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ATHENS CITYSCAPE MUSEUM The New Archeological Museum of the Future
ATHENS CITYSCAPE MUSEUM The New Archeological Museum of the Future The new cityscape museum is a collective information center placed in a specific point (Next to Panathenaic Stadium) to represent the vicinity urban context and the urban artifacts. The museum will correspond to the axis of views from the architectural site. The network of these artifacts will mold the exhibition and program space by its core values with length, depth, height, distance, form and the inner volume. The museum will have a open plan to mix programs, allowing to let the artifacts, the urban context, research, and humans to interact without boundaries. Through this process, the viewers could understand the subject matter with more personal relationship towards the artifacts and the city.
Athens Museum Charter A.Location 1. The most ideal place for a museum should be in the central downtown area. 2. Museum constructed alongside major routes is preferable. 3. Museum should occupy the best places in the city from the point of view of accessibility. 4. The location should be determined by the zoning of the urban planning. 5. Museums should be provided with sufficient open space to meet reasonable needs for recreation and actives for children, adolescents and adults. 6. Interaction with the urban fabric is crucial for a museum. 7. Walking distance from the metro is favorable. 8. Visual accessibility from the city center is ideal. 9. Similar programs should be clustered to make a synergy. 10. Full advantages should be taken of existing natural features: rivers, forests, hills, mountains, valleys, lakes, sea, etc. 11. It should be possible to spend week-end free time in accessible and favorable places. 12. Museums should promote the creation of "landscape communities" aware of their identity, involved in their preservation, participating in their sustainable development. audio visuals, film and video, digital and telecommunication technologies.
B. Contents / Exhibition 1. An artifact should be representative of a historical culture instead of a representative of itself. 2. The content should be presented with multi level of information to the observers. 3. The value of a content will be set from its impact to the urban context. 4. A content with more historical importance should be more valued. 5. Visibility from the pedestrian effects the relative value towards the artifact.
6. Contents of the museum should be a network of other artifacts from different museums and the urban context. 7. Museums should be the monitoring for heritages out side of the museum walls. 8. Instead of purchasing every artifacts, a museum of network can share their collection. W C. Activity / Program 1. Museums tend to focus on the travelers instead of the local users. 2. Museum should be more like a community culture center than an exhibition space. 3. Museums has a special obligation to educate the cilivc. 4. Establish interdisciplinary approaches that bring together movable and immovable, tangible and intangible, natural and cultural heritage. 5. Make use of all media formats such as print, 6. Invites all relevant museums involved in the collection, preservation and promotion of the intangible heritage to give attention to the conservation of all perishable records. 7. Museums should be a regional offices for active protection of cultural heritage. 8. Museums should extend their responsibility from their collections to the cultural heritage and surroundings: their local towns, villages and communities.
D. Design 1. The design of the museum should be determined by its according urban context 2. Relationship between territory and museum should be in consideration 3. A Museum should be a bridge between the artifacts and its cultural and physical landscape.
FORMING PROCESS
SITE PLAN
TYPICAL MUSEUM PROGRAM
FUTURE MUSEUM PROGRAM
PROGRAM ORIENTATION
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SITE SECTION AND PROGRAMATIC VALUES
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AERIAL VIEW
WINDOW VIEW
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NORTH EAST STREET VIEW
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MUSEUM ENTRANCE
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CIRCULATION DIAGRAM
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1ST FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1"/64'
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2ND FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1"/64'
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3RD FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1"/64'
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4TH FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1"/64'
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MAIN LOBBY VIEW
1-1' SECTION PLAN SCALE: 1"/64'
ENTRANCE LOBBY VIEW
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AUDITORIUM VIEW
A-A' SECTION PLAN SCALE: 1"/64'
ACROPOLIS EXHIBITION VIEW
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SPIRAL PATH VIEW
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NORTH WEST VIEW
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