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Dessau Stadtpark facade
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Dessau Park facade with lettering by graphic designers Mevis and van Deursen with Karl Nawrot
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Offenen Bühne (Open Stage): visitor’s area, cafeteria, shop and temporary exhibitions under the black box
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First floor exhibition Versuchsstätte Bauhaus. The Collection
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Bauhaus Dessau Park, February 2020
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The building is located facing the City Park and parallel to the Kavalierstrasse - a former monumental urban axis where several of the most representative buildings of the city were located - as a reminder and catalyst of its urban setting
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Ground Floor plan (Open Stage)
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First Floor plan (Collection)
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Basement plan (Technical rooms, cloakroom, toilets)
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Long section
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Energy concept
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Panel A2 Low Resolution
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Addenda Architects. Dessau, Germany
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Name of work in English
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
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Name of work in original language
BAUHAUS MUSEUM DESSAU
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2022
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Work Location
Dessau, Germany
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Studio
Addenda Architects
EUmies Awards 2022 Nominees
The new Bauhaus Museum Dessau links an iconographic heritage ("Less is More") with a manifesto of contemporary culture ("The Age of Less").
Collaborators
Landscape architect: Roser Vives de Delàs, Patricia Pérez-Rumpler; Local Executive Architect: BAL Bauplanungs und Steuerungs GmbH; Structural engineering: B+G Ingenieure Bollinger und Grohmann GmbH; Mechanical: Inros Lackner SE; Façades: Xmade Facade and Envelope Design; Lighting: Lichtvision Design GmbH; Project management: Teamproject - tp management GmbH; Others: Moritz Küng; Graphic design: Mevis & van Deursen and Karl Nawrot
Program
Culture
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Labels
Museum
Site area
10943 m²
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Client
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Total gross floor
5513 m²
Completion
2019
A monumental monolithic black box under a glass shell houses the permanent collection. Seemingly hovering above the ground, the structure creates a new and unexpected public plaza on the ground floor, embodying a transparent gate to the public park next to it. Referring to some specific features of the Bauhaus building in Dessau – the glazed Curtain Wall, the two-story Bridge and the overall impression of transparency, lightness and plane surfaces – the museum embodies a manifesto of contemporary culture that could most accurately be described as ‘low resolution at its best’, a bon mot that adequately captures the precariousness of our present time, but combines it with an attitude of great optimism.
The new Bauhaus Museum Dessau is a clear and simple volume located between city and Park, construction and nature. Its position, a little set back from the former historic building line, suggests a continuation with the city urban legacy. The building has an intermediate urban scale, between the size of a building and the size of a city block. Its four facades, oriented towards the four cardinal points, reflect the qualities of its position. The Eastern Facade, facing Kavalierstrasse, recalls the old building line and the building's urban character. The western facade, towards the park, is influenced by the reflection of nature and acts as a background for outdoor gathering and activities. The northern facade, in Friedrichstrasse and in front of the Post Office building, is devoted to logistics and administration. The southern facade, facing the Stadtgespräch fountain, promotes social interaction through some Museum activities like workshops and other cultural events.
Shell construction: Water-impermeable concrete construction in the basement – socalled “white tub” Ground floor and first floor: exposed concrete construction cast in-situ, ceilings with precast concrete elements Facade: Mullion-transom construction with triple glazing (571 panels) including thermal insulation, sun protection, security and highly effective bird protection, floor-to-ceiling sun protection curtain in glass rotation.