Welcome to the RE-EXPLORATORIUM studio wiki.

This will serve as home space for our course work and also as a subject for reflection, as its very availability offers new options to a museum such as the Exploratorium and to its physical architecture.

The Exploratorium, San Francisco's groundbreaking Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception (http://www.exploratorium.edu/), is about to move from its historic location in Bernard Maybeck's Palace of Fine Arts to a Pier along the city's waterfront. This is an occasion to meditate on a host of complex architectural issues, for a real project with a real program, client and site.

The studio will meet with administrators and curators at the museum and visit present and future sites as part of the process of investigating this unique institution's architectural potentials. The Exploratorium is unprecedented in its exhibits and the manner in which they are developed and presented. Housed currently in a building adapted to its use, it is now transitioning to another adapted site at an urban threshold.

Projects therefore require a response and attitude towards a history of museum architecture, towards the display and explication of scientific knowledge, and to relations between art and the sciences.

The studio will propose new modes of study and display that exploit synthesized models of physical and electronically-mediated architectures for the museum.