Nieto Sobejano wins the competition to design the Vannes Museum of Fine Arts

The result of the competition for the new Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Vannes, France, has been announced. The winning entry was the proposal by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos (with offices in Madrid and Berlin) teaming up with associate architect Richard Faure.

The design proposes an extension of the Chateau de L'Hermine, which is characterized by its boundary condition, having been built in the 19th century directly on the ruins of the walls erected in the 14th century.

Exterior view, rendering of the new Vannes Museum by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

The new extension designed by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos generates a public space inside the city walls between the medieval perimeter and the houses of the historic centre by means of a longitudinal volume that adapts the slopes of its roofs to the irregular geometry of the surrounding context.

The old castle will be restored and rehabilitated respecting its original architecture, while the extension materializes in a metallic skin that unifies the whole and dialogues with the historic buildings while transforming the image of the museum in the city.

The new Chateau de L'Hermine Museum, with a total area of 2,700 m², will be integrated into the historical context of Vannes, through an intervention aware of the need to create public spaces for the use of citizens, provoking a dialogue between contemporary architecture and the memory of the place.

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Model, rendering of the new Vannes Museum by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

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ARQUITECTOS NIETO SOBEJANO

Fuensanta Nieto (Madrid 1957) and Enrique Sobejano (Madrid 1957), are graduated architects by the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM) and Master of Science in Building Design por la Graduate School of Architecture and Planning (GSAPP), Columbia University, New York (USA). Are partners of the office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, with headquarters in Madrid and Berlín.

Enrique Sobejano is Design Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (Germany) and Fuensanta Nieto Fuensanta is an Design Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Both have been guest professors and lecturers at various universities and institutions within and outside Spain. From 1986 to 1991 was Director of ARQUITECTURA magazine, of Official College of Architects of Madrid.

Sobejano Nieto's work has been published in numerous magazines and books in Spanish and international, such as Casabella, METALOCUS, The Sketch, Architectural Review, Domus, Architectural Record, Detail, A + U, etc, and has been exhibited, among other places, Venice Biennale (2000, 2002, 2006) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (2006). They have received the National Award for Restoration of the Ministry of Culture (2008), the Nike Prize BDA (Bund Deutscher Architekten) (2010) and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (2010).

Among his recent works include Madinat al Zahra Museum (Córdoba), Moritzburg (Germany), Colegio de San Gregorio (Valladolid) and the Conference Centres of Mérida and Zaragoza.

NIETO SOBEJANO ARQUITECTOS: http://www.nietosobejano.com