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Bahaus Museum - Dessau
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Bahaus Museum - Dessau
Our entry for the design competition for a new Bauhaus Museum, in Dessau, Germany, focused on the legendary school’s idealistic vision of new guild-like collective of art and design. We gave form to this idea through a cluster of linked volumes, constructed out of concrete and steel mesh, which expressed and exalted the school’s various disciplines. Engaging the monumental and personal, and playing notions of building against those of architecture, the cluster is a contrapuntal composition of spatial surprise. Its volumes and voids create a continuum of space that flows through the museum, linking it to its park site and the surrounding city.
We organized the museum’s temporary exhibit space and workshops around highly visual communicative axes to present the institution not simply as a repository of history but as a contemporary — and possibly futuristic — experience. Flanking the entrances from Friedrichstrasse and Ratsgasse, these volumes invite the community to engage and participate. We placed the permanent exhibition space within the central volume, which is constructed out of translucent concrete, to both shade delicate artworks and emit light. Every view is calibrated to give the visitor a harmonious sense of the vitality and variety of the multiple disciplines exhibited. Glowing within the cluster, it serves as the heart of the museum. Every view within the building will also reveal the park, which will function as a compass and contrast to the exhibitions. No protected trees will be disturbed by the construction, and existing memorials are integrated into the new landscape design.
We organized the museum’s temporary exhibit space and workshops around highly visual communicative axes to present the institution not simply as a repository of history but as a contemporary — and possibly futuristic — experience. Flanking the entrances from Friedrichstrasse and Ratsgasse, these volumes invite the community to engage and participate. We placed the permanent exhibition space within the central volume, which is constructed out of translucent concrete, to both shade delicate artworks and emit light. Every view is calibrated to give the visitor a harmonious sense of the vitality and variety of the multiple disciplines exhibited. Glowing within the cluster, it serves as the heart of the museum. Every view within the building will also reveal the park, which will function as a compass and contrast to the exhibitions. No protected trees will be disturbed by the construction, and existing memorials are integrated into the new landscape design.
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