Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi Veiga
02/08/2016.
[Chur] Switzerland
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The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise of integration within an urban ensemble. Despite the stringent limitations of the plot, the design strives to minimize its exterior volume by inverting the program’s logical order. Hence, a new public space is generated that incorporates the garden that surrounds the Villa and is integrated with the gardens of the nearby buildings.
Exterior view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Exterior view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Exterior view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Exterior view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Exterior view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Exterior view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Exterior view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Exterior view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Exterior view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Inside view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Inside view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Inside view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Inside view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Inside view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Inside view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Inside view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Inside view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Inside view. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga. Photography © Simon Menges.
Location floor plan. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga.
Entrance floor plan. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga.
Basemente floor plan. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga.
Facade. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga.
Long section. Bündner Kunstmuseum by Barozzi&Veiga.
The Office of architecture Barozzi&Veiga have been responsible for this extension. Establishing a clear dialogue with the original Villa, the volume is stripped of any superfluous element and covers its facades with brick of concrete square pieces, clear oriental inspiration like ornament Villa Planta.
Description of the project by Barozzi&Veiga
This programmatic reversal consists of situating the exhibition spaces below ground level, in such a way that the emerging volume, above street level, contains only the public access spaces. The volume’s reduced footprint makes it possible to extend the existing garden and improves the cohesion of the ensemble.
The extension is understood as an autonomous building, independent from the historical building, even though the design’s main efforts are aimed at reinterpreting those concepts that allow an architectural dialogue to be established between the two buildings in a clear and coherent relationship that is a continuum between the Villa Planta and its extension.
This dialogue between the new and the old buildings is based upon the equilibrium that exists between their classical structures, a clear reference to the Palladian influence in Villa Planta, and to its ornamentation. As for their spatial organization, both buildings present a central symmetrical plan and both use geometry as a tool for cohesion. In the extension, this classical configuration also makes it possible to simplify the structural system and to organize the exhi- bition halls on the lower levels.
As for the ornamentation system, the Villa Planta’s ornaments speak of the Oriental influences of its origins, while in the extension, the compositional system of the facades reinforces its expressivity and autonomy with respect to the Villa. Each building displays its own identity, based on common principles (structure and ornament), to reinforce the idea of a whole.
The process of the purging of superfluous elements which began with the designs for Piloña and Lausanne reaches a point of maturity in the Bündner Museum. Here, the design strips away everything that is not structure, construction and programmatic division, all united in a single whole.
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Architects
BAROZZI / VEIGA. Fabrizio Barozzi , Alberto Veiga
Project leader
Katrin Baumgarten
Project team
Paola Calcavecchia, Shin Hye Kwang, Maria Eleonora Maccari, Anna Mallen, Verena Recla, Laura Rodriguez, Ivanna Sanjuan, Arnau Sastre, Cecilia Vielba
Local architect
Schwander & Sutter Architekten
Project manager
Walter Dietsche Baumanagement AG
Landscape Architect
Paolo Bürgi Landschaftsarchitekt
Structural engineer
Ingenieurbüro Flütsch
Services engineers
Waldhauser Haustechnik AG-Brüniger + Co. AG-Niedermann Planung GmbH
Façade consultant
x-made SLP
Lighting consultant
MichaelJosefHeusi GmbH
Museum expert
BOGNER.CC – die museumsplaner
Building physics
Kuster + Partner AG
Area
4,000 sqm
Date
2012-2016
Fabrizio Barozzi, Alberto Veiga. BAROZZI VEIGA
Fabrizio Barozzi born in Rovereto (Italy) in 1976. He currently lives and works in Barcelona.He graduated as an architect in 2003 by the University Institute of Architecture in Venezia. He completed his training in 1999 at the School of Architecture of Seville in 2001 while living in Paris.
He began his training partner in 2003 working as the office of William Vázquez Consuegra and later in 2004 is associated with Alberto Veiga and establish their own professional studio.
He has been Professor of Projects at International University of Catalonia in Barcelona from 2007 to 2009 and since 2009 is Associate Professor of Projects at the University of Girona.
Alberto Veiga (Santiago de Compostela, Spain), was born in 1973 and studied architecture at the School of Architecture of Navarre. After graduating, he worked as an assistant and planner in Patxi Mangado practices in 1997-2001. From 2001-03, he worked as a designer of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, where he worked on a number of projects awarded. In 2004 he settled in EBV Architects with Fabrizio Barozzi. Projects currently teaches 3rd year at UIC.
EBV Architects is an architectural firm located in Barcelona and founded by Fabrizio Barozzi (Trento, Italy, 1976) and Alberto Veiga (Santiago, Spain, 1973) devoted to architecture, urbanism and interior design. The experience accumulated over the years in collaboration with renowned architects has allowed prestige EBV start a professional career where independent research plays a major role. The study EBV and has been awarded with many awards nationally and internationally.
