I n g r e s M u s e u m E x t e n s i o n

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PRESENTATION 16th Dec.

I n g r e s   M u s e u m   E x t e n s i o n 

The final project of the Ingres Museum extension is the result of a series of transformations and changes from the first proposal that I presented. However, I try to maintain the main ideas of the project, as they are, the visual and physical connection between the Ingres museum and the new extension, a dynamic and free path, a staggering of voids in the different levels, and later, an iconic and monumental element, which is the tower. 

The building try to fill the empty of the plot, at the same time that appears like an extension of the facade of the Ingres museum. The horizontal volume try to integrate with the environment, like a introverted and reserved box. The entrance is not show immediately, because visitor have to descend through a ramp until a lower level, in where emerge a little and dark courtyard between two huge walls generating an oppression sensation. 

Then, upon entering the museum appear a great hall below of the steel and glass tower. The different equipment’s, like the conference room, the toilets, the bookshop and etc., are located radially to this space, at the edges, for achieve to meeting square. 

The circulation is organized within of the glass tower through some suspended stairs. The exposition rooms are divided in tree zones because of the appearance of the empties that cross all the plans or levels. The first space is the exposition area, the second is the transition space, and the third is the exterior area that the visitor can observe an interesting views and perspectives of the building, and also of the river, through a horizontal windows that rip the facade. 

In the end of the museum path the visitor arrives to great picture window that it can observe the Ingres museum, in where is performed a little intervention, that consist in the introduction of the suspended metallic box, that contains a sculpture of a Ingres painting girl in gold stabilizing a psychological and visual connection between the visitor a both buildings. 

Finally, if the visitor want to enjoy of the privileged and wonderful views of the riverside, it can to ascend to the highest level of the tower. This area, is a polyvalent space that it can be a bar, exposition room or meeting place. 

The building is constructed mainly in concrete the horizontal part, and in metallic structure the tower that become less invasive and shocking than a concrete tower. The wall surface of the facade is built in pigmented scratched concrete, to provide a sensation of greater weight and roughness. The lower floor facade is built in U-Glass, that try to give the sensation that the heavy horizontal volume float.