"Betile" Museum competition - Zaha Hadid wins!

[cristianocani]

The 2004 Pritzker Prize Zaha Hadid wins the international architectural competition for museum of mediterranean nuragic and contemporary art!

The project for the museum at Cagliari (Sardinia - Italy) dedicated to Nuragic and contemporary art aims to make known and underline the value of an ancient civilisation that is as fascinating as it is little known.The richness of the remains from the Nuragic age, their variety of form - that ranges from small bronzes to large stone statues uncovered at Monti Prama, near Oristano (West Sardinia) - the force and originality of artistic expression that characterises them, compared by some to the finest from the twentieth century avant-garde, are yet to be fully understood and appreciated.






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Project Idea:

The new museum, that represents a new and original solution both in terms of programme and spatial characteristics, should address the following challenges:
1. The Museum should function as a reference point for other places in Sardinia and the Mediterranean famous for Nuragic art, first and foremost the Archaeological Museum at Cagliari. Participants should therefore carefully consider the presence in the Museum of galleries and spaces destined to inform the visitor of the whereabouts of Nuragic settlements in Sardinia (one of the main aims of the new museum will be that of encouraging the visitor to discover other museums and centres for artistic research present in the region) and the Mediterranean basin. In the same way, the public will be immersed in a network of geographical references relative to institutions and places dedicated to the production - in Sardinia and the Mediterranean - of contemporary art.
2. The new museum should house a workshop for comparison and experimentation that brings together Nuragic and contemporary objects and works of art in unusual ways.This comparison will constitute the very essence of the museum's exhibition and research programme.The building should contain spaces - exhibition areas, multimedia areas, workshops - to hold works of very different sizes (such as, in the archaeological sphere, bronzes or large Nuragic statues); spaces to house for example multimedia installations of visual art alongside Nuragic statues; spaces able to help the public appreciate the relationship between the serial and the individual dimension of the works on show.
3. The museum should offer a varied exhibition route that creates aesthetic tension and interaction between the works with their historic context. Participants should propose cognitive-perceptive ways of interpreting and passing through the spaces of the museum that enable exhibition routes to be articulated on different levels and at different speeds, considering both a rapid and brief vision as well as a deeper and more analytical one with the infinite individual combinations that each visitor can create between these two extremes. The museum should be a container open to different kinds of public with each visitor the conscious creator of their own spatial and temporal route through the sequence of spaces.
4. The museum should be set up as a place for production, research and experimentation regarding relationships between Nuragic and contemporary art. With this in mind, participants should provide spaces where invited curators and artists can discuss their proposals confronting specialists from other disciplines and encountering students and researchers or can show their ideas to a broader and in some cases more distant public. Participants should also think about the presence of workshops and ateliers for carrying out restoration of Nuragic art and producing contemporary works of art.
5. Finally, the new museum should represent an engine for urban regeneration for the city of Cagliari.The presence inside and around the museum of reception and entertainment spaces for visitors and tourists as well as those living in the city can help the museum establish itself as a gateway providing access and visibility for the island. Participants should therefore pay particular attention to the access to the museum and the relationship between indoor and outdoor spaces.The sequence of public spaces (entrance hall, bookshop, media centre, bar, restaurant, conference hall, commercial areas...) should be designed in such a way as to be coherent with the spatial, cultural and economic context that surrounds the new building.

[Eletrix]

GREAT!!

[Erebus555]

That looks awesome. Zaha Hadid is becoming the hottest architect of the year possibly the decade.

[six453]

any fotos of the other entries?

[cristianocani]

The model...




for other photos… wait the opening of the projects exposition of the finalists of the competition (2-3 weeks)....

[cristianocani]

The complete project

Full text (english)

[909]

Excellent design. In some way it looks organic, in another way plastic, but it will be futuristic.

[Erebus555]

That looks really cool. Some designs I see look like the architect has screwed up the piece of paper and opened it back out and finally got their idea. But this is great. So sleek. I'm in love...

[earth intruder]

amazing! I love Zaha Hadid's buildings!

[T0M]

WOW! Love it!

[LuckyLuke]

Great! Unfortunately Hadid's buildings usually don't look like on the renderings

[Halawala]

Wow! Zaha Hadid grows in my eyes day after day! She is the best architect of the mellinium. This proposal reminds me of a skull.

[satit28]

i really like the free-form shape....engineers must be really good....

[Ampsicora]

up!

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[august88]

whoa, looks like an alien space station er something. kinda freaky, but i like that.

[Gordion]

WOW

[elgoyo]

Originally Posted by LuckyLuke

Great! Unfortunately Hadid's buildings usually don't look like on the renderings

I completlly agree, the material they used in the render looks kind of like a shiny white plastic, in reality it isnt gonna look like that

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by august88

whoa, looks like an alien space station er something. kinda freaky, but i like that.

Great piece of architectural design, but i fear that Zaha Hadids preference for bleakly materials could give this building the look and charm of a subway station.

[lpioe]

Amazing design.