The Iberê Camargo foundation wished to build a building for the archiving and the exhibition of its collection. The available ground is bounded in the North by the avenue Padre Cacique and in the South by a bank between the quotations 5 and 24.
The proposed program includes areas of exhibition, deposit, library and video library, of bookshop, cafeteria, a small public, zones of administration and artistic studios.
A parking lot of car park for 95 vehicles is also planned underground. The base of the building is established by a long platform, raised to 0,90 m of the pavement of the avenue Padre Cacique, the money which is situated a part of the zones of the program. This platform is accessible from the pavement by means of a banister.
The main volume is cut from the vegetation of the bank, occupying a hollow and results from the four-storeyed superimposing irregular, including the ground floor at the same level as the platform. This volume is limited by right and almost orthogonal walls and by a waved wall.
This wall limits on all the height of the building the space of the entrance hall, which is surrounded on the rest of the perimeter by small showrooms as well as by the reception, the cloakroom and the bookshop at the ground floor. Spaces intended for the temporary and permanent exhibitions are not different, opting for a flexibility appropriate to the current trend of functioning of museums.
The rooms of all the floors can be opened on the hall or closed by removable panels until 4m of height, allowing the entrance of natural light from the hall and between this height and the ceiling.
The rooms of the last floor receive the natural light through small windows established by a double glazing with an intermediate access for the household and the regulation of the light. The space of the hall receives the light by small windows situated on the terrace and by openings outside of the wavy wall.
The vertical accesses are situated in each of the extremities of showrooms. They also include a system of banister with a slope between 8 and 9 %, the development of which takes place partially inside the space of the hall and partially outside, establishing galleries which surround the volume of the building, opened punctually on a wonderful landscape.
Museum Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brésil
Architect : Alvaro Siza Vieira
Client : Fondation Iberê Camargo
The proposed program includes areas of exhibition, deposit, library and video library, of bookshop, cafeteria, a small public, zones of administration and artistic studios.
A parking lot of car park for 95 vehicles is also planned underground. The base of the building is established by a long platform, raised to 0,90 m of the pavement of the avenue Padre Cacique, the money which is situated a part of the zones of the program. This platform is accessible from the pavement by means of a banister.
The main volume is cut from the vegetation of the bank, occupying a hollow and results from the four-storeyed superimposing irregular, including the ground floor at the same level as the platform. This volume is limited by right and almost orthogonal walls and by a waved wall.
This wall limits on all the height of the building the space of the entrance hall, which is surrounded on the rest of the perimeter by small showrooms as well as by the reception, the cloakroom and the bookshop at the ground floor. Spaces intended for the temporary and permanent exhibitions are not different, opting for a flexibility appropriate to the current trend of functioning of museums.
The rooms of all the floors can be opened on the hall or closed by removable panels until 4m of height, allowing the entrance of natural light from the hall and between this height and the ceiling.
The rooms of the last floor receive the natural light through small windows established by a double glazing with an intermediate access for the household and the regulation of the light. The space of the hall receives the light by small windows situated on the terrace and by openings outside of the wavy wall.
The vertical accesses are situated in each of the extremities of showrooms. They also include a system of banister with a slope between 8 and 9 %, the development of which takes place partially inside the space of the hall and partially outside, establishing galleries which surround the volume of the building, opened punctually on a wonderful landscape.
Museum Iberê Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brésil
Architect : Alvaro Siza Vieira
Client : Fondation Iberê Camargo