Offener Wettbewerb | 04/2013
Neubau Museum der Bayerischen Geschichte
Teilnahme
Architektur, Bauingenieurwesen
Erläuterungstext
The site for competition reunited various plots and a road into a single plot. If the project had used all the available space, Truzengasse street would become a dead-end street. We decided to divide the plot into two different blocks in order to maintain Truzengasse street connection to the river.The program asked to give the different programs an independent life, and creating a street where all of them could be accessed from floor level seemed the better way to both serve the museum and the city, creating an alive center of the museum project within public space. The different programs include the bavariathek (multimedia library), a typical Bavarian food restaurant, and temporary exhibitions area, cocktail space and conference room.
The project reinterprets public middle-age buildings of big volumes and sloping roofs like Saltzstadel and the Altes Rathaus, both key in the city architecture. A modern twist is given to their very sober geometry by changing the size of main façades and therefore creating an irregular prism, with fewer but larger windows.
The museographer path is conceived as a stroll turning clockwise around the auditorium and facing either north to the Danube either south to the museum’s private garden. By turning, visitors get to each different level dedicated to a different program, up to the highest one, which contains the program called “the future of Bavaria”. The future of Bavaria has been designed as a particular space in mezzanine, allowing direct visual connection to the cathedral spire, the sky and the 1/1 scale reproduction of the Bavarian parliament on the level below.
The hall is a full-height unheated volume (20m height), from which we can access both permanent collection and temporary exhibitions through a footbridge crossing the street. Visitors ending the visit reintegrate this volume at the higher level, getting a particular perspective of the hall and going down through the museum shop. Once out, we can directly admire and stroll towards the Danube as the project changes the topography of the square, suppressing level barriers and creating a one-slope square.
The project reinterprets public middle-age buildings of big volumes and sloping roofs like Saltzstadel and the Altes Rathaus, both key in the city architecture. A modern twist is given to their very sober geometry by changing the size of main façades and therefore creating an irregular prism, with fewer but larger windows.
The museographer path is conceived as a stroll turning clockwise around the auditorium and facing either north to the Danube either south to the museum’s private garden. By turning, visitors get to each different level dedicated to a different program, up to the highest one, which contains the program called “the future of Bavaria”. The future of Bavaria has been designed as a particular space in mezzanine, allowing direct visual connection to the cathedral spire, the sky and the 1/1 scale reproduction of the Bavarian parliament on the level below.
The hall is a full-height unheated volume (20m height), from which we can access both permanent collection and temporary exhibitions through a footbridge crossing the street. Visitors ending the visit reintegrate this volume at the higher level, getting a particular perspective of the hall and going down through the museum shop. Once out, we can directly admire and stroll towards the Danube as the project changes the topography of the square, suppressing level barriers and creating a one-slope square.