Museum design

The museum is dedicated to the memory of the old "Sirga Way", which is the ancient way of sailing along the river. The main house has been reformed to accommodate a class of nature. The secondary house contains the museum, creating a new cover, with the slope towards the river, as the houses were built in ancient times. In façade the old stone walls had been recovered. The main hall of the museum is a single open space in which the walls are left as they are, in order to see the evolution of the house over the years. You can see the additions to adapt the house to different times. The space is designed to become part of the museum. The visitor began the tour by entering in the room, illuminated by optic fiber points on the ceiling, si... More

Architects: MACA Team: Christian Álvarez, Jorge Garrudo, Tomás Suarez Location: Leganés, Madrid. Size: 4000m2 Date: November 2011 Type: Competition Proposal Visualizations: www.vvv-visual.com The proposal for the new Sculpture Museum of Leganés is the result of setting a few specific objectives to accomplish: -The importance of providing appropriate exhibition spaces: Although the starting point when facing the project was the recovery and use of the building that currently houses the Sculpture Museum, the analysis of its state, its architectural value and the potential forced us to reject that option : the current museum hasn´t got the spatial and functional requirements needed. The new building provides qua... More

“The dynamics of line and surface define the templates that create architecture and organisations. In the making of form it is not only shape that counts but the rules and interior logic by which such contours are derived”. _Cecil Balmond We wanted to build from first principles and our own prescriptions of form based on interior dynamics that grow they own logic. The approach is to accept as irreducible the notion of complexity; a holistic view, one that is different from the traditional methods of drawing sections and plans and then extruding or patching them to make buildings. A form is not only a building but can be viewed as structure or sculpture-any organisation that interrogates space in new ways. How to integrate a 100 m high... More

The architectural concept in the design for the NAMOC is based on uniting dualities; past and future, day and night, inside and outside, calm and dynamic, large and small, individual and collective. The two volumes of the building reference ancient Chinese 'stone drums', large drum-shaped stones bearing inscriptions in ancient Chinese. The exteriors of the two volumes are illuminated by art projections, creating a vast media facade as a contemporary translation of the ancient stone drum inscriptions. Whilst the architecture of the museum is represented by the ancient artifact of the stone drum, the art within represents its spirit, or its “essence”. In the same way that the agile strokes of ink in a Chinese painting give spirit to a bl... More

The proposal plans to solve all the functional requirements of a museum, making the most of the circulations, the sustainability and integration of the building in its environment and at the same time creating a recognizable icon, a representative building worthy of the importance of the museum, The formal and constructive references will come from the environment, native materials, the landscape and the scale of the existing buildings. The chosen site respects practically all the existing woodland, minimizing the number of trees to be eliminated within the possibilities that allow the construction of a building on this scale and functional complexity. We will join together the principal spaces, “compacting” the building and maintain... More

Innovative architect Zaha Hadid, who in 2004 became the first female recipient of the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize, has advanced the vocabulary of contemporary architecture and design through the exploration of complex fluid geometries and the use of cutting-edge techniques and manufacturing technologies. For this exhibition—the first in the United States to feature her product designs—the Iraqi-born British architect has created a sculptural environment for a selection of furniture, decorative art, jewelry, and footwear that she has designed in recent years. This exhibition emphasizes the continuous nature of her work, reinventing the balance between objects and space in an interior landscape. Sleekly curving sofas, tables, and lou... More

To achieve the objectives of an architecturally iconic museum of art with versatile art exhibition spaces in a highly sustainable project this proposal defines the concept of art exhibition beyond the conventional “stuffy” notions of uniformly rectangular, windowless interior galleries. Instead, the project provides both interior and exterior venues for a variety of public experiences, and creates the opportunity for day-lighting and sustainability in ways that are unprecedented for art museums. Building and landscape architecture are intrinsically designed as a unified, iconic expression in which the configuration of the proj¬ect is strongly reactive to the site context of park, river, canal, train station and other urban elements. The... More

The establishment of new institutions as a framework for regeneration provided the opportunity for us to open new integration links to the existing urban fabric. In this light, our proposal abstracted the particularities and contradictions that seemed to segregate Bjørvika from Oslo’s city centre. At the time, they coexisted in a shared history which didn’t correspond to the city’s present understanding of itself. The new Opera transforms the area. Isolated, it is an urban island, with its own topography, which presents a problem of integration. Our proposal was based on superimposing a mathematical constraint onto a new city vision, established in a masterplan that could only be projected onto the existing urban fabric. It is the... More

The renovation and expansion of the Erie Art Museum, which opened in October 2010, redefined the museum as a recurring destination for the community. With a goal of obtaining gold LEED certification, the building will be the first LEED designed project in Erie County. The project provides the museum with an innovative and recognizable building image consistent with the organization’s mission and goals. The museum, in addition to exhibiting curated art in a gallery environment, has always supported environmental art in installation settings. The addition provides the museum with a building identity reflecting this value. The project, located in downtown Erie, includes a new entry and public space, new spaces for permanent and traveling e... More

BIX is a matrix of 930 fluorescent lamps integrated in the acrylic façade on the east side of the Graz Art Museum in Austria. The brightness of each of the lamps can be changed at a rate of 20 frames per second, which means that images, films and animations can be displayed. The ideal light sources for this particular application were high-performance circular LUMILUX fluorescent lamps from OSRAM.The BIX concept was initiated and developed by realities:united, a Berlin-based group of artists and architects. Because this concept did not come from a local office it had to be incorporated in the planning work at short notice. The integration process was a challenge for a number of reasons, but particularly because BIX was a new element that co... More

Situated in Au-Di, Taipei County, the Next Gene Architecture Museum emerges naturally from a steep sloping hill, its dynamic presence harmonizing with the surrounding landscape and embedding into its natural topography. A structural system incorporating conic walls, gives the interior a distinctive character – the interstitial spaces created by each creating a fluid circulation system which extends seamlessly from inside to outside areas. The museum serves both to contain architectural exhibits and to serve as an architectural landmark itself. Distinctive perforated patterns on its outer skin allow natural light to enter according to movement of the sun via non-uniform apertures, effectively shifting light density in accordance with the... More

Our concept envisages the museum as a ‘node of cultural exchanges’ – as a structure which serves as a seaward landmark for the city of Cagliari and, through a network of public paths, interconnects and shares its public dimension with the urban centre it serves. Geometrically aligned with the sea, the ‘Nuragic’ also extends its arms towards the quarter of S. Elia. This building equates to a ‘coralline concretion’ – empty inside, hard and porous on the surface, yet able to accommodate, through its continuous osmotic exchange with the exterior, a range of cultural activities and experiences. At times it assimilates to the ground, creating a new landscape, at others it acquires a strong mass, defining a new skyline. The openness and dy... More

The Riverside Museum is derived from its context. The historic development of the Clyde and the city of Glasgow is a unique legacy. Located where the Kelvin joins the Clyde, the museum’s design flows from the city to the river; symbolizing a dynamic relationship where the museum is the voice of both, connecting the city to the river and also the transition from one to the other. The museum is situated in very context of its origins, with its design actively encouraging connectivity between the exhibits and the wider environment. The building, open at opposite ends, has a tunnel-like configuration between the city and the Clyde. However, within this connection between the city and river, the building diverts to create a journey away from... More

This building proposal challenges the traditional definition of a museum and the conventional relationship between building and site. The ground floor of the building is reduced to a nominal footprint, enclosing only enough space for basic services, structure and ticketing functions. The ground plane is primarily reserved for exterior public space, including an art park, Hall of Fame, and garden walk. The bulk of the program and building mass are split by the open ground floor. Half of the building is coupled with the earth while the other half hovers in the air. The purpose is twofold; to minimize the damaging effects of extreme local weather by harnessing environmental flows toward productive outcomes and to re-conceptualize the identity... More