브라질 벨렝에 위치한 MAAT 뮤지엄은 강과 그 보다 더 넓은 세계로의 새로운 관계를 지향하고자 하는 외향적 미술관으로써 강력하면서도 그 섬세하고 지면에 낮게 드리운 듯한 구도의 건물이다. 이 곳에서는 현대 미술과 건축, 기술에 대한 집합점을 탐험할 수 있다.
주위 풍경에 자연스럽게 섞여 있는 미술관은 이 곳을 방문하고 있는 방문객들이 자연스럽게 걸어 들어와 건물의 아래를 통해 건물을 통과해 갈 수 있는 구조를 하고 있고, 지붕은 외부로 연결된 공간이 되어 이 곳에서 도시의 중심부를 관망할 수 있으며 방문객들은 강을 등지고 도시 전경을 즐길 수 있다.
MAAT is an outward-looking museum located on the banks of the Tagus in Belém, the district from where the Portuguese great explorers set off. Proposing a new relationship with the river and the wider world, the kunsthalle is a powerful yet sensitive and low-slung building that explores the convergence of contemporary art, architecture and technology.
Architects: AL_A
Location: Av. Brasília, 1300-598 Lisboa, Portugal
Architect in Charge: Amanda Levete
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Francisco Nogueira, Fernando Guerra | FG+SG, Hufton + Crow, Paulo Coelho
Manufacturers: Ceràmica Cumella
The new building is the centrepiece of EDP Foundation’s masterplan for an art campus that includes the repurposed Central Tejo power station.
Blending structure into landscape, the kunsthalle is designed to allow visitors to walk over, under and through the building that sits beneath a gently expressed arch – one of the oldest forms in western architecture.
The roof becomes an outdoor room, a physical and conceptual reconnection of the river to the city’s heart – where visitors can turn away from the river and enjoy the vista of the cityscape, and at night, watch a film with Lisbon as a backdrop.
Below, the exhibition spaces are extensions of the public realm, with flowing interconnected places for experiences and interactions at the intersection of the three disciplines. These spaces complement the galleries of the converted Central Tejo building.
Building on Portugal’s rich tradition of craft and ceramics, three-dimensional crackle glazed tiles articulate the façade and produce a complex surface that gives mutable readings of water, light and shadow. The overhanging roof that creates welcome shade is used to bounce sunlight off the water and into the building.
from archdialy