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Allison Morris
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The renovation of the Musée Unterlinden is outrageously restrained!

💡 Name: Musée Unterlinden Renovation and Expansion 🖋 Design: Herzog & de Meuron 🔍 Type: Renovation 📅 Year: 2015 📸 Photography: Internet ✔️The Musée Unterlinden renovation and expansion project covers urban development, architecture, and museology, focusing on issues of reconstruction, simulation, and integration. ✔️There are two architectural complexes: the medieval convent and the new museum, facing each other across the Unterlinden square, connected by an underground gallery. The new building echoes the volume of the church and, together with the former municipal baths, forms a second enclosed courtyard. In this way, the bus station and parking lot that existed before the museum's renovation have been transformed into a new public space. The Sinn River, which flows beneath the old town of Colmar, has been reopened and becomes the central element of this new public space. A small house near the water marks the museum's presence on the square: its location, volume, and shape are identical to the mill that once stood there. Two windows allow passers-by to look down into the underground gallery. ✔️The design aims to find an urban structure and architectural language that can blend into the old town but appear modern upon close inspection. The entrance of the expanded museum has been moved to the center of Unterlinden square, facing the canal and leading to the convent, whose façade has been carefully renovated. Recent museum elements have been removed, and the space has been restored to its original state. The original wooden ceilings are now visible, and previously obscured windows look out onto the convent and the city. ✔️Inside, the new underground gallery and exhibition building (called Ackerhof) display 19th- and 20th-century collections with contemporary abstract lines. The second floor of the new building is dedicated to temporary exhibitions: its gable roof and ultra-high height (11.5 meters) reflect the proportions of the Dominican Church opposite. The former municipal baths are connected to the new exhibition space and are used for concerts, conferences, events, and art installations. The exteriors of Ackerhof and the small house are made of irregular, hand-chiseled bricks that echo the quarry stones and plastered convent exteriors, which have been repaired many times over the centuries. These brick walls feature lancet windows; the roof gables are made of copper. The new courtyard, like Unterlinden square, is paved with sandstone, and the enclosing walls are made of the same bricks as the new building. #Views #ArchitectureMasters #PritzkerPrize #HerzogdeMeuron #Colmar #MuseumDesign #Renovation

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