What we regarded as important:
… to allow the roofscape of the old town in Regensburg to flow into the building
… to develop the building from the town’s finely chiselled morphology, so to speak allowing it to grow out of this morphology
… to incorporate the scale of the town as a whole but also the development structure of the particular area under consideration
… to respond both to the mighty flow of the Danube, along whose banks the silhouette of Regensburg rises, and to the shipping traffic
… to find a structure that mediates between the two opposites, the small scale structure of the development and the roofscape and the large scale horizontality of the river
… to generate this structure in such a way that it can both relate to the narrow gable fronts of the existing buildings by folds that resemble gables, but can also develop a large canopy roof facing the Danube and the ships that extends as far as the line of the Österreicherstadel and can shelter large areas of the weekly Danube market from the weather.
… and to understand this structure as a roof structure whose various folds upwards depict the different room heights required for the permanent exhibition and whose downward folds – in an oscillating game played around the horizontal “zero line” described by the roof – can form loggias, viewing areas and “south light spouts” for the Danube market
… to create a moderate height for the eaves line along the river bank that can preserve its upper edge despite the taller roofs behind needed to meet the requirements of the brief