The museum, as a new centerpiece, adopts a negotiating position among its iconic neighbors – the Nationalgalerie of Mies and Scharoun´s Philharmonic – with its publicly accessible roof which helps to connect urban spaces that are currently undefined.
A group of prismatic volumes is arranged around a porticoed patio that functions as distributing element and gives access to the museum, divided into two distinct sectors: the exhibition area and the events and educational spaces...
The museum consists of a series of functional blocks, housing the exhibition program, and the voids generated between them, that become gathering places and establish contact with the exterior. A large void vertically connects the three public level
A vertical structure that rises on top of a buried level supports a faceted and rotated volume – of the same height as St. Matthew’s Church – which articulates the adjacent free spaces: that of the Neue Nationalgalerie and of Scharoun Platz...
In contrast with the facade’s permeable character, the unidirectional structure of the load-bearing walls and cores gives a bold image to the museum’s interior, which is partially developed in height to engage in dialogue with the urban context...
A series of courtyards, glass facades, and double-height exhibition spaces define a permeable ground floor that connects the public space with the museum’s program; on top emerge three volumes that are visible from afar...
A light glass facade wraps the new museum, transformed into a winter garden where the public program spaces are surrounded by local vegetation; the structure is minimized to stress the transparency and permeability of the building...
El proyecto convierte el difícil emplazamiento en su punto fuerte y se divide en cuatro sectores en aspa que lo relacionan con su contexto inmediato: la Neuenationalgalerie de Mies, la Filarmónica de Scharoun, la plaza de la iglesia y la carretera...
The building’s suspension generates the central element of the project: a void that preserves an existing tree and creates a plaza where the outside path ends; the underground level houses the exhibition spaces in a large hall...
Two spiral staircases run through the building vertically: from the restoration workshops and offices, located in the top floor, to the permanent exhibition in the basement; the level of access becomes an extension of the public space...
A low-rise pavilion of organic forms functions as a modern agora that gathers the circulation and meeting spaces, as well as those for temporary exhibitions; the permanent collection is kept in the basement, organized around an orthogonal structure..
The latest addition to the Berlin Kulturforum goes up between the Philharmonic of Scharoun and the Neue Nationalgalerie of Mies van der Rohe, designed as a large gabled volume with multiple accesses that replicates the materiality of the nearby Matth
