Case Study 1: Louvre Museum: Jean Nouvel

The opposite forces acting upon each other within the building's two main formal components allows for a unique spatial condition that establishes an experiential enclosure separate from site context. Cohesion of dome and exhibition spaces are done not within the typical formal understanding but rather metaphorically, by the layers of penetrating lights that cast and masks the museum interiors, blending any formal variety into one visual uniformity. As individuals are pulled completely from the site, the experiencing self is immersed completely and fully within the sensorial realm of the architecture. All formal characteristics are blanketed into one collective perception. The minimal gesture of the dome, encompassing the museum, aids in the experiential fluidity and the effects becomes one that pulls the fragmented thoughts of those experiencing the space into one collective understanding.