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  • Balboa Park Committee Meeting | APRIL 7, 2016 Workshop Item Attachments
    Balboa Park Committee Meeting | APRIL 7, 2016 Workshop Item Attachments Project: Renovation + Addition to Mingei International Museum Location: House of Charm, Balboa Park Architect: LUCE et Studio Architects, Inc. Balboa Park Committee Meeting | APRIL 7, 2016 Workshop Item Attachments Project: Renovation + Addition to Mingei International Museum Location: House of Charm, Balboa Park Architect: LUCE et Studio Architects, Inc. PROJECT SCOPE + ASPIRATIONS A.) Open the museum to the Park Augment existing entries to provide additional access to a Civic Living Room for Park and the City. A full museum floor of galleries, a library, store, restaurant, education space, and sculpture court free and open to the public. Plaza de Panama Alcazar Garden PLAZA LEVEL not to scale N Balboa Park Committee Meeting | APRIL 7, 2016 Workshop Item Attachments Project: Renovation + Addition to Mingei International Museum Location: House of Charm, Balboa Park Architect: LUCE et Studio Architects, Inc. PROJECT SCOPE + ASPIRATIONS B.) A new interior multipurpose space A flexible multipurpose space for lectures, films, dinners, and other events fills in the existing, non-functional loading dock space. COLLABORATIVE LEVEL not to scale N Balboa Park Committee Meeting | APRIL 7, 2016 Workshop Item Attachments Project: Renovation + Addition to Mingei International Museum Location: House of Charm, Balboa Park Architect: LUCE et Studio Architects, Inc. PROJECT SCOPE + ASPIRATIONS C.) Add public landscape space at the sculpture court A Sculpture Court above the multipurpose space provides a new public niche to find repose within the park. In addition, the sculpture court opens directly to the Plaza level and cafe and can be used for private events and the installation of temporary exhibitions.
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