CHAPTER SIX, THE CLOSING.
Written By: Celeste Moore
As I conclude this book with the final chapter, I'd like to tie things together from each and every chapter that's featured in MOCA The Space. From the first through third chapter, I introduced the topic and focus for this book. How space is the most important thing to not only MOCA but many museum's in this world. The aesthetics have been brought up multiple times along with explanations on why the creators of this building decided to make this museum about some kind of learning experience while staying interactive with the pieces and the room they're in (the space). I've also touched down on the exterior of MOCA and how the openness the museum has shown with the wide windows in the front of the building is a way to also draw the visitors in. That every little piece in that museum, every decision made, and where everything will be placed was all carefully placed in each corner in order to give off that open space feeling. Making it much easier for the visitors to roam around and be able to enjoy their time. The aesthetics of MOCA is will forever draw more and more visitors in and even thought that's what I covered mostly in this book, it's still very important and it can not be stressed enough that even though some exhibits looked empty in a way, there was still a good amount of detail and it's been appreciated and taken into consideration as a recent visitor of the museum.
I'd like to end this book with one last quote from Blue Steel, something that can be ended well and leave the readers to think about visiting the museums, to study the space and the pieces surrounding it. To just observe their surroundings and try to take in a different experience that can make things much more interesting and enjoyable. "This combination of geometry and materiality results in a building with a vivid personality. It stands there at the intersection on Euclid constantly changing due to the ambient effects of both natural and electric light. Indeed the stainless steel seems to magnify different colors at different times of day. The structure evokes contemporaneity both in the sense of new design thinking and engaging with fleeting moments of time. The surrounding plaza, stretching north-east towards one of Saitowitz's buildings, is planted and paved in geometric patterns by New York-based landscape architects, Field Operations. There is a service entry from the south, from the side street; otherwise the ground surface extends contiguously about the museum" (Blue Steel. Architectural Review, no. 1389, Nov. 2012, pp. 30–39. EBSCOhost).
