It will be erected in the Bicentennial Park, which will be renamed the Museum Park. The design of the museum building is inspired by the buildings on stilts in Biscayne Bay, on the shores of which Miami is located. The lightweight three-story volume placed on the platform will be closely linked to the surrounding natural environment. Its wide roof, protruding far beyond the walls of the building, will be supported not only by slender supports, but also, visually, by trees characteristic of the area.
Swiss architects point out that Miami has a very interesting climate and vegetation, and that these features are played very little in the local architecture of the modern period. Climbing plants will even get inside the museum halls, the galleries themselves will be as transparent and light as possible. While the Miami Museum has a very small permanent collection, its new director, former chief curator of the architecture and design department of New York MOMA, Terence Riley, plans to significantly expand its collection. Therefore, the plan of the new building provides for changes in the exposition and even - in the future - in the size of the building itself.
The complex includes a café, a shop, a library, an educational center and an auditorium, which are mandatory for every new museum.
The connection of the project with nature is not limited to planting trees around the building: it can serve as an example of "green" architecture. In particular, groundwater will flow through the supports into the ceilings, cooling the spaces under the roof. Also, the new museum will be able to resist the typical hurricanes, storms and squall winds typical for this region.
The project, according to Riley, is not final. Now he and the architects are waiting for the reaction of the citizens of Miami to finalize it in collaboration with the townspeople.
