Morphosis Architects designed the Perot Museum in Victory Park in Dallas Texas, completed in 2012. The city fragments as the visitor enters, with tree canopies and free form gardens bringing him back to nature. From this atrium the visitor enters the main building.
The main building is very similar to other Morphosis projects, a rectangular chunk with horizontal texture and long slivers of sparse windows. The stony veneer advertizes the museum’s emphasis of nature, and the flowy curvature of stone hearkens to the geographical qualities of the region.
The visitor proceeds straight to the top and overlooks to city for a final reminder of what the built environment looks like, and then he delves down into the exhibits of nature that proceeded it.
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