MUSEUM BERLARE
Small history museum / 1998-2001

Together with Hera van Sande, BDP

The first proposition was completely subterranean: no outward representation, no pretensions – a building without presence. This proposition was rejected because of the heavy costs involved in digging so near a lake. A second proposition was to place some small boxes, scattered over the grassland, in which the museum’s collection would be openly exhibited. While charmed by this proposal, the client still wanted more of a building, more architecture. Ultimately a totally different strategy was used. Instead of continuing to try to make the building disappear we would do the exact opposite – make it extra-massive, as if it was a geological formation, a stone pushed out of the ground. By doing so we achieved an almost natural presence, as if the building had always been there. 

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