Museum Design | Wings Museum | AS + GG

A simple but arresting image from nature–a bird skimming over the surface of a body of water–was the inspiration for this prototype of a museum on a lake or ocean harbor. With its wings unfurled as if in midflight, this powerfully poetic structure is an evocation of the natural world at its most graceful, dynamic, streamlined and ecologically interdependent.

That inspiration, combined with concepts from automobile and product design, has been developed into a sculptural, asymmetrical form echoed in its interior by two great atria that feel equally organic........more