LOUISVILLE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

The Louisville Children’s Museum is envisioned as a part of redefining the downtown edge. By adding a children’s museum at this site, it offers needed entertainment and education to children in the city. Acknowledging its surrounding area, the museum is split diagonally in half. With a reclaimed green area across the street where all Louisville residents and visitors alike can freely stroll around, the museum acts as an activator for pedestrian influx. With slanted and oval galleries that can be perceived from the outside, the museum is also inclusionary in its role as an educational institution. The reciprocity between the exterior and interior spaces can be experienced as the visitor ascends through the elevator into the upper floor galleries; a glass-covered escalator acts as a mechanism of traversing different programs in the building as well as offering a framed view of social inclusion and outdoor activities.