Bauhaus museum Weimar
Weimar, GER
The commissioned task was to plan a new building for the Bauhaus Museum, Weimar at the Weimarhallenpark, which is located in direct proximity to the former Gauforum.
The competition entry reacted both to the specific urban situation and to the historic and local connections between the Bauhaus and its representatives.
The ground floor has been planned as an open, developed landscape. Above it, the exhibition rooms are suspended as a canted volume, defining the forecourt and the main entrance as a physical canopy construction. The museum is integrated into the existing urban structure, and interwoven with it in spatial terms. Inside, the building is cloven into “canyons”, which make reference in their orientation to the domain of the Bauhaus, modernism and its personalities.
This creates an abstract interweaving of the building with historical events regarding the Bauhaus movement.
Daylight is guided into the interior and differentiated through the “canyons”. The exhibition areas have been planned as black boxes without daylight, and are interconnected via bridges which lead over the “canyons”.
- Location
Weimar | GER - Year
2011 - Typology
Cultural Buildings - Status
Unbuilt - Awarding Authority
Classic Foundation Weimar - Procedure Type
International Open Competition - Team
Roger Christ I Julia Christ I Sascha Daum I Costa Krautwald
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