MAD Architects releases new renderings of the Lucas Museum’s public loggia

Antonio Pacheco

7 years ago

The museum will contain rooftop gardens in an effort to replace some of the plantings taken up by the new structure. (Courtesy Lucas Museum)

The Lucas Museum’s three-story block of continuous galleries will sit atop a pair of piers that frame a central public space. (Courtesy Lucas Museum)

Oblique view of the proposed Lucas Museum showing ground level public spaces. (Courtesy Lucas Museum)

The two entry pods for the new museum will frame a central loggia space topped by an oculus. (Courtesy Lucas Museum)

Ground floor public spaces will contain various types of public programming like a restaurant and movie theatre space. (Courtesy Lucas Museum)

The glass-clad entry chambers will frame the loggia space; image above shows entry to theater. (Courtesy Lucas Museum)

Site plan for new Lucas museum showing transplanted soccer field and re-worked landscaping around the new museum. (Courtesy Lucas Museum)

NBC Los Angeles has released another collection of new renderings for the MAD Architects–designed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

While The Architect’s Newspaper published several of these new renderings back in May, the latest release includes three new images depicting the public loggia located between the building’s two main entry pods.

Ground floor public spaces will contain various types of public programming like a restaurant and movie theatre space. (Courtesy Lucas Museum)

The renderings depict a series of bubbling masses rising from the surrounding parklands with what appear to be metal panel-clad bubbles and domes stretching up out of the ground. At one end of the loggia, the bubbles conceal a restaurant space; on the other, they shelter entries to a library and digital classrooms.

At the center of the loggia, the building’s mass rises to its crescendo, where it is capped by a central oculus. The dome’s descending pendentives frame the complex’s two main, glass-clad entrances. One end of the loggia contains entrances to an amphitheater while the other end leads to the museum’s principal entrance. The oculus above is framed in glass curtain walls, allowing visitors to see below from above. The inside of the entry spaces is clad in wood paneling, similar to MAD Architects’ treatment for the Harbin Opera House in Harbin, China.

The glass-clad entry chambers will frame the loggia space; Image above shows entry to theater space. (Courtesy Lucas Museum)

The Lucas Museum is expected to begin construction in September of 2018 and open in 2021.