Chicago Children's Museum

Chicago Children's Museum AOS, AOS mission is to create a community where play and learning connect. Museum, main AOS audience is children up through fifth grade including their families, along with school groups and communities that support and influence children, AOS growth and development. At the current location at Navy Pier, the Museum has no meaningful connection to the outdoors and be challenged by commercial heavyly environment from what has become Illinois, AO's most popular tourist attraction.

Based on the competition winning entry, Krueck + Sexton designed low profile, building elegant porous organic and integrated into Grant Park, similar to the inseparable relationship between tree roots and soil. New child, AOS Museum will replace some of the underground parking garage there, making it possible to trace the entire project remain park land. Understood as the gateway to Grant Park, and on axis with the Buckingham Fountain, which parkscape on the roof of Chicago Children's Museum AOS offers a road, a new universally accessible gracefully leads to Park, who is 16, AO below street level.

Inside the museum, weaving architecture and landscape combined with an ideal orientation of the South facade of the main building offers an abundance of openness and exposure to daylight. Fourteen of learning and experience play a museum gallery, which is placed along a series of spiraling ramps and the floor level area. Atria to expand to all levels of galleries offers the chance to climb the structure and design exhibitions that target physical activity of children.

Sustainable integrated system will be included throughout the museum, and made visible by visitors to the museum as part of the exhibition design where possible. These include old and proven methods such as natural ventilation and open windows.