and as we talked about it david r.j. and fill in the designers said we know that's also an angle that you see in some you room a sculpture in your room a pose. i started to kind of think about the museum is this crown form. it became very clear that this triple header. was actually a beautiful weapon capsulated. i really love the idea even just the she was in. a sort of. i have an unusual sort of relationship with the history because i have been writing about the history of an effort to to build a national museum in my dissertation so i've been very carefully following sort of what had been going on in congress various sort of public and private initiatives to start start the museum. this is a museum. containing. hundreds here it was demanded dismissed. site no collection no money. today it stands. in the middle of washington d.c. the national museum of african-american history and culture. slavery in freedom is a very large exhibition as you can tell. where it's a large time period that we address. fifteenth century loo

pedestals and so this sort of deconstructs i think you know that the design that you know that david david r.j. is the lead designer of the team sort of came up with really begins to unpack and deconstruct that and gives it a different sort of presence on the mall and. this is one of the first sketches to find the front. of the building. this is this was cool. option three. which was really looking at the notion of the pavilion building on the landscape so this is really explaining this idea of the upward force and lights filtering and this building within a building it's a shape that you don't often see in western architecture and i'm hard pressed to think of another building that has that explicit a shape that is moving upward and aspirational that celebrate tory above ground so these are the early studies which looked at how we were kind of controlling the program as you can see from the project in the end there's a lot on the ground and in the beginning we were trying to bring quite a bit of the program above ground to try and reduce costs so we were looking at how that could work as lands