RIGA CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM by OMA

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Premise Over the past 20 years two types of spaces have come to dominate the display of art. 1. The ‘pristine white room’, representing the view that the display of art is best served by an absence of context allowing the work to ‘shine’ autonomously and be perceived in its own right. 2. The ‘appropriated backdrop’: often old industrial remains of which the spaces are to provide ‘added drama’ to the art work. Such spaces have also in part accommodated a trend where the contemporary art work has become increasingly extravagant and occasionally too big to be housed in ‘traditional’ museum spaces. The proliferation of these two types of spaces has progressed to the point where they have become virtual ‘exhibition archetypes’. Every new museum now seems to face an almost ideological choice between the two. The premise of this project is precisely to negate such a choice. To avoid being a victim of history without resorting to its denial. It is an open secret that the presentation of art is not the only ‘function’ of the contemporary Museum. The very success of the institution – a pivotal centre of contemporary society – has accrued additional interests and powers that require their own infrastructure, in addition, but independent from the viewing of art. A new conceptual framework must be devised that accommodates both the museum’s traditional function and incorporates the additional roles and expectations the museum has acquired.

Project We imagine a museum in two parts in the form of a complete mutual dependency with a maximum interface between them. The existing power plant houses the educational, media-related and production sections of the museum. It houses a variety of experiences from video to research to public programs and performances: organized around the art without necessarily implying a direct confrontation with the art objects. 4

The exhibition space and the museum shop are located in an extended perimeter surrounding the existing power plant: a single continuous neutral space with a flat roof and a glass façade, embedding the old in the new making the powerplant work for the museum in a utilitarian rather than symbolic way. The use of the existing power plant (also for all the required technical and logistical services) allows this space to be evacuated of everything that would interfere with the relation between the viewer and the art object. In that sense this design accepts and accommodates the museums new functions and roles, but also restores the museum’s classical role: the organized contemplation of art.


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parenting room (15) public lockers (25) public phones (10) public toilets (500) events space (300) entrance hall (600) ticket counter (20) information service (15) cloak room (80) shop (200) cafeteria/restaurant (290) kitchen (60) picnic (100) conference/cinema hall (500) interactive centre/ computer centre (100) library (300) educational program (160) project workshops (140)

restoration + archive (2000) registration room (100) photo laboratory (60) acclimatization room (100) conservation/restoration workshop (550) wood workshop (100) metal workshop (60) framing premises (50) packing (150) workshop for computer administrators (70) workshop for storage electronic (40)

basic (permanent exhibitions) (1500) large exhibition hall (1500) small exhibition hall (800)

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restoration + archive (2000) registration room (100) photo laboratory (60) acclimatization room (100) conservation/restoration workshop (550) wood workshop (100) metal workshop (60) framing premises (50) packing (150) workshop for computer administrators (70) workshop for storage electronic (40)

staff workspace (300) studio (200) meeting rooms (180) security (45)

PRIVATE 40.8 % hidden mechanism

heating (113) cooling (113) ventilation (226) electrical control and switch room (85) water system (226) sewage system (57) telecom room (57) fire systems (85)

PUBLIC 59.2 % visitors space

PRIVATE 40.8 % hidden mechanism

staff workspace (300) studio (200) meeting rooms (180) security (45)

heating (113) cooling (113) ventilation (226) electrical control and switch room (85) water system (226) sewage system (57) telecom room (57) fire systems (85)

PROGRAM


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LEGEND 1 outdoor exhibition 2 children’s play space 3 picnic area 4 cafe + restaurant 5 public toilets 6 kitchen 7 garbage room 8 loading 9 registration 10 acclimatisation 11 electrical workshop 12 photography 13 staff toilets 14 boiler viewing area 15 storage 16 technical

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1 lobby 2 info centre 3 tickets 4 shop 5 permanent exhibition 6 small hall 7 large hall 8 steam boiler 9 storage 10 packing 11 framing workshop 12 green machine room 13 metal workshop 14 wood workshop 15 staff kitchen 16 security 17 public toilets 18 cloak room 19 lockers 20 creche 21 visting artists

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LARGE EXHIBITION HALL


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1 events space 2 moving platform 3 administration 4 restoration workshop 5 technical 6 steam boiler 7 storage 8 public toilets 9 cinema 10 visiting artists residence 11 visiting artist workshop

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TURBINE HALL EVENTS SPACE


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Storage A museum is an ambiguous treasure house of collections: part is on view and accessible, an often larger art is inaccessibly hidden in storage. The division inevitably implies editing: in or out? The essential Museum experience is based on selection (by unseen hands, for unarticulated criteria, from unknowable quantities). The museum is the only institution that systematically freezes its assets away. In the new museum the notion for storage should be emancipated. Combined with the appeal for a more customized individual museum experience, the rethinking of storage initiates a new way of conceptualizing ‘the collection’. Will the viewer liberated from curatorial editing have opportunities to make his/her own choices, to reshuffle works now chained together in prescribed narrative sequences and significant interpretations?

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SOUTH VIEW - ENTRANCE


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PRESERVATION


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DEMOLITION


Riga CAM adjusted brief areas 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5

Outdoor Program Carparking Bicycle Parking Coach Parking Service Entry Outdoor Exhibition Space

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Public Spaces Museum Entrance Hall/Foyer ticket counter information service cloak room museum shop cafeteria/restaurant restaurant kitchen/storage picnic seating area Conference/cinema hall Interactive Centre/ Computer Centre Library educational program project workshops children's play area

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OMA 3000 1000 360 1500+ 678 40 20 79 200 270 72 201 350 95 300 161 150 68

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Exhibition Areas Basic (permanent exhibitions) Large exhibition hall Small exhibition hall Outdoor Exhibition area (included above)

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Storage Facilities main storage spaces registration room photo laboratory quarantine/acclimatization room conservation/restoration workshop wood workshop metal workshop Framing premises Packing loading area workshop for storage electrician workshop for computer administrators workshop for storage electronic

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Administration and Studios Staff workspace Studio Meeting Rooms

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Not Included in initial brief Additional Toilets - male, female and disabled parenting room public lockers public phones security events space/multifunction room

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SUB TOTAL 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8

Technical Plant heating cooling ventilation electrical control and switch rooms water system sewage system telephone and communications room fire systems generators SUB TOTAL

1.0% 1.0% 2.0% 0.8% 2.0% 0.5% 0.5% 0.8% 1.30% 9.8%

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TOTAL NET AREA

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TOTAL GROSS AREA (ASSUMING 25% ADDITIONAL)

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credits Andrea Bertassi Anders Berensson Daniele de Benedictis Gabriela Bojalil Maria Derevencova Markus Dettling Arjan Geelhoed Reinier de Graaf Beth Hughes Soe Hwang Keigo Kobayashi Rem Koolhaas Klaas Kresse Ilze Kruskopa Mara Liepa-Zemesa Miho Mazzereuw Ludvig Netre Marc Paulin Todd Reisz Koen Stockbroekx Daliana Suryawinata Alice Wong

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