For the building’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited nearly two hundred artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space for the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, which is on show at the museum through April 28. For more information, visit the online exhibition.
The Guggenheim’s spiral gently ascends around the central void. To accentuate the experience of the geometric warping of space, we propose extending the spiral inward using reflective mylar. Stretched from the top and bottom of the guardrail toward the center of the void, a tensioned cable keeps the reflective membrane taut. The new spiral surface reflects the museum in its own geometry.