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VMHK | A Warehouse for Art
A new building for the Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp
The scope of this graduation project is to design a new building for Antwerp’s Museum of contemporary art (M HKA). A building that can accommodate the museum’s ambitions following the transition from the M HKA to the Flemish Museum of contemporary art (VMHK). The museum has been appointed a location in Antwerp South for its new building and has released a program with its requirements, which has been used as a basis for this project.
Museums are complicated buildings. In order to be able to design such a building, it is necessary to gain a thorough understanding of its environment: the city of Antwerp, and more specifically the museum’s location, the typology of the museum of contemporary art, and of the M HKA itself: its rich history, the type of museum it currently is and its ambitions to become the VMHK.
In its brief, the client describes a desire for an atmosphere of both ‘industrial roughness and domestic intimacy’, as well as it being a ‘robust skeleton and a
volatile space of experimentation’. This notwithstanding, the architecture should
also be sustainable, in a broad sense: in its use of materials, in the use of
existing subsoil (parts), but mostly it should be adaptable to future, different use. ...
Museums are complicated buildings. In order to be able to design such a building, it is necessary to gain a thorough understanding of its environment: the city of Antwerp, and more specifically the museum’s location, the typology of the museum of contemporary art, and of the M HKA itself: its rich history, the type of museum it currently is and its ambitions to become the VMHK.
In its brief, the client describes a desire for an atmosphere of both ‘industrial roughness and domestic intimacy’, as well as it being a ‘robust skeleton and a
volatile space of experimentation’. This notwithstanding, the architecture should
also be sustainable, in a broad sense: in its use of materials, in the use of
existing subsoil (parts), but mostly it should be adaptable to future, different use. ...
The scope of this graduation project is to design a new building for Antwerp’s Museum of contemporary art (M HKA). A building that can accommodate the museum’s ambitions following the transition from the M HKA to the Flemish Museum of contemporary art (VMHK). The museum has been appointed a location in Antwerp South for its new building and has released a program with its requirements, which has been used as a basis for this project.
Museums are complicated buildings. In order to be able to design such a building, it is necessary to gain a thorough understanding of its environment: the city of Antwerp, and more specifically the museum’s location, the typology of the museum of contemporary art, and of the M HKA itself: its rich history, the type of museum it currently is and its ambitions to become the VMHK.
In its brief, the client describes a desire for an atmosphere of both ‘industrial roughness and domestic intimacy’, as well as it being a ‘robust skeleton and a
volatile space of experimentation’. This notwithstanding, the architecture should
also be sustainable, in a broad sense: in its use of materials, in the use of
existing subsoil (parts), but mostly it should be adaptable to future, different use.
Museums are complicated buildings. In order to be able to design such a building, it is necessary to gain a thorough understanding of its environment: the city of Antwerp, and more specifically the museum’s location, the typology of the museum of contemporary art, and of the M HKA itself: its rich history, the type of museum it currently is and its ambitions to become the VMHK.
In its brief, the client describes a desire for an atmosphere of both ‘industrial roughness and domestic intimacy’, as well as it being a ‘robust skeleton and a
volatile space of experimentation’. This notwithstanding, the architecture should
also be sustainable, in a broad sense: in its use of materials, in the use of
existing subsoil (parts), but mostly it should be adaptable to future, different use.