Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has expanded the Serralves Museum in Porto, which he accomplished in 1999, with an angular extension housing a few of his archival works.
Named the Álvaro Siza Wing, the three-storey extension has a geometrical form that branches out from the present museum and slots in between the bushes in Serralves Park.
The Álvaro Siza Wing is the newest collaboration between the 90-year-old architect and the Serralves Basis – the cultural establishment behind the Serralves villa and museum, that are positioned inside the park.
It opened over the weekend with C.A.S.A., a showcase of labor by Siza, and a everlasting exhibition of the Serralves Basis’s archives titled Inconceivable Anagrams.
Siza accomplished the Serralves Museum in 1999 earlier than occurring to create the Manoel de Oliveira Cinema Home in 2019 and a gardener’s home and the restoration of the Serralves artwork deco constructing in 2021.
With the opening of the Álvaro Siza Wing, the Serralves Basis goals to have a good time its relationship with Siza whereas growing its capability to showcase its archive and visiting exhibitions.
“This museum deserved to beat the restrictions of house that constrained its capability for creative dissemination, and that is what introduced us right here,” stated the muse’s CEO Ana Pinho.
“This constructing represents a brand new milestone for Serralves whereas paying a well-deserved tribute to Álvaro Siza – one of many best names within the historical past of world structure.”
An elevated gallery bridges over an out of doors walkway to attach the Álvaro Siza Wing with the present museum.
“The brand new constructing maintains an ideal relationship with the constructing advanced,” stated the Serralves Basis.
The extension’s partitions are made out of strengthened concrete with cork insulation and lined with white-painted plaster on the outside. Granite panels type a gray band wrapping the underside of the partitions.
Inside, white plasterboard strains the partitions whereas geometric boards on the ceilings diffuse synthetic mild.
With one ground devoted to the Serralves archives and two flooring for artwork and structure exhibitions, the enlargement provides as much as 75 per cent additional house for the museum’s reserves and 5o per cent more room for brand spanking new exhibitions, in keeping with the muse.
The wing opened with the C.A.S.A. exhibition, an acronym for Coleção Álvaro Siza Arquivo, which explores the totally different meanings of the phrase “home” by the work of Siza.
“The Álvaro Siza Wing was constructed to be a home for the gathering, therefore why the primary and foremost chapter of the present was named Coming Again Dwelling, displaying the most important world ensemble of Sizian designs,” the Serralves Basis defined.
Different initiatives designed by Siza which were featured on Dezeen embrace a monolithic artwork pavilion in South Korea and a Manhattan skyscraper clad in limestone.
C.A.S.A. is on show on the Serralves Museum of Up to date Artwork in Porto, Portugal, from 24 February to 24 August 2024. See Dezeen Occasions Information for an up-to-date record of structure and design occasions happening around the globe.
