Two Museums by William Morgan, United States

Abstract

The national museum of florida, in Gainesville. The structure has been developed horizontally and occupies a beautiful plot with a great number of paths, open squares and gardens. The ground floor is occupied by the research premises of the social and natural sciences with laboratories and storerooms. On the first floor are the actual exhibition rooms of the museum, experiment rooms, TV installations and preparation rooms. In the gardens a part is reserved for open air exhibitions. There is also a path which runs through the entire area and which is accessible at all hours and in all directions and which thus constitutes a place of relaxation within the university complex in which it is integrated. Children´s museum in Jacksonville. It is situated in a public park, at the St. John river with the lowest level at 1.20 m above ground level, so as to avoid the disastrous consequences that can be caused by the frequent floods of the area during the hurricanes. It consists of four blocks, at right angles, with three stories which contain respectively the premises of the Planetarium, arts, sciences. Basically the construction of both buildings is of reinforced concrete in vertical.