Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts

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.

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