Italian studio Peter Pichler Architecture has unveiled its design for a museum and storage facility in South Tyrol, Italy, which will rise from the alpine landscape with an angular green roof.
Set to contain exhibition spaces, workshops, laboratories and offices, the museum depot will be designed to help preserve and celebrate cultural and archaeological artefacts from the local South Tyrol region.
Peter Pichler Architecture has unveiled its design for a museum depot in South Tyrol
An angular green roof will rise from the ground and over a street-facing entrance, where a tall glazed facade will illuminate a foyer.
Peter Pichler Architecture designed the sloped roof as an extension of the building’s mountainous setting, intending to blend it into the dramatic landscape.
A spiral staircase will connect the floor levels in the museum
“The green roof becomes an extension of the landscape, fostering continuity and a seamless dialogue between architecture and its natural setting,” said Peter Pichler Architecture.
“By partially embedding the building into the ground, the project reduces its perceived scale and respects the surrounding context and typology.”
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A spiral staircase in the light-filled foyer will lead to storage and exhibition spaces in the subterranean levels, which will provide the stable temperature and humidity levels needed to help preserve artefacts.
The museum depot offices will have glazed facades that overlook and open onto a central triangular courtyard.
Offices will surround an outdoor courtyard
Peter Pichler Architecture hopes its design for the museum depot, which recently received approval from the local council as a public-private partnership, will become a dedicated home for archaeological research in South Tyrol and bring the region’s cultural objects together under one roof.
“The new design was confronted with a dual obligation: to perform as an optimised preservation facility while simultaneously responding to the cultural demands of the region,” said the studio.
“Unlike the historical distribution of depots of varying scales and programs scattered across South Tyrol, the new museum depot consolidates these functions into a unified facility, creating an integrated regional space for archaeological research.”
Exhibition space will be located underground
Peter Pichler founded his eponymous studio in Milan in 2015.
Other projects by the studio that have been featured on Dezeen include a geometric office block in Bologna with pleated facades and an angular concrete villa in a vineyard in South Tyrol.
The images are by Peter Pichler Architecture.
