英语翻译
The abstract block being studied on a small scale in the contextual model was a diagram of the program's components.Functions were grouped into above-grade and below-grade categories; those above grade were further split into gallery (low zone) and "other" (high zone).The areas were compared and the uses assessed for stackability (convenience and appropriateness).This analysis of the program produced a stacking diagram to complement the one in the program illustrating plan relationships.
The consequence to the exterior is its potential to articulate parts of the building,giving scale and animating a silent block to welcome the visitor.The facades of classical museum buildings resolved this design issue with stone pilasters or colonnades,empty or statuary-filled niches,and blind windows.This philosophy of movement was to fully evolve in the subsequent design of the East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington,D.C.Architectural critic Wolf von Eckhardt was quoted in an article on the Johnson Museum in Museum News,September 1974,as saying it is "a perfect museum You don't suffer museum fatigue,because the gallery spaces vary in size and height.There is always a point of rest—a place to look out the window or some other little 'intermission'."