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Art Pavilion M. / Almere

 

Art Pavilion M. Almere, The Netherlands. 2020-2021 First Prize, Invited competition

 
 

Art Pavilion M. is a museum of Land Art and Multimedia, designed for the waters of Weerwater in Almere (NL). We imagined the museum as a sequence of frames: The Port encircles a water plaza, to be curated and cultivated, where art can be displayed, music played, and birds and plants observed from the ring. Like a port, barges may dock its outer perimeter, and visitors can arrive by boat. It functions as a public space on the water when the museum is closed, where one can swim or fish, and as a promenade to the museum during opening hours. The Stage, a second circle, is the terrace of the museum, within the ring. While performing as the day-to-day museum’s terrace, the platform can become a stage on water, a place for performances, concerts, or outdoor exhibitions. The Observatory is a lightweight timber and polycarbonate structure enclosing the exhibition rooms, reflecting and filtering the shades of the water and the surrounding vegetation like a greenhouse. It is fully enveloped by a curtain where cut-out shapes allow light to filter through in different ways, creating a facade made by light, and is oriented on a north-south axis, follow- ing planetary alignments: the four windows look at the dawn and dusk axis of winter and summer solstices, while the roof is covered in shells, filtering rainwater, offering a buffet to the birds of Floriade. A site-specific material research has been developed for the project, resulting in the Surf and Turf Terrazzo composites, with local species of shells and horticultural supplies.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


TEAM Giovanni Bellotti, Alessandra Covini, Daniele Ceragno, Mariagiulia Pistonese, Lyuba Viller, Aina Rocha, Pedro Daniel Pantaleone COLLABORATING ARCHITECT Goldsmith Company CLIENT Gemeente Almere en Provincie Flevoland PROJECT DIRECTOR Denise de Boer TECHNICAL TEAM Piet Goud, BDG Architecten, Bart Ruijs, TDS Ingenieursbureau Boorsma B.V. PROJET MANAGER Lian The, Rob Dirkson, ToorendPartners CONSULTANTS Ahmet Topbas, Peter Mensinga PHOTO Riccardo de Vecchi

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