Reflective Room at The Manchester Museum

An exciting new temporary structure - Reflective Room - is currently being constructed in The Manchester Museum's courtyard, due to be completed by 6 July 2010. It was chosen as the winning design in a competition between 5th year Architecture students from the Prototype and Re_Map studio units at the Manchester School of Architecture (msa). The Courtyard Project invited the students to design an environment within the Courtyard space outside The Manchester Museum's entrance to align with the summer programme and exhibitions and to form part of the preparations for the major redevelopment of the Museum's Animal Life 1 (mammals) gallery, closing in September 2010 and reopening in May 2011. A shortlist of five proposals were selected and developed further, a summary of which you can see on display at the Museum. Dr Nick Merriman, Director of the Manchester Museum, said 'Reflective Room is a great example of collaboration between the Museum and the students and staff of the School of Architecture in the University. It will bring real interest to our otherwise rather deserted courtyard, and I very much hope that it will be the first of a series of installations in this space'. The Design Team from the Prototype unit led by Matthew Mills includes: Adam Atrakzi, Mark Bonshek, Spencer Fretwell, David Kent and Anna Parker.