DIA Museum is a proposal to house a collection of contemporary art on the West coast for the Dia Art Foundation. Located within the heart of Los Angeles among icons such as Ahmanson Theatre, Rafael Moneo's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, and Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Dia Museum was constructed to create its own aura of permanence in amidst these greats. Utilizing the philisophies and the personal understandings of Architect Tadao Ando as precedent, The Museum conceives around a main programmatic bar with three gallery bars to house the artwork. The "in between spaces" and the northern courtyard return the visitor to nature through garden space as well as open up the galleries to invite natural lighting to enter. The fenestrations made to bring light into each gallery has been designed so that while inviting the natural in, the artwork would remain untouched.
First Floor
Second Floor
Third Floor
Fourth Floor
Section 1
Section 3 + 4
Section 5
