The Sprengel Museum extension has enormous potential for change in that the museum must be experienced as a part of the place in which it lives. Set on a plinth, the museum demarcates itself as a sacred space. The building is articulated around a longitudinal street dividing it into isolated spaces. Our proposal seeks to create interaction between the museum site and its immediate surroundings, between a building and a topography, each with their own histories, and provide a contemporary perspective radiating out over the city, the lake, the garden and the museum’s plinth. The project’s verticality enables responses to all the project’s challenges in a single gesture:....
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