An Architecture for Art

An Architecture for Art: Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art

Damstra, René (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Pimlott, Mark (mentor)
Klooster, M.W. (mentor)
Thomas, A.R. (mentor)
Pietsch, S. (graduation committee)
Rosbottom, D.J. (graduation committee)
De Vocht, S. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Interiors Buildings Cities

2023-06-28

In summary, the design proposal is a new building for the contemporary art museum the M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerpen), which in the future will be the Flemish oriented contemporary art museum VMHK (Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art). The project location is the existing court of appeal on the Zuiderdokken in Antwerp. The existing building will be demolished because of spatial and technical requirements and will make room in my proposal for a new museum: The building arises from the park, which the building faces. A landscape slopes up to the building's public ‘forum’ space. It is a raised level, where one can look over the flood defenses onto the river, while the art handling truck enters the building underneath. This artificial landscape, which forms the base of the building, consists entirely of recycled concrete, with various repurposed aggregate materials. Above the forum space rises a large volume, a biobased box, with all the 'silent program' of the museum. The careful placement of circulation cores allows for large art spaces.

Museum
Contemporary Art
M HKA
Antwerp

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Student theses

master thesis

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