reimagining the oldest museum of historic Egyptian tradition
Led by David Gianotten and Andrea Karavanas, personal suggest a transformation of the Egyptian Museum inbuilt 1824 Turin — the oldest on the earth museum for historic Egyptian tradition. Occupying the Collegio dei Nobili, the advanced homes exhibition galleries, the Academy of Sciences and an open courtyard. Because the museum has undergone quite a few adjustments over the previous two centuries, it has turn out to be closed and indifferent from the remainder of town.
This profitable entry to the competition, entitled Museo Egizio 2024, addresses the historic position of the museum as the principle civic house for Turin. The proposal introduces a brand new coated courtyard, ‘Piazza Egizia’, and a sequence of related city areas open to all, which can reintegrate the indifferent museum again into town’s public areas.
photographs © OMA by Alessandro Rossi
six city rooms alongside a central column
Contest entry by OMA and native agency Andrea Tabocchini Structure proposes a reorganization of the Museo Egizio’s public areas into six distinct “city halls”. Every of those rooms is deliberate with a singular scale, operate and high quality. The architects notice that the biggest and most central city house is Piazza Egizia, a public house shared between the museum and town.
The six city rooms are linked collectively by a central armature, or “Backbone”, that runs between each of the museum’s entrances on By way of Accademia and By way of Duse. The general public can also be invited to enter the house by way of new openings on the facade of the present constructing on By way of Duse. To visually unite these rooms, OMA develops a geometrical sample on the bottom flooring impressed by museum artifacts similar to Benefit’s burial masks.
contained in the Egyptian museum proposed by Oma
The OMA workforce describes the brand new capabilities of the museum proposal: “Piazza Egizia is a multi-functional, two-level courtyard designed as a palimpsest of the historical past of the Egizio Museum. Right here the unique structure and traces of interventions over time are uncovered. At degree zero, the a number of historic courtyard openings – which had been closed because the museum’s 2010 renovation – have been restored, connecting this public house again to town.
“On degree -1, the place the Egyptian Backyard and the occasion and studying house are positioned, the unique facade of the Collegio dei Nobili – additionally hidden because the 2010s – is revealed. Two floor openings at degree zero – immediately above the Egyptian backyard and occasion and studying house – usher in gentle and direct guests underground.
fashionable options for a sustainable renovation
OMA envisages a clear cover put in over the brand new Piazza Egizia. This facility could be supported by extensions of the present columns and would home a temperate setting. The cover is designed with an aluminum clad structural metal grid and would additional function a tool for rainwater assortment, air flow and lighting provision. This technique proposes an answer to the museum’s sustainability ambitions.
The OMA design was chosen from the competitors entries by Kengo Kuma and Associates, Pininfarina Structure, Carlo Ratti Associatesand Snow hood.
‘I conceptualized Piazza Egizia as a palimpsest that reveals the completely different layers of the museum’s historical past,’ says OMA mission architect Andreas Karavanas‘This method restores the coherence of the structure and provides the museum a lucid identification, whereas guaranteeing that the brand new wants of the establishment are met..’