TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART AMIR BUILDING
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Located in the center of the city’s cultural complex, the program for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building posed and extraordinary architectural challenge: to resolve the tension between the tight, idiosyncratic triangular site and the museum’s need for a series of large, neutral rectangular galleries.
The solution: subtly twisting geometric surfaces (hyperbolic parabolas) that connect the disparate angles between the galleries angles the context while refracting natural light into the deepest recesses of the half-buried building.
The building represents an unusual synthesis of two opposing paradigms for the contemporary museum: the museum of neutral white boxes and the museum pf architectural spectacle. Individual, rectangular galleries are organized around the “Lightwall”, an eighty-seven-foot-tall spiralling atrium.
The building is composed according to multiple axes that deviate significantly from floor to floor. In essence, it is a series of independent plans and steel structural system stacked one atop the other, connected by geometric episodes of vertical circulation.
The new building refers to the original building in such a way that the two can be seen as having a family resemblance. At the same time, it relates larger tradition of the new that exists within Israel architectural culture.
The multiple vocabularies of Mendelsohn and Bauhaus Modernism in Tel Aviv are re-synthesized in an architectural language that is internationalist and progressive in its cultural orientation.
Photo credits: Amit Geron
Countries: ISRAEL
Categories: CULTURAL ARCHITECTURE AND EVENTS
Designer: PRESTON SCOTT COHEN
Status: Completed
Inaugurazione: 2011
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