The Museum of UnNatural History: A Proposal for a New Cloning Wing at the Natural History Museum
Mabel Pei-Cheng Wu (Year: 2)
As we enter the Anthropocene, the Natural History Museum should be the place where we understand and learn from the past to debate and plan the future of the natural world. This museum adds new cloning laboratories with in the NHM galleries, bringing historical life forms in close proximity to future ones. The laboratories are accompanied by debating chambers, and libraries which encourage a wider public engagement with issues of man-made nature, and our un-natural future.
The collage shows the new debate space in the Human Biology Hall and the periscope intervention that would connect the view to the cloning lab and the cloning library.
I explored material mirrors, formal mirrors, and periscopic mirrors for my museum.
the periscope intervention forms the different rooms, and the cloning programs will be connect to the new entrances by cutting out the facade.
This axonometric shows my museum as a periscope object and its relations to the original building.
The section shows the periscopic connection between the library, lab, debate space, and the lower ground floor.
This view shows the relationship between the existing natural history collection and the debate space. The back of the periscope will show closeup footages of people cloning in the lab.
This collage of the new lab shows how the mirror allows view of other spaces along the periscope, such as the debate space, which will also be flipped up-side down by the mirrors.
