Invited competition proposal for the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Luther Burbank Center, Sonoma, CA.

This new 7,000 sq ft museum building proposal is adjacent to a freeway and provides an opportunity for the façade to serve as visual icon for the institution. Responding to a driver's perspective from the road, the building's surface data of text, color, and architectural openings emerge legibly, only to fully recede from a different position.

Using redundant layer of metal tubes, the façade's surfaces pulsate with changing visual hot spots. The tubular skin can be sculpted to create varying surface depths, and due to geometric laws of tubular stacking, it is everywhere unique. As an intelligent skin, the exposed west side of the building provides its own shade to reduce solar gain. The entire building is raised above a linear strip of glass to perfectly aligns site lines from interior courtyard visitors to views of automobiles bodies beyond - the effect is of a building lightly hovering upon flows of visual movement.