‘MNCARS EXHIBITION SPACES’

‘MNCARS EXHIBITION SPACES’

‘MNCARS EXHIBITION SPACES’ is the proposal to develop new exhibition spaces for the permanent collection of Reina Sofía Museum. Area 3.600 m2

Madrid, Spain 2008.

The new rooms of the permanent collection of the Reina Sofía Museum respond to the curatorial concept that wishes to exhibit the collections grouped into thematic units associated with many other spatial units, as neutral as they are purposeful. Here architecture plays an essential role in the construction of space, while at the same time attempting to vanish in support of the works on display. In order to achieve this effect, much work has been done on the ideal proportions that make each room so balanced that at the same time as it constructs and delimits the space to make it straightforward and comprehensible, it is imperceptible to the viewer, who turns all his attention to the object of the visit. This process of making the architecture disappear has generated a huge amount of work to minimize any physical accident of the surfaces and to center the architectural resources in the construction of the walls, the floor and the ceiling. The design stimulates a conversation about the traditional idea of ??the flexible museum as an open-space industrial plan, remembering that, without underestimating that model, a set of permanent, linked rooms can be an arrangement open to a great diversity of formats as well.

DESIGN TEAM

Sergio Álvarez architects as ZONA architects, in collaboration with Cesar Cabanas

CLIENT

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía