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Arcaeological Museum. Troglodythic study center.

Part 2 Project 2005
Pavel Cosmin
 Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism | Romania


A key word of the project is the coexistence, the simultaneity of distinct temporal layers. On this historical background of sedimentation and subsidence of temporal sequences, the project is adding another one : the today, the forein layer.
The purpose is to produce an act of architecture in order to extend the underground dimension of the site. Following a dynamics of simple gestures, the architecture is grafting into the relief, and produces an inlay, a delicate scratch on the limit-surface. Entering a soft fluctuation process the museum mixes with the topography and ends by becoming topography.
Porosity vs compactity




- One of the most appreciated diploma projects by the intarnational jury in the 2005 summer session
- Elegant and subtle insertion of a complex program into an archaeological site
- Strong contrast between exterior minimal appearence and the interior diversity
- An attitude presented at its limits
2005
In the year 100000 B.C. a reef pull out a lake from the Sarmatian Sea. The lake becomes river. The river breaks the reef, and makes valleys. An act of architecture. The museum seats on “topological instance”, a inflexion curve in the landscape
The cultural dimension of the site. A series of Metamorphosis. A series of reductions, of kneadings of the primal leaven, an order of sublimations. The place is highly punched-300 antropical caverns forms an impressive troglodytic complex aligned to cany
The operational concepts: -to uncover the limit-surface -to discover the main lines-of-force that embodies into the site -to align the dispersion-paths -to connect the built-up to a cosmically form of logic
The dynamic of gestures that generates the evolution of the project Diffusion of the internal forces Concentration of the internal forces
The site plan- the museum bends, inserts itself into the mountain, generating an in-side space. A place to meet the Other, or an invasion an excess of Others.
Conference level plan
Main entrance level plan
Middle age exhibition level
Troglodytic exhibition level The in-side sequence of the museum ends here, but a pedestrian path way prolonges the visit on the mountain. The museum starts to dissolute itself in the landscape
Different sections showing the evolution of the "built-in" along the loft path
Digging procedures and excavations
The only "elevation" consists of a series of "scratches", on the limit-surface
Presence-absence Night view
Entrance parvis
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