NAMS

dimitris — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:40:55 +0000

NAMS dimitris Tue, 12/10/2019 - 11:40

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Keywords

Archaeology, Culture

Type

Competition

Location

Sparta, Greece

Client

Region of Peloponnese

Status

Submitted

Size

12.000 m²

Team

D.Zoupas, G.Zoupas

Description

The new Archaeological Museum of Sparta comes together as an amalgam of several design decisions and restrictions. The available plot for erecting the main volume of the new building is confined in the area north of the existing building, thus making the new volume more of an extension , rather than a free-standing edifice. The nature of the assignment becomes automatically to define the relationship between the two - old and new - both in terms of functional organization and morphological association. As an extension to the built complex, it ihas been crucial from the outset to define ways in which the surrounding, exterior spaces of the Museum establish a strong presence in the overall visitor experience.

Above all the rest however, the effort to interpret the museological study in built form has been the driving force of the design. It is around this arrangement of different rooms varying in geometric features and elevation that all other functions of the Musuem gather - and it is through this interplay that the Museum assumes its final form. The museological experience of the inside finds its counterpart on the organization of the external spaces, an archaeological open-air exhibition of existing antiquities and mosaics.

Aerial View

W View

NE View

Masterplan

Entrance

Lobby

Exhibition Area

S Elevation

W Elevation

Corridor

Ground Floor Plan

1st Floor Plan

Exhibition Area

Section

W View

SE View

The New Cyprus Museum

dimitris — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 11:11:33 +0000

The New Cyprus Museum dimitris Sun, 02/05/2017 - 13:11

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Keywords

Archaeology, Culture

Type

Competition

Location

Nicosia, Cyprus

Client

City of Nicosia

Status

Submitted

Size

30 000 m²

Team

D.Zoupas, K.Karagianni, G.Zoupas

Description

The Archetypical Archaeological Shed, everpresent in archaeological sites and excavations has been a point of reference for the design of the New Archaeological Museum of Cyprus. In our case, it is not the site of actual findings per se that we want to shelter, but the vast collection of the Cypriot Archaeological Treasures. Hence, the size of our Shed becomes equivalent to the size of the collection and its enormous importance. Under this big roof we also give shelter and provoke public attention to yet another aspect of Cultural Heritage and of contemporary archaeological practices, the preservation of present-day History and Memory. Rather than a side, phantom - project, the incorporation and re-programming of the existing Historical Building assumes a highlighted importance in our design.

The New Museum seeks to establish a unique presence in its urban surroundings, creating a new, strong Cultural Destination within the wider area of the City’s Cultural Quarter. Through its architectural form and orientation it aims to strengthen its relationship with the existing Old Museum, as well as the other public buildings in the area.
In particular, the connection between New and Old Museum becomes very strong and consequently a dominant parameter in designing both the new building and the public area between the two. It is this relationship, as well as the relationship to the adjacent Park and the House of Representatives that led to a decision to openup
the building towards its East and North boundaries, while keeping it less penetrable on the remaining two.

Site Plan, Aerial View, Diagrams

Ground Floor Plan

N View

"In the Museum Building, the ground floor plan comes together as the amalgam of all different public flows and functions. The vast exterior Public Space under the Shed merges with the spacious area of the Museum Lobby to form a continuous territory of public interaction and events."

Main Entrance / Lobby

2nd Floor Exhibition Area

Circulation Ramp

Elevation