From an Underground special on Dezeen.
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos:
"Joanneum Museum extension and refurbishmentInternational Competition 1st Prize 2006Surface and DepthThe ground surface, the horizontal platform upon which most of our movements in the city occur, is very rarely the generating argument or the spatial support of a project. Perhaps as a result of that yearn for an identity that every new intervention seems to demand, architecture has tended to express itself throughout history by means of objects, volumes that have often established a difficult relationship with the scale of the urban environment in which they were inserted. In contrast, the extension of the Joanneum Museum emerged from the intention of acting within the strict limits of the horizontal plane of the city, offering a new public space based on an architectural proposal that is paradoxically simple in its depth and complex in its surface."
I find this approach inspiring and innovative. To me it questions what surface i am walking on, what am i walking on? It reminds me very much of Kevin Lynch's manifesto: Image of the City (1960) in which he breaks the city down into its elements such as; paths, nodes, landmarks, boundaries.
Which this approach, you really begin to question it as a user, the path, is this a path? a roof? what are the boundaries, does are these buildings linked ect. It sounds simple knowledge, but its something we don't appreciate enough. A journey in the city now is just the place inbetween where you are and where you want/have to be next.
The new proposed enterance was commissi by the surrounding 3 museum buildings, Museum of Natural History – from the 18th century –, the Regional Library of Styria and New Gallery of Contemporary Art, 19th century.
Large cones diffuse natural light and which is contrasted by shadows created through shade.
There is a sense of horizontal journeys through the underground structure but perforated openings on the ceiling offer views from above.
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