Architect: Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum / 1st prize winner

Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum / Zaha Hadid Architect / Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher / 1st prize winner.

design by / Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid,

Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum / Zaha Hadid Architect

Location : Cagliari. Italy.

Function : Culture facility.

Site area : 2,000,000m2.

Bldg. area : 1.200,000m2.

Total floor area : 1,200,000m2.

Structure : Mix concrete, Steel.

Design participation : Paola Cattarin, Paolo Matteuzzi, Federico Bistolfi.

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SITE PLAN

Architectural concept :

The new museum is like a coralline concretion, empty inside, hard and porous on the external surface. able to accommodate, in a continuous osmotic exchange with the external atmosphere, cultural activities in a lively and changing environment. At times it assimilates to the ground. creating a new landscape, while at others it acquires a strong mass defining the new skyline. The open and dynamic quality of the shape is also pursued inside the building, where the circulation of the visitors

through the exhibition, information and commercial paths determine the geometry of the spaces. The erosion that forms a great cavity inside the building articulates the volume in a succession of open

spaces for exhibition, places of aggregation and occasions for installa-tion of contemporary art. Such spaces, visible from a variety of view-points, satisfy the perceptive and the aesthetic dialogue between the contemporary and the Nuragic art. The inner cavity allows the genesis of two continuous skins. one contained within the other. The museum program is placed between the 'external skin' of the facade system, and the 'inner skin , equipped with a flexible serial system of anchor-age and electrification, that allows multiple uses of surfaces/walls for installations or video projections.

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Paths :

The communication, contemporary and Nuragic exhibitions, end the public paths crossing the building end intercepting each other, create the fluid structure of the building, allowing a variety of uses and con- figurations The vertical and oblique elements of circulation create zones of interference and turbulence creating a visual continuity between the different parts of the building.

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• The public path :

The public commercial path allows visitors to cross the building in par-rallel with the path along the sea. It offers in sequenced areas a store. bookshop. bars, restaurants, and the systems of togge where outdoor pieces of art could be accommodated.

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The exhibition paths :

of the ground floor in continuous dialogue with the courts, external cavity. The contemporary art exhibition path starts from the ground floor, crossing the building until the open 'logge' of the top floor. The Nuragic art exhibition path from the ground floor slides between the two skins of the building allowing a more intimate vision of the works of art without sacrificing the view on the great central space. Phasing - morphology and strategy.

Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher 1st prize winner.

• Phase 1

This phase constitutes approximately 50% of the new cultural centre and includes the realization of all the spaces to high profit. - Wide spaces of aggregation to the indoor and outdoor the event space situated in the central cavity, the external cave and the vault used for installations, to correct the chronic lack of visibility of the contemporary art and young artists - All activities related to communication apart from the large confer- ence hall - All offices, with the aim to start all the necessary activities of man- agement and marketing of the various departments of the museum I a small but significant part of the exhibition spaces to generate fur- ther interest to create a place for the dialogue between the arts over time.

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• Phase 2

The consolidation of the museum complex in every new phase tram forms the landscape. The second phase is constituted by the comple tion of the exhibition spaces with other related spaces, including the library and conference hall. This construction, in adhesion with the building of phase one, takes advantage of the existing distributive system, completing it and supplying a new facade on the entrance court.

• Phase 3

Phase 3 comprises the extension of phase 2 towards the city of Cagliari, It is an isolated building that accommodates the Research: Laboratories. It will be connected to the rest of the museum through a 'connecting carpet' , in order to offer a privileged site by the sea for performance and the production of the adiacent research laboratories.