Tilted walls covered in blue ceramic tiles will break up the white geometric exterior of Tikva, a Jewish museum that New York office Studio Libeskind is designing in the district of Bele?m in Lisbon.
The 3,869-square-metre museum is being developed by Daniel Libeskind's firm with local architect Miguel Saraiva for a site in the Portuguese capital that looks onto the 16th-century Tower of Belém and Tagus river.
Top image: Studio Libeskind is designing a museum in Lisbon. Above: it will be divided into five segments
Called Tikva Jewish Museum Lisbon, it will feature exhibition spaces that "tell the yet untold story of the Jews in Portugal, their culture and history," according to Studio Libeskind.
"At the same time it is to be a project that looks forward, celebrating religious tolerance and cultural difference," the office told Dezeen. The segments are divided by slanted walls covered in blue ceramics
Tikva's design is intended to "echo the scale of the historic city" and will be divided into five adjoining segments.
The idea of creating five interlocking volumes derives from the number of letters in the museum's name, Tikva, which means hope in Hebrew.
White plaster will cover the exterior
The museum's individual segments will be defined by the tilted walls that cut through the building's white plaster exterior. The material was chosen as a nod to local vernacular.
All of the slanted walls will be covered in Azulejos, a traditional type of Po...