National Park Centre
NATIONAL PARK CENTRE
Valerio Olgiati
ARCHITECTS
Valerio Olgiati
PHOTOGRAPHS
Javier Miguel Verme
YEAR
2008
LOCATION
Zernez, Switzerland
CATEGORY
Exhibition Center
Text description provided by architect.
The exhibitions are held in the new visitors centre. The administration is in the old castle building; the hall, foyer and seminar space are in the stables.
From outside the new building seems extremely regular, it has no emotional expression, so to speak.
The inner spatial development is the product of antitheses: of concealing and revealing, heaviness and lightness, regularity and irregularity.
The windows are slightly more horizontal in format, producing an “observing” view in all directions from each room.
The exhibition spaces can be properly blacked out and all have the multi- functional technical facilities required for contemporary exhibitions.
