Triton Museum of Art
Santa Clara, CA

The Triton Museum of Art by Barcelon & Jang serves as the primary cultural center for the City of Santa Clara.  The new facility holds Triton’s permanent collection, changing exhibition galleries, administrative offices, a 200-seat lecture hall, and a children's "art reach" program.  The museum building is composed of interconnected geometric forms dominated by a skylit rotunda entry and custom pyramidal skylights in the galleries.  Upon approaching the Triton Museum from the Civic Center, the visitor is guided through a gentle sloping ramp flanked by palm trees towards a prominent rotunda entry.  Subsequently, this rotunda is the organizing element that orders the visitors' procession through the museum.  Its form generates the curving glass arcade, which provides the soft outer edge that mediates the indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces.