Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts

Type
Museum

Address
Potsdamer Straße, Berlin, Germany

Area
26,600 m²

Client
Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Local consultants
Wuttke & Ringhof Arkitekter

Year
2nd prize in international design competition 2016

The proposal merges the city and the museum, creating an innovative meeting that challenges the formal borders between everyday life and the traditional introversion of a museum.

The organic idiom at the ground level respectfully adapts to the various centers of gravity of the city’s cultural and historical urban fabric, creating well-defined urban spaces that greet the multi-directional flow of Berlin. The orthogonal underground structure interprets and exposes the pre-world war footprint of the site, while providing a robust and flexible framework for contemporary exhibition activities.

Rather than seeing the overall fragmented and multi-layered appearance of the area as a formal obstruction, it is incorporated as a vital nourishing element in the overall narrative of the proposal.