Kulturforum 20th Century Museum

Kulturforum 20th Century Museum

Berlin, Germany

Advanced Studio
Spring 2015
Time: 12 weeks
Instructor: Babara Hoidn

The proposed 20th Century Museum is located at the center of Kulturforum, which will play animportant role bonding all buildings in this area and create a new urban community within Berlin’s larger urban context.

The L shape museum consists of two parts, a long elevated bar and a taller stepped building mass. It potentially connects the buildings on north south axis. The elevated bar is trying to extend the simplicity and purity of Neue Nationalgalerie, while the stepped mass part is competing the organic shape of Berliner Philharmonie. Since the bar is raised to provide free access for pedestrians, the public plaza which the L shape encircles, along with the front plaza of Gemäldegalerie and the plaza of Berlin State Library becomes a continuous belt of public area on east west axis.

The new 20th Century Museum will reunite all the isolated buildings in Kulturforum and reform the site into a more functional and correlative organism in urban scale.