Achitecture Design of Archaeological Museum in Vitoria by Francisco Mangado
November 6th, 2009 - Posted in Architecture DesignHere’s architecture design of Archaeological Museum located in Vitoria – Spanyol. Archaeological Museum is museum building design was designed by Francisco José Mangado Beloqui. The building is modeled on the context and the continuity it establishes with the annexed Bendaña Palace, currently Fournier Playing Card Museum. The main access is via the same courtyard that provides access to the Palace and can understand the entire package. To expand the patio surface and thereby dignify access, the proposed waiver to fill the proposed area. Only a narrow strip is used which is built like an appendix perpendicular to the main building whose mission is to contain besides supporting applications offer a more dignified facade to access the current represented by the intercourse of the surrounding buildings. Since the gradient of the plot is accessed from the courtyard via a bridge over a garden that brings light to the functions located at the lowest level which otherwise would be left without natural lighting on this side.
In the permanent exhibition halls, the horizontal planes, floors and ceilings are very dark. The wooden floor “stick”, almost black, and the continuous ceiling, also black. This is the box that brings us back to the time, concentrated in the layers of soil for years, one after another, have shaped the thick wall that is history. But these spaces are traversed by a white glass prisms around which is organizing an exhibition of the pieces. For them slip light from the deck during the day, and carry embedded between layers, graphics and information to explain the objects, whose light will evoke the adventure of interpretation.
