New Gallery and Casemates

New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer

NEW GALLERY AND CASEMATES

Bevk Perović arhitekti

AREA
2900 m²

YEAR
2019

PHOTOGRAPHS
David Schreyer

ENGINEERING
Fröhlich & Locher Und Partner

DESIGN TEAM
Matija Bevk, Vasa J. Perović, Johannes Paar, Christophe Riss, Mitja Usenik, Blaz Goričan Irene Salord Vila, Maša Kovač Šmajdek, Juan Miguel Hererro, Vid Tancer, Andrej Ukmar

LOCATION
Wiener Neustadt, Austria

CLIENTS
City Of Wiener Neustadt

CATEGORY
Gallery

Text description provided by architect.

The project is a result of a competition held in 2016 that set the task of making the casemates, an ammunition storage structure of the medieval fortress accessible to the general public in the form of a new cultural centre/exhibition venue for the small city of Wiener Neustadt.

New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer
New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer

The project deals with the issue of reconstruction and integration of historical layers into the life of the city - the historical complex, hidden for a long time, can be experienced and understood in its entirety while accepting a new programmatic definition.

New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer
New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer

The area in front of the casemates is conceived as a gently sloping public square that connects the level of the city to the semi-submerged level of the old structure, receiving visitors with a horizontally glazed ground floor.

New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer
New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer

The visitor is then led through the maze-like - almost ‘piranesian’ structure of the old casemates, that has been transformed into an exhibition venue for the city.

New multipurpose hall - a kind of Kunsthalle space, lit from above, happens at the end of the subterranean promenade, it provides a natural, contemporary conclusion of the complex.

New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer
New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer
New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer
New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer

A gentle slope connects the space of the casemates back to the level of the Stadtpark, thus finishing the topographical outline of the complex - from the city, through subterranean historical layers of the fortress - back to the surface of the city and the green park.

The discipline of intervention is stressed through the material definition of additions - the brick world of the historical structure is complemented and revealed through the cast concrete materiality of new additions - making the new and old visibly differ, yet appear united.

New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer
New Gallery and Casemates
© David Schreyer


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