FOSSIL
location: | Kusel, Germany |
project year: | 2006/07 |
attended: | Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Michael Schanné |
type: | Museum |
collaboration: | Michael Iking |
The primeval world museum on the castle area of Kusel presents itself, on the basis of the exhibit, as a careful intervention of human into nature.
Like a preservation of fossil, the architecture from available rock formation seems to arise, and bump by the surface in area of the hillside.
In connection with wall discs the inner space gets protected and form is given to the building.
The main part of the exhibition space rests subterraneously. Where the building is above ground, one recognises the horizotal stratification of local rocks.
Daylight appears through a layered arrangement
of glass and let the building provide the right atmosphere for fossils.
perspective
floorplan below ground
floorplan above ground
elevation
longitudinal section
entrance
inside view
exhibition hall
rooftop
cross section
detail section
detail section
model top view