Living in the new and unreal world of technology and computers, we realize how much humans are separated from nature, which means the actual connection between our soul, brain, and body to the real and touchable environment and experiencing in-person connections. Since birth, we have a special connection with nature and so we realize that nature gives us feelings of peace and happiness. Staying close to nature makes us feel alive from the inside and it reduces stress, depression and, negative emotions and it improves our mental, physical, and spiritual health condition., Ultimately, it gives us motivation and hope in life. To explore the architectural implications of these ideas, I have designed a Museum of Art in Washington DC, beside the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens of water lilies. In my project, I propose how to stay in touch with nature as a visitor who is walking through each part of the museum. From each exhibition room to the next, there is a break to a special view of nature and water to take a deep breath of fresh air. This also makes the viewer understand the artwork inside before entering each room. Bringing outside nature to the inside and creating a connection between the viewer, view, and artwork gives the visitors a break from the world of technology and makes them connect to the blue and green world which is integral with human nature. The connection between the site and the building makes the viewers feel at home when they are exploring the exhibition rooms to see the artworks since nature is our first home. This is how my design explains my thesis as you are walking through this heavenly art world. / Master of Architecture / Living in the new and unreal world of technology and computers, we realize how much humans are separated from nature, which means the actual connection between our soul, brain, and body to the real and touchable environment and experiencing in-person connections. Since birth, we have a special connection with nature and so we realize that nature gives us feelings of peace and happiness. Staying close to nature makes us feel alive from the inside and it reduces stress, depression and, negative emotions and it improves our mental, physical, and spiritual health condition., Ultimately, it gives us motivation and hope in life. To explore the architectural implications of these ideas, I have designed a Museum of Art in Washington DC, beside the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens of water lilies. In my project, I propose how to stay in touch with nature as a visitor who is walking through each part of the museum. From each exhibition room to the next, there is a break to a special view of nature and water to take a deep breath of fresh air. This also makes the viewer understand the artwork inside before entering each room. Bringing outside nature to the inside and creating a connection between the viewer, view, and artwork gives the visitors a break from the world of technology and makes them connect to the blue and green world which is integral with human nature. The connection between the site and the building makes the viewers feel at home when they are exploring the exhibition rooms to see the artworks since nature is our first home. This is how my design explains my thesis as you are walking through this heavenly art world.

Les musées d’art exposent leurs œuvres selon les modalités de curation et l’architecture même du lieu. Ce mémoire en recherche-création interroge le rôle de médium de l’espace d’exposition en s’appuyant sur un double cadre théorique : les approches matérielles des études médiatiques et la muséologie (études muséales et curatoriales). Les nombreuses spécificités du musée rotond en font un cas particulier récurrent et pertinent pour analyser la manière dont ces courbes spécifiques de l’espace muséal agissent sur l’approche curatoriale d’une exposition et l’expérience qui en découle pour le visiteur. À travers la forme médiatique qu’est le guide d’exposition, il s’agit d’explorer la présentation sur une feuille rectangulaire d’un espace d’exposition circulaire. Trois espaces significatifs font l’objet d’une étude de cas et définissent le cadre de création : la galerie des Nymphéas au Musée de l’Orangerie (Paris, 1927), le Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, 1959) et la Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection (Paris, 2021). Ce mémoire en recherche-création expérimente la dimension médiatique de l’espace rotond par un processus de remédiation du guide d’exposition qui vise à retranscrire matériellement la circularité de ces lieux. Animée par l’analogie entre le circulaire et l’insulaire et investissant leurs modes de représentation, j’y conçois un outil de médiation qui accompagne le visiteur dans sa découverte spatiale du musée rotond et au-delà, le promène dans une itération archipélagique, d’un cercle muséal à l’autre. Chacun des trois musées rotonds de ce pèlerinage offre un fragment de l’expérience à collecter qui, au fil des visites, formera par assemblage l’itinéraire complet et accompli d’une médiation au sein de lieux à l’exposition circulaire. Navigation inédite dans l’archipel Rotonda pour composer son Museario rotondo. Par une approche non-linéaire, tant dans l’aspect théorique et conceptuel que méthodologique, je m’intéresse aux interstices du rotond interrogeant matérialités, possibilités et affordances du circulaire. De l’histoire du rond dans un carré. / Art museums exhibit artworks according to curation methods and the architecture of the building itself. This art-based research thesis questions the medium role of the exhibition space using a double theoretical framework: materialist approach in media studies and museum studies paired with curatorial studies. The numerous specificities of the circular museum convert it into a special case, recurrent and pertinent to analyze the way these specific curves of the museum space act on the curatorial approach of an exhibition and the related experience for the visitor. Threw the media object that the exhibition guide is shaping, the purpose here is to explore the presentation on a rectangular sheet of a circular exhibition space. Three indicative spaces form case studies and define the framework for the creation phase: the Water Lilies Gallery at Musée de L’Orangerie (Paris, 1927), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, 1959) and the Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection (Paris, 2021). This art-based research thesis experiments with the media dimension of the rotunda space by remediating the exhibition guide in order to transliterate materially the roundness of those places. Motivated by an analogy between circularity and insularity and investing in their representation forms, I design a mediation tool that guides the visitor in his spatial discovery of the rotunda museum and beyond, walks him threw an archipelagic iteration, from a circle museum to another. Each of the three rotunda museums of this pilgrimage offers a fragment of the experience to be collected which, over the visits, will form by assembly the complete and accomplished itinerary of a mediation within places of circular exhibition. Unprecedented navigation in the Rotonda archipelago to compose the Museario rotondo. Through a non-linear approach, as much as in the theoretical aspect as conceptual and methodological ones, I am interested in the interstices of the rotunda, questioning materialities, possibilities, and affordances of the circular. About the story of a round in a square.