056 Sammlung Goetz, Munich. Museum for a Private Collection of Contemporary Art

Project: 1989-1990
Realization: 1991-1992

The gallery is a freestanding volume situated within a park-like garden of birches and conifers between the street and the house from the 1960s. Thus the building can be used both as a public as well as a purely private gallery; a role that is to be settled in the future. The building’s architectural conception corresponds to the character of the works that the collector has brought together over the last 30 years, embracing the art of the 1960s to today: Nauman, Ryman, Twombly, Kounellis, Federle, Rückriem and others.

A timber configuration rests on a reinforced-concrete base of the same dimension that is half buried so that only its upper glazed perimeter is visible from the outside. A similar matt glass strip surrounds the timber volume at the uppermost section, admitting diffuse glare-free daylight from a height of 4 meters into the exhibition spaces. The walls within the exhibition spaces are between 4 and 5.5 meters high.

Two reinforced-concrete tubes are set laterally between the lower and upper galleries. The larger of the two serves as the office and reception. Depending on the daylight conditions and the point of view of the observer, the gallery appears either as a closed, flush volume consisting of related materials (birch plywood, matt glass, untreated aluminum) or as a wooden box, resting on two trowels in the garden.
Herzog & de Meuron, 1996

Process

The facade radiates a certain classic assertion and comes alive through the interaction of the surrounding nature and light with the materials. Library, reception hall and infrastructure are located within the two square concrete tubes that support the upper floor.

The view from the street through the wooden fence enhances the horizontal dimensions of the building.

The interior offers variable and always surprising lighting conditions. A: large exhibition gallery in the basement; B, C: staircase; D: view of the three exhibition galleries on the upper floor.

Drawings

Team

Partners: Jacques Herzog; Pierre de Meuron; Robert Hösl (Partner in Charge)
Project Team: Stefan Goeddertz; Tobias Winkelmann; Mario Meier

Facts

Planning: Associate Architects: J.P. Meier-Scupin, Munich
Building Data: Gross floor area (GFA): 7'534 sqft, 700 sqm; Gross volume (GV): 127'132 cbft, 3'600 cbm
Links: www.sammlung-goetz.de

Bibliography

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