Type:
Public Buildings
Location:
Dessau, Germany
Year:
2015
Client:
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Surface:
5500 m2
Phase:
Competition
Team:
SdARCH Trivelli&Associati
Alhadeff Architects
In 2019, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus with the opening of the Dessau Bauhaus Museum.
The project proposal of SdARCH for the new Museum is geared to create a compromise between the open system of the city and the park, through the exhibition of the works. An urban building, strongly related with the city, which can represent the Bauhuas culture as urban culture in continuity with the history and the context in which it appears.
Its simple and compact structure, made up of volumes open towards the park and the city, gives the building a solid appearance but visually permeable creating a spatial transition system between the built and the green of the park system.
On the ground floor, the view of the park and the city, creates a continuity between inside and outside, between the organized activities and free activities in the green space; the park becomes a spatial extension of the museum.
The internal spatial organization is fluid and flexible, the installation of the permanent exhibitions is continuous, on two floors, with temporary exhibitions, allowing multiple installations.
The exhibition facilities are designed with large structural elements: permanent exposition is the large volume diagonal bridge to support the roof, while the volume of temporary suspends on highlighting entrances. This arrangement has allowed us to leave the free plan from other partitions, being spatially defined only by empty, the housing and movable partitions. The horizontal distribution space is, so always a space intended to accommodate activity and not only a link, so as to always perceive the continuity of the space of relation.
The construction systems and installations will be oriented to define the maximum environmental sustainability both in terms of energy consumption and in terms of use and choice of the materials used. The openings are optimized to reduce the summer loads and create spaces with natural light dynamic and efficient throughout the year.
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