In response to the Guggenheim’s request to re-imagine the space of its iconic New York museum in a drawing that would be auctioned, Amale Andraos and Dan Wood found inspiration in the “Lazy River” feature of an Aspen water park they had just visited. The Flow Show, rendered in cross section, turns the Guggenheim ramp into a water slide and transforms the continuous ramp into a sustainable element that uses rain filtered through thick roof-top vegetation. The existing small eye-shaped pool at the bottom of the rotunda served as inspiration too, pointing to Guggenheim architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s obsession with nature and the organic. Building on that obsession, the Flow Show fills the entire museum with water to create a new kind of art viewing experience. Water-themed art would also be on view, with Koons’ aluminum lobster and Monet’s Water Lilies encountered as one would slowly swim down.

Despite its lightheartedness, the Flow Show reinforces the modernist proposition “form follows function,” while expanding the functions invited by the seminal form of the Museum.