Museum of Concrete Art and Design (competition)

Status: 2012 (1st place)
Location: Ingolstadt, Germany

Client: Stadt Ingolstadt
Value: Confidential

 

Stanton Williams have been awarded first place at the competition for the Museum of Concrete Art and Design in Ingolstadt, South Germany, beating a high profile group of competitors.

The beauty of the existing foundry hall lies in its unified space, its quality of light and the patina of time on masonry and metalwork. These are qualities which provide the opportunity to create a unique exhibition space with the generosity of space, control of light and flexibility of layout required by the museum collection. They are qualities that we have sought to preserve and enhance in our scheme.

Stanton Williams' proposal maintains the primary volume of the foundry hall as an exhibition space.

Ancillary spaces and specialized areas – small exhibition rooms, foyer, café, services etc – wrap around this display hall, maintaining its integrity at the heart of the scheme. The building form and materials reflect the concept of casting as a form of memory, using cast materials to unify the new building with its physical and historical context and reinforce its simple, robust character. The primary material of walls and roof of the new building is a monolithic insitu concrete. Where the new roof terminates at ridge level, the north and south elevations are clad in ridged cast iron panels, which are left to weather.