MUSAC - Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y Len

in Architecture by Mansilla+Tun Arquitectos contributed by miesvanderrohe, 25 November 2009

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Description MUSAC - Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y Len:

On a vast urban plan, MUSAC draws the scenario for art with the same optimistic attitude used by the Roman surveyors to sketch their cities in the landscape. In contrast to other types of spaces which, in their museum facet, focus on the exhibition of frozen historic collections, MUSAC is a living space that opens its doors to the wide-ranging manifestations of contemporary art. This is an art centre that constructs a set of chessboards on which the action is the protagonist of the space; a structure that develops from an open system, formed by fabric of squares and rhombi, and permitting the construction of a secret geography of memory. MUSAC is a new space for culture, regarded as something that visualises the connections between man and nature. A cluster of chained but independent rooms permit exhibitions of differing sizes and types. Each of the jaggedly shaped rooms constructs a continuous yet spatially differentiated area that opens onto the other rooms and courtyards, providing longitudinal, transversal and diagonal views. Five hundred prefab beams enclose a series of spaces that feature systematic repetition and formal expressiveness.

Outside, the public space takes on a concave shape to hold the activities and encounters, embraced by large coloured glass in homage to the city as the place for interpersonal relationships. Inside, a large area of continuous, different spaces, spattered with courtyards and large skylights, shapes an expressive system that speaks to us of the interest shared by architecture and art: the contemporary manifestation of the variable and the perennial, of equality and difference, of universality and transience, an echo of our own diversity and equality as people. In its size, as a single storey building with white concrete walls and large coloured glazing seen from the outside, MUSAC strives to be a space where art is at ease and helps to erase the boundaries between private and public, between work and leisure and ultimately, between art and life. Photograph by: Mansilla Tun Luis Asn

Office / Architect MANSILLA + TUN ARQUITECTOS / Emilio Tun lvarez, Luis Moreno Mansilla www.mansilla-tunon.com COLLABORADORS Andres Regueiro , Arcadio Conde , Juan Carlos Corona , Santiago Hernn , JG ASOCIADOS , Jaime Gimeno , Katrien Vertenten , Ricardo Lorenzana , Teresa Cruz , Clara Moneo , Matilde Peralta , Luis Diaz Maurio , Ainoa Prats , GOGAITE SL Alfonso Gomez Gaite CITYCOUNTRY LEN / SPAIN PROGRAMME CULTURAL PLACEMENT PRIZE WINNER EDITION 2007

On a vast urban plan, MUSAC draws the scenario for art with the same optimistic attitude used by the Roman surveyors to sketch their cities in the landscape. In contrast to other types of spaces which, in their museum facet, focus on the exhibition of frozen historic collections, MUSAC is a living space that opens its doors to the wide-ranging manifestations of contemporary art. This is an art centre that constructs a set of chessboards on which the action is the protagonist of the space; a structure that develops from an open system, formed by fabric of squares and rhombi, and permitting the construction of a secret geography of memory. MUSAC is a new space for culture, regarded as something that visualises the connections between man and nature. A cluster of chained but independent rooms permit exhibitions of differing sizes and types. Each of the jaggedly shaped rooms constructs a continuous yet spatially differentiated area that opens onto the other rooms and courtyards, providing longitudinal, transversal and diagonal views. Five hundred prefab beams enclose a series of spaces that feature systematic repetition and formal expressiveness. Outside, the public space takes on a concave shape to hold the activities and encounters, embraced by large coloured glass in homage to the city as the place for interpersonal relationships. Inside, a large area of continuous, different spaces, spattered with courtyards and large skylights, shapes an expressive system that speaks to us of the interest shared by architecture and art: the contemporary manifestation of the variable and the perennial, of equality and difference, of universality and transience, an echo of our own diversity and equality as people. In its size, as a single storey building with white concrete walls and large coloured glazing seen from the outside, MUSAC strives to be a space where art is at ease and helps to erase the boundaries between private and public, between work and leisure and ultimately, between art and life.

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Satellite Hybrid Terrain

AERIAL VIEW OF THE CONSTRUCTION SITE

MANSILLA TUN

MUSAC FORUM WITH PEOPLE

MANSILLA TUN

VIEW OF THE MUSAC ENTRANCE HALL

LUIS ASN

VIEW OF MUSAC EXHIBITION ROOMS

LUIS ASN

MUSAC GENERAL VIEW

LUIS ASN

VIEW OF THE MUSAC FORUM

MANSILLA Y TUN

FUNCTION CHART OF THE MUSAC

COLOUR AXONOMETRY OF THE MUSAC