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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum in Cagliari, Italy by Zaha Hadid AchitectsApril 7th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Zaha Hadid Achitects The new museum for Cagliari serves as a landmark for the city – welcoming visitors from the sea, sharing its public dimension with the urban complex through a network of public paths. These paths continue within the building’s interior, forming spaces for exhibition, communication and transit.  Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum
 Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum
 Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum Our concept envisages the museum as a ‘node of cultural exchanges’ – as a structure which serves as a seaward landmark for the city of Cagliari and, through a network of public paths, interconnects and shares its public dimension with the urban centre it serves. Geometrically aligned with the sea, the ‘Nuragic’ also extends its arms towards the quarter of S. Elia. This building equates to a ‘coralline concretion’ – empty inside, hard and porous on the surface, yet able to accommodate, through its continuous osmotic exchange with the exterior, a range of cultural activities and experiences. At times it assimilates to the ground, creating a new landscape, at others it acquires a strong mass, defining a new skyline.  Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum The openness and dynamic nature of its silhouette is continued inside, where the circulation of visitors along different paths determine the geometry of its spaces. Deliberate erosion forms a vast cavity which reveals a succession of open spaces for use in many different ways. The building’s inner cavity is defined by two continuous skins, one within the other, with museum resources placed between the two.  Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum Pathways containing communication, contemporary and Nuragic exhibitions constantly intercept and bisect other public areas, giving the building a great sense of fluidity and enormous flexibility. Construction of the building is phased, echoing the self-regulating growth of living organisms and allowing the museum to define first its own inner spaces, before transforming its surrounding landscape and finally ‘growing’ towards the city of Cagliari.  Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum  Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum  Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum  Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum  Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum  Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum
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