This way they repeated the icon but with contemporary materials (glass, perforated mesh and reliefs from overlapping metal plates). Thus the "ornament" is no longer functional for only ornament (the windows and doors are adapted to the new dimensions derived from the new requirements). The facade is pure stage, but in this case does not determine the relationship between building and public space. The industrial building is totally versatile, neutral, to accommodate various derivative uses of the future museum (in addition to managing the resources as well and cover solar, natural ventilation and sun exposure ...). LUCK AND CONGRATULATIONS!
MEMORY + IDENTITY:
A dialogue between vernacular and contemporary.
Enlargement’s exterior skin is conceived as a reflection of the existing façade; it borrows its scale and its representativeness and transforms it into a multilayered sunscreen by means of using an assembly of contemporary materials. Openings and relationship to inner spaces is freed from compositional restrictions.
THE STREET DESIGNED AS A SOCIALIZING SPACE: THE PLACE TO MEET:
Alcázar public space comes inside the museum and goes all the way around; it becomes a street that links the existing building and its enlargement. The entrance hall belongs to a public domain, is a continuation of it.
VERSATILITY, CHANGEABILITY:
Exhibition halls are in fact multipurpose rooms; they are conceived as neutral spaces and designed as highly fitted out containers based on lighting changeability, a modularized system of moving walls and highly efficient energy saving parameters.
in METALOCUS.
"Being Rem Koolhaas" | PKMN.
published in: M-027 | AA.04. | p. 36
"Faked ArchID’S" | PKMN.
published in: M-027 | AA.04.[2] | p. 40