Arp Museum | Richard Meier & Partners
The design of the Arp Museum represents the seamless integration of the building?s spectacular site with the museum?s mission to showcase the work of the Dadaist master Hans Arp and his circle. One of the unique features of the region in which the museum is located is the series of medieval castles that line a 35-mile stretch of the river Rhine. The Arp Museum, sited on a wooded escarpment overlooking the Rhine, is intended to respond to and echo the forms of these captivating relics.
Courtesy of Richard Meier & Partners Architects, Roland Halbe
The structure?s entry sequence does not begin in the Museum proper, but rather at the base of the bank-side mountain, in the old village railway station, used since the 1960s as an exhibition space. The lowest level of the station functions as the main entrance to the new museum building, which is reached only gradually by a series of carefully modulated tunnels and shafts that burrow into and up through the mountain to the new building. Courtesy of Richard Meier & Partners Architects, Roland Halbe
The first of these subterranean sequences begins from this lobby, which leads to a 40-meter-long tunnel?illuminated by two continuous bands of light?that extends below ground under the railway tracks to an exhibition pavilion that stands independent of the main museum building. The modest pavilion features polished concrete floors and a discreet slotted skylight; aside from providing ancillary temporary exhibition space, the pavil...
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