Betile museum
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Herzog & de Meuron's scheme is based - in memory of Beuys - on the notion of a broad new tree-lined landscape, conceived to connect the area of the new museum to the old city centre. The museum building is concentrated in a tower almost 63 metres tali with a square shaped pian whose up per half is fragmented into cantilevered floors projecting outwards in ali four directions of the compass. The structure of the building is made with in situ concrete with a raw concrete facade whose surface, made irregular by the use of special shuttering, recalls the stones of the Sardinian landscape. With aggregate made from loca I stones (such as trachite found in the area) the concrete is intended to evoke the chromatic qualities of the Nurages, taking on slight colour variations according to the originai colour of the stone used.
lnside, the space is organised in a series of galleries, most of which are design ed as closed spaces, artificially lit. Some specific galleries have openings created by the folding of the walls outwards, allowing light to filter from below. The flexibility required by the museum brief gave rise to the idea of Anchor Rooms, spaces that enable the museum to be experienced as a curatorial topography with a seri es of exhibitions on set themes. The Anchor Rooms are the foca I points of the museum a round which are organised the exhibition galleries, workshops, galleries for multimedia installations and interstitial spaces.
[From "Published with Domus 899 January 07 - Sardinia: landscapes of the future p.47"]
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International architectural competition for museum of mediterranean nuragic and contemporany art - Project selected
Architects: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Stefan Marbach
Project architects: Jayne Barlow, Iela Herrling
Design team: Henrike Elsner, Franciso de Freitas, Andreas Fries, Stefano Rabolli Pansera, Maria Angeles Lerin Ruesca, Sara Secci, Claudia Zipperle
Associate architect: Studio Professionisti Associati
Structural engineering: WGGSP
Mechanical engineering: Stokar & Partner
Published in Sardinia:landscapes of the future - Domus 899 January 2007
Client: Regione Sardegna
Area: 40.000 sqm
Cost: € 40.000.000
Project date: 2006
