The gardens of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon were designed by landscape architects Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles and António Viana Barreto and completed in 1969. With the extension of Kengo Kuma, it will be added to a place located to the south with an area of more than 8,000 square meters . It is expected that the expansion will be open to the public in 2021.
In addition to intervening in the gardens, the Kengo Kuma project will create a new access with two panels of white ceramic and wood of 1,600 square meters next to the south facade of the building that now houses the Modern Collection, which will simultaneously see its increased exposure area in about 700 square meters. New entrances to the garden, south and west, and new connection routes to the foundation and museum buildings will be created, always "fully respecting the architectural values of the foundation," Gulbenkian says in a statement.
The contest launched by Gulbenkian had four main objectives: the expansion of the Gulbenkian Garden; the definition of a new entrance to the south; the creation of a garden area that was integrated with the landscape design of Viana Barreto and Ribeiro Telles; a solution to access from this new space to the Modern Collection building and other basic spaces; and the expansion of the area of the collection.
Unanimously, in a jury composed of the architects Emilio Tuñón, Gonçalo Byrne, , Luís Ribeiro (landscape architect) and two administrators of the foundations, the proposal presented by the architect Kengo Kuma, associated with the landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic, was chosen.
The competition presented proposals from other architects, such as Inês Lobo, Patricia Barbas, Pedro Domingos, Aires Mateus, Less Is More (Francisco Vieira de Campos + Cristina Guedes) and SAMI (Inês Vieira da Silva + Miguel Vieira), along with John Pawson , Tatiana Bilbao, Carla Juaçaba, Junya Ishigani and Christ & Gantenbeim.
In addition to intervening in the gardens, the Kengo Kuma project will create a new access with two panels of white ceramic and wood of 1,600 square meters next to the south facade of the building that now houses the Modern Collection, which will simultaneously see its increased exposure area in about 700 square meters. New entrances to the garden, south and west, and new connection routes to the foundation and museum buildings will be created, always "fully respecting the architectural values of the foundation," Gulbenkian says in a statement.
The contest launched by Gulbenkian had four main objectives: the expansion of the Gulbenkian Garden; the definition of a new entrance to the south; the creation of a garden area that was integrated with the landscape design of Viana Barreto and Ribeiro Telles; a solution to access from this new space to the Modern Collection building and other basic spaces; and the expansion of the area of the collection.
Unanimously, in a jury composed of the architects Emilio Tuñón, Gonçalo Byrne, , Luís Ribeiro (landscape architect) and two administrators of the foundations, the proposal presented by the architect Kengo Kuma, associated with the landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic, was chosen.
The competition presented proposals from other architects, such as Inês Lobo, Patricia Barbas, Pedro Domingos, Aires Mateus, Less Is More (Francisco Vieira de Campos + Cristina Guedes) and SAMI (Inês Vieira da Silva + Miguel Vieira), along with John Pawson , Tatiana Bilbao, Carla Juaçaba, Junya Ishigani and Christ & Gantenbeim.
