The museum as unanimity of culture and nature a simple monolith volume cut into the slope of the river bank, and connecting the city and the river. The museum building as an extension of the city. The museum as the information carrier. All the surfaces of the museum work: the fifth façade is a square; navigation texts are on all the surfaces. The museum as a club: architecture, arts, history, ballet, cinema, children, fashion, street art, city events. Europe and Asia.

HORIZON
1. the line at which the earth’s surface and the sky appear to meet
2. (horizons) the limit of a person’s mental perception, experience, or interest
3. geology a layer of soil or rock, or a set of strata, with particular characteristics. Archaeology a level of an excavated site representing a particular period

The building of a museum incorporates city transport streams and its agents become pedestrians, cars, trains, the ships. The mooring, the railway platform, the bus terminal make a museum complex multifunctional and, being its extension, expand its influence
on the city environment.

The museum building is a five-tier parallelepiped with the upper tier as a plateau providing a panoramic sight to the city. Thus, the museum keeps wide visual prospect for future inhabited complex Kama Gate and creates additional active city territory.

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The facade is executed as an independent shell from glass of a various transparency. Plates of glass cover the body of the building along the whole perimeter. In the afternoon the glass shell lets the light inside, and it shines from within at night.

The glass shell targets a number of purposes: heat-shielding, light controlling with protection against direct sunlight, and decorative – it creates a play of light and gives lightness to the building.

Competition: first prize
Function: museum,
transport hub, city plaza,
pedestrian route
Place: Russia, Perm
Year: 2007-2008
Size: city + 20,000 sq m
Materials: concrete, metal, glass, wood
Client: City government, C:CA
Cost, €: 80.000.000
Status: competition concept

Architects:
Boris Bernaskoni
Olga Treiwas
Anna Filodor
Marina Perevezentseva

Bernaskoni

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