The design proposal in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles is a Museum of Contemporary Japanese Art. The intention is the fluctuation of spatial and geometrical qualities to delineate and branch each level into a piece of a larger story. Datum lines create an arrangement of rectilinear, triangular, and mixed shapes that vary in technique. Fluctuating qualities converge into the fluidity of spatial connections through a series of folded moves throughout the design. 

Plans and sections showcase the scaler differences in space with openings above and below created through the previously mentioned arrangement of space through datum lines. Relating to the overarching theme of delineation, plans show the long paths of circulation needed before traversing to the next floor, allowing the user to take in the elements of each level before proceeding. 

By compositing most programs along the basement, first street, and plaza level, the galleries can freely dance around the architecture. The architecture subtly enters to guide the user from gallery to gallery, often creating double-height spaces with contractive and expansive elements between them in connecting spaces together. All in the conceptual belief that a museum tells a story hidden through the experience of traversing gallery spaces, dramatized through spatial elements. 

Overall the design branches from a set of datum lines to contract spaces with rotations, leading into expansive areas through subtractions, and perimeter-oriented circulation to curate the user’s experience into a delineation of travel between floors. The design lives as a culmination of sequential pieces to form one piece of folded, rotated, and subtracted circulation