The position, the nature and even the extent of the institutionalized museum, which consists of the placement of an extensive ground floor building within the park are redefined. The aim is to create a building that will be seen as landmark for the city while incorporating both the scale of the local neighborhood and the openness of the park -and thus- a museum that remains closely associated to both the contemporary and the symbolically charged historical landscape. The proposal consists of a type of building that serves as a threshold between park and city, growing as a boundary defined line; a structure that finally appears "non-built" but serves mostly as a path, parallel to the axis of the proposed promenade.

Exploiting the hidden urban reserve, the building is developed as a cast-cave-in depth of two floors below ground. There are two main accesses that lead, through a system of ramps, to the single foyer, located on the first level. This foldable system of ramps distributes moves bilaterally across the bottom level of the main exhibition and then gradually ascends, in a circular path that leads to the same initial space of the single first level foyer. Thus, resulting in simple closed loop movements which are necessary for such a building's proper function. Natural lighting is also achieved through this system, featured by a folding land frontier between park and building; similar to these folding geometrical landscape slopes that are used to form the boundary of the park throughout the whole master-plan. The museum becomes a point of observation, both from and toward the city, as it is traversed by points or peaks that serve as landmarks above ground, reminiscent of contemporary urban geometry.

The building carries a mixed structure of both reinforced concrete plates and extensive regional walls, and slender metal pillars -arranged in grid construction- ordered by 9x9 meters apart. The aboveground parts of the building are metal frames covered by u-glass for simultaneous insulation and transparency. Additionally green roofs, which consist of the natural flora of the park, are added toward the improvement of both the buildings' isolation and environmental conditions, while the linear, symbolic, structure of the building remains discreetly visible.

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