The new museum will display a collection of over 4,000 works of art. The collection, which today is kept mainly in the storerooms of the university and the general public is known only thanks to the Internet, can boast of both the creations of masters of the past and the works of contemporary artists. The museum is planned to be built on a 0.6 hectare site located in the southern part of the university campus.
The finalists of the closed architectural competition, in addition to the SO-IL winners, were the WORKac workshop in New York and the Danes from Henning Larsen's bureau. The works submitted for the competition were evaluated according to the highest standards of "sustainable" construction, the originality of the architectural appearance of the building and its organic nature of the campus development.
All three bureaus paid special attention to the roof of the future museum, creating with its help a developed system of public spaces that serve as a continuation of the exhibition halls. In the SO-IL project, the roof is made of transparent materials and can be transformed, if necessary, turning part of the museum premises into open-air areas.
The WORKac bureau gave the roof the shape of a polygonal hood, the translucent edges of which make it possible to create a large pedestrian area in front of the museum, reliably protected from precipitation and the sun.
Henning Larsen's bureau has placed a rooftop garden connected to ground level by a ramp, which itself serves as additional public space.
The museum, which will be named after the four philanthropists Schrem, is slated to be built by 2016.
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