The Museum Living as an Organism
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With an eye toward a sustainable renovation, NMHM Chicago has acquired an existing building in downtown Chicago to house the new museum. Built in 1933, the three-story, 25,000 square foot masonry structure would undergo a dramatic, cutting-edge transformation led by Chicago-based design firm Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture.
Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill Architecture envisions a new kind of museum that is itself a living organism: both metaphorically in keeping with the museum’s theme and content, and literally, as the high performance building will actually generate its own sustainable energy.
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Fluid, Sculptural, Dynamic Spaces
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NMHM Chicago will take advantage of 21st century technology to create a museum experience that is completely flexible. Virtually every interior surface of the building will be able to display visual and audio data, allowing visitors to view individually customized exhibit content as they move throughout the building. This dynamic cofigurability will result in an unprecedented museum experience.
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Flexible, Customized, Evolving Learning Experience
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The exhibits themselves will take full advantage of the dynamic configurability of the museum’s architecture and state of the art systems.
As visitors enter the exhibit space, they can check out headphones with integrated RFID chips and make a selection from a variety of virtual exhibits. As they move through the space, their presence will be detected and tracked, sending a signal to the display surfaces to configure to the specific content selected by that user. This will allow two visitors walking through the museum just moments apart to see completely different exhibits in the same locations throughout the building.
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A High-Performance Sustainable Solution
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The project will be an exemplar of green retrofits of existing buildings—a specialty of AS+GG, which is currently involved in a similar undertaking at Chicago’s Willis Tower, formerly known as Sears Tower. When completed, NMHMC will be a state-of-the-art sustainable facility that takes full advantage of cutting-edge systems and strategies for maximum energy performance.
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