The study consists of the tandem Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga, with an office in Barcelona, have again won a competition for a museum in Switzerland: the Bündner Kunstmuseum in the city of Chur, capital of the canton of Graubünden. Last year were also the first prize for the seat of Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne.
The project defines a simple and compact volume that sits naturally in the built environment. The autonomy of the building in respect to adjacent buildings reinforces the importance of the garden in the new museum and set the new museum gives a noble and understated presence.
The project builds on the original geometric guidelines Villa Plant and axially provided with it. The compositional pattern is symmetrical and centered also exported to the new building. This clear link geometric and perceptual inextricably linked with Villa's new plant extension.
The block diagram, clear and precise, is organized by two parallel vertical cores, which also constitute the main structure of the building. An open gate to indicate Grabenstrasse access to the new museum. A bright open staircase will provide access to garden and light to the exhibition spaces and services of the entrance area arranged in the lower levels.
The permanent collection is organized in a sequence of well proportioned rooms, some lit from above, arranged in the lower class and linked to the narrative sequence of Villa Ground. A single large space, interrupted only by vertical communication cores split in a flexible, organized in the second lower level spaces for temporary exhibitions. Villa plant spaces, minimal interventions apart to hold the cabinet graphic and adapt the library and administration in the lower deck, remain unchanged.
An abstract low relief, consisting of prefabricated concrete modules pearl gray, oriental motifs inspired by the Villa will shape all of the exterior walls by putting in relief once again the independence / originality of the extension of the new museum.
CREDITS.
Architects. Barozzi Veiga Study: Fabrizio Barozzi, Alberto Veiga.
Collaborators.- Maria Eleonora Maccari, Kwang Hye Shin, Verena Recla, Cecilia Rodriguez, Arnau Sastre. Landscaping: Landschaftsarchitektur. Studio Bürgi. Baumanagment: Walter Dietsche, Baumanagment AG. Museumplaner.- Bogner.CC KG. Technical facade: X Made, Miquel Rodriguez.
Client.- City of Chur.
Surface.- 3,156 m²
International contest 2012. First Prize.
Site.- Chur, Switzerland.
