Snøhetta Designs New Museum Quarter on Top of the Virgl Mountain
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Snohetta has recently released visuals of a proposed Museum Quarter in the mountains of Bolzano, which will have a projecting stepped roof that doubles as a viewpoint. The proposal is an extension of Snohetta's ongoing project with Signa Group, for which it iSnøhetta Designs New Museum Quarter on Top of the Virgl Mountain
Snohetta has recently released visuals of a proposed Museum Quarter in the mountains of Bolzano, which will have a projecting stepped roof that doubles as a viewpoint. The proposal is an extension of Snohetta's ongoing project with Signa Group, for which it is currently constructing a cable car system on Italy's Virgl mountain.The architecture studio said: “Together with the planned Bolzano cable car structure, the new Museum Quarter on top of the Virgl mountain will serve as a terrace for the city’s inhabitants.”The Museum Quarter is intended to accommodate museum spaces for the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, and the Municipal Museum of Bolzano, as well as exhibition spaces for “Otzi the Iceman,” the 5,300-year old glacier mummy discovered in 1991, which is a renowned archaeological sensation.“Visitors can meet ‘Otzi the Iceman,’ one of the most important archaeological discoveries, on top of the Virgl mountain – a place with a historic atmosphere. They will literally slip under the skin of the mountain, entering it to see the ‘Iceman,’” said Kjetil Traedal Thorsen, Founding Partner of Snohetta.Snohetta’s proposal imagines the Museum Quarter as an elongated structure that projects out from the mountain to echo its topography. It would connect to the ring-shaped cable car station via a central plaza, which will be used as a space for open-air markets and concerts. This plaza will be lined with a mix of seating areas and lead up to the museum’s stepped roof that provides panoramic views of Bolzano and its mountainscape. A secluded entrance to the pair of museums will puncture the hillside leading into a joint foyer area.Snohetta has also proposed to develop the surrounding landscape to make the mountain top more accessible for leisure activities such as walking, hiking, or biking. Once constructed, the Museum Quarter will establish a new landmark for Bolzano and reinforce the city’s international significance as a cultural destination. “The new Museum Quarter will create a synthesis of city and nature, of history and future, of building and landscape, of culture, leisure, and knowledge,” said Thorsen, describing the significance of their proposed project.Founded in 1989, Snohetta is an international architecture and design firm based in Oslo, Norway, and New York. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more