Angel McQuade
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Cultural Museum
Project Type
Museum Retrofit
Location
Los Angeles Arts District
This project transforms an industrial warehouse into a cultural museum that honors and elevates a historically marginalized culture. Through adaptive reuse, the design preserves the raw character of the existing structure while introducing architectural interventions that express identity, pride and resilience.
The spatial organization and massing of the museum are carefully crafted to reflect the lived experiences and layered history of its people, moving visitors through a narrative journey of struggle, celebration and continuity. Exhibits unfold within sculpted volumes and transitional spaces that symbolically represent cultural milestones, community rituals and collective memory.









