Stadtmuseum Berlin

Status: 2015
Location: Germany

Client: Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung
Value: €30m

 

Stanton Williams have won first prize in the international architectural competition for the Stadtmuseum, Berlin. The competition was to create a major new city museum through the adaptation and redevelopment of Berlin’s existing Marinehaus. Together with the neighbouring Märkisches Museum, the building will form the new Stadtmuseum, housing displays relating to the history and development of Berlin. The new museum will provide approximately 6,860m² (net floor area) of display areas and museum accommodation.

Our design responds to the direct relationship between exhibit and context by establishing strong visual connections between the interior of the museum and the city itself.

The design aims to create ‘a window on the city’ by giving the Museum façade a permeable character, with a new public space and arcade at ground level, a loggia at first floor level and a viewing gallery located above the reconstructed tower of the Marinehaus. The gallery provides a panoramic outlook towards Berlin’s Museum Island and highlights the Museum within the city’s skyline.

The brick structure of the Marinehaus, together with the scars of successive alterations, will be revealed inside the Museum as traces of the building’s history.

 

Credits
Project Manager: Convis
Cost Consultant: BMP Baumanagement
Structural Engineer: Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner GmbH
Services Engineer: Schnabel AG