ITA Architetcure: museum

giovedì 25 agosto 2016

ASTERISK

ASTERISK

Entrance

In a Swiss valley, the municipality asks for a new museum able to attract people from all around.
The shape takes the design from a polar array of a block, shaped like a pitched roof house, that creates a courtyard building. Thanks to this kind of arrangement all the functions are arranged around a circular path that allows to have a continuous way to enjoy the museum, thus entrance and exit coincide.
The pitched roof shape of each block is designed to integrate the mass of the museum in the context, made of detached country houses, also the material of the facade, corten steel, evokes the color of the surroundings.
Furthermore all the functions are located in order to have a correct sunlight, indirect for the galleries and direct for the hall and the public functions where people stay. All the galleries are located from the North-East to North-West in order to control the temperature inside them to preserve the integrity of the artistic installations.

Diagrams

Night view

Exterior

From the galleries

Axo

Plan

Architect: ITA
Type: Competition
Location: Arbedo-Castione, Switzerland

Year: 2016

domenica 7 febbraio 2016

HYPERPUSH MUSEUM

HYPERPUSH MUSEUM

Exterior view

The museum have a multi purpose program which comprises private expositions and public area. The project takes into consideration the quality and the light’s needs of the different functions, so, thanks to his shape, all the galleries have an indirect illumination that comes from the North or zenital. At the same time the living spaces as the hall, the bar and the free lobby are exposed to the South and so they receive a warm light during all the year. The museum is located at the center of the site to isolate himself from the noise of the streets and also a green park is planned in the South side where the noise is stronger as a natural frontier. The concrete ribbon facade allows to have some interiors spaces totally without natural light for the multimedia rooms, the projections room. The exterior space is set up to have a large square in front of the main hall and a path that invites pedestrians to come at museum walking through the park. So, the light, warm or cold, direct or not, become part of the museum such as the art inside.