Unlike airports and hospitals, the museum offers a more complex experience for the public. It works as media for visitors to explore their own journey. The paths are variable, but should at all times allow the visitor to understand their position within the museum. 

 

In this project, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum is the site of this thesis. It is an ideal place for this study because it has undergone four major expansions over 130 years; the structural type and the circulation path are counterintuitive and complex. It grew with the Rhode Island School of Design campus in a haphazard and disjointed way. With its relationship to the Rhode Island School of Design and status as the preeminent art museum in Rhode Island, the RISD museum has a crucial educational responsibility. 

 

The key strategy of this project will be using a minimum intervention to approach a maximum spatial effect, as well as developing a systematic scheme that could be applied to various conditions within this building and beyond, in other public areas where visitors are unfamiliar with the building and desire a complex experience within the space.