V&A Boilerhouse Yard
The need for additional space for major exhibitions at the V&A
suggests a strategy for future expansion and reorganization.
Instead of filling courtyards with multi-story museum spaces, we
propose liberating courtyards that are currently filled in with
single level structures and utilizing the underground spaces
beneath them. In this way, we provide new outdoor spaces for museum
visitors, open up historic interiors, and create a new underground
network of spaces - accessible from multiple points within the
museum - for exhibitions, conservation, exhibition preparation, and
storage. In addition, we propose a new East-West axis for the
V&A that extends from Exhibition Road to the historic heart of
the Museum in North and South Courts.