Berlin 20th Century museum

The museum of the twentieth century in Berlin could be an architectural synthesis materialising the notion of time. It’s an experience that reveals a context. A context where space, time, movement and the city are united. The project is an attempt to see the city and the museum content; then organised in chronological layers. It is a diagrammatic translation of a museum fund organised into strata respecting the chronological frieze of history.

The project approach is realised in two stages :

First, to cross the museum as a whole via a lifting “room”. This rapid crossing of time and potentially in the continuity of the route of the Neue Gallerie is an educational path (from 1900 to 2000) that allows the traveler to better decide his desires. It allows to meet the knowledge and better understand his museum. Arrived at the end of the century and thus at the highest point, the visitor can contemplate a global vision on the territory of Berlin. He is then able to choose a course that is exhaustive and continuous, or targeted, or even guided by an immersion close to the stroll.
An analytical, thematic or multiple and risky walk is possible in the museum of the twentieth century.

It is a museum therefore, a multiple place, developed by successive echoes of forms, volumes and stories. A place of emotion which superimposes, which splits, which redoubles its elements, to create in the strongest sense, an interface, an environment encompassing and inhabiting Man and subtracting it, thereby, to a simple function of spectator.

credits

Architect: Clément Blanchet Architecure
Client: Comité des musées berlinois
Nature of the operation: Competition
Realised in: 2015-2016
Site: Berlin, Germany
Program: Museum. 26,000 m2
Budget: 145 Millions Euros

team composition

Engineering: Bollinger + Grohmann
Scenography: dUCKS Scéno
Landscape: MBM Paysagistes