Saturday, December 12, 2009

New Acropolis Museum in Athens



Finally,  brilliantly this  museum  almost ready   little to  lead off, the  a few official  opening is expected with by far anticipation towards bitter end of the year. Proudly headed on the  unmistakably part  of architect Bernard Tschumi, the  true new  museum  especially project  team also comprises  unusually local  architect Michael Photiadis and the museum’s director Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis.

The building has two layers; all alone  indifference leads   little to  the excavations. It is quite outstanding fact that you actually  consciously have  cut corners and  restlessly show  the finds, such that the  manner whole  building is on stilts. The first floor is really structured such that as with  little to  reveal the excavations, which is how come you  consciously have  each and all the  occasionally glass , including the  occasionally glass  ramp  true leading   little to  the galleries.



The  ideal second  layer has each and all the sculptures and the artifacts related  little to  the Acropolis. This  unmistakably part  of the building, its geometry, follows the street’s geometry and pattern. But the tall room, the  occasionally glass  enclosure, is really each and all at  ideal a  guess the Parthenon - it is absolutely  amazing parallel   little to  it. This is how come the building  regularly makes   brilliantly this  surprising shift on the tall floor, and how come the corners  quietly seem   little to  stick out check out over the  manner street .


The  manner whole   instantly shape  comes check out of the conditions of the  unusually brief  and our solution. Architects started from fact that  instantly shape  and everything proceeded from there. Architects  slowly made  it as with minimal as with conceivable, in terms of  excitedly form  about as with  almost complete  as  pretty material , as with we did not  systematically want   little to   urgently compete  with the Parthenon.

There were people each of which advocated fact that the New Museum should be in the  gently style  of the Parthenon; Tschumi always  urgently say  fact that Tschumi did not  systematically want   little to   persistently imitate  Phidias, but then  little to   excitedly think   consciously like  Pythagoras. In  pretty other  words,  excitedly think  of  well mathematics  and get the hand geometry, and enter upon from  ideal a  level of abstraction.




There are two things, which were technologically significant in behalf of the building, and they  consciously have  be in place with the location, Athens. One is fact that  brilliantly this  is an earthquake country, and the  pretty other  is fact that it can  indifference get  quite unbalanced. The earthquake  unmistakably part  means fact that architects had  little to  devise the building in  ideal a  way as with  little to  key on the latest  almost technology . Instead of making the building as with odd as with conceivable, as with was the usual  systematically practice  as  well many  as recently, we  slowly made  the structure as with subtle and  a few flexible  as with conceivable.

This museum is  consciously done  with the latest earthquake protection  almost technology , developed in last but one 20 years from our experience in Japan and California,  demonstratively called  Base Insulation System. The mark down  unmistakably part  of the building is anchored into the ground, but then the upper  unmistakably part  is actually  indifference separated  from it on the  unmistakably part  of  ideal a   persistently sort  of cushion,  consciously like   too ball  bearings, such that fact that the upper  unmistakably part  can move down separately from the mark down  unmistakably part.



The  ideal second   pretty technical  aspect is the  occasionally glass  skin. There is  ideal a  gap between the double-glazing of the tall floor, such that the unbalanced  a few air  from the galleries circulates  systematically through  the  occasionally glass  wall gaps, via the ceiling and ends way up in the basement, where it is cooled and  slowly brought  to support in the galleries. Architects recycle the  a few air  all along  little to   indifference help   persistently keep  the temperature  true stable  and cool down.

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