Tel Aviv Art Museum New Wing
Shaul Hamelech Boulevard
Tel Aviv, Israel
| Client |
Tel Aviv Art Museum |
| Design team |
Esther Sperber, Yaron Kupershtock, David Serero,
Elena Fernandez |
| Date |
2002 |
| Size |
20,000 sq.m. |
Cost |
$40,000,000 |
Our proposal for the new wing of the Tel Aviv Art Museum is based on a
series of ramps connecting the existing floor level with the different
site elevations and the new wings galleries. A simple diagram of ramps
and galleries was twisted and stacked to fit the difficult site
conditions, creating the complex yet simple to understand form weaving
together old and new, the site and the building, the art and everyday
life.
The visitor can choose from two circulations systems: the ramps which lead them through the entire collection, telling the story designed by the museum curators, or an alternative concrete-core vertical system which allows direct access to each gallery. These cores are reminiscent
of the circulation system in the existing building, harmonizing the
movement in the old building with the fluid sequence of ramps and
galleries in the new wing.
Two elongated atria emerge from the shifting and overlapping of the
gallery strands. They cross the volume of the museum and sculpt the
negative space.
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