An irregular concrete quantity connects a cluster of historic half-timbered buildings to type the Mom-of-Pearl Expertise Museum in Germany, designed by native studio Schulz und Schulz.
Schulz und Schulz drew on the type of a mussel when designing the tough concrete exhibition area, which occupies a previously derelict plot within the city of Adorf.
The quantity is surrounded on three sides by present buildings, together with a historic metropolis gate in-built 1778, which the studio overhauled as a part of the challenge.
Schulz und Schulz preserved and overhauled these buildings to create the Mom-of-Pearl Expertise Museum advanced, which is devoted to the cultural heritage of freshwater pearl mussels, pearl fishing and the craftsmanship of mother-of-pearl objects.
Contrasting these half-timbered neighbours, the concrete quantity has an angular, protruding facade with a gutter that channels rainwater right into a water function.
Inside, the Mom-of-Pearl Expertise Museum options clean white surfaces designed to distinction with the gray exterior, evoking the looks of mussel shells.
“The constructing represents a shell that has come to relaxation inside its environment,” Schulz und Schulz advised Dezeen.
“Its tough exterior washed by water, enclosing a valuable, shimmering inside,” it continued. “The facade, with its tough outer layer, is conceived to evoke a shell sculpted by the flowing water of the adjoining stream.”
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Exhibition areas are situated within the higher ranges of the Mom-of-Pearl Expertise Museum, together with within the cantilevered concrete part that protrudes over the museum entrance.
The lobby on the bottom flooring results in an atrium, which backs onto Adorf’s historic metropolis wall. Schulz und Schulz hoped to have fun the architectural historical past of Adorf by conserving the positioning’s present buildings and exposing town wall throughout the museum’s inside.
“The present older buildings on the plot had been partly vacant and liable to falling into disrepair,” and the studio. “Their preservation and adaptive reuse contribute to the stabilisation and strengthening of the native city cloth.”
“The mixing of the historic metropolis wall into the museum’s interior courtyard creates a tangible connection to Adorf’s historical past.”
Schulz und Schulz was based in 1992 by brothers Ansgar and Benedikt Schulz, and at the moment has places of work primarily based in Leipzig and Berlin.
Different museums which have lately been featured on Dezeen embody a looping concrete artwork gallery in Hangzhou and a museum and artwork library located in a renovated energy station in Shanghai.
The images is by Gustav Willeit.
