museum Tower

New York, NY
2007

arquitectum competition entry

Team: Michael Miller, Charles Valla

Competition statement:
The challenge of this competition is the installation of a new monument to celebrate the cosmopolitan, urban and global character of New York City.
To this end, this project (a 100 meter‐high tower) will house a museum that will display the personal effects, souvenirs and photos belonging to a new generation of immigrants who –from 1960 onwards– arrived in the city in search of the “American Dream”.

MM and CV:
This “American Dream” is first and foremost made possible because of an established system with a minimum amount of rules and regulations to develop an organism that will hold together.
We propose to build a naked steel structure: a framework for construction. Containers, planes and volumes are then incorporated in this network as possible and as needed. Expansion is chronological: the tower grows from a direct reading of the program.