A group headed up by British company Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has been picked to layout a new conservation and storage centre for the Musée du Louvre, housing 250,000 works of art.
Situated 200 kilometres north of Paris in Liévin, the twenty,000-square-metre facility will be situated a short distance away from the French artwork museum’s not too long ago finished outpost, the Louvre-Lens.
The aim is carry collectively all of the Louvre’s reserve collection and to create one of Europe’s largest amenities for research and research. This will complement and assistance the collections at the Louvre-Lens and at the museum’s base in Paris, as effectively as the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which is due to open soon.
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners – which not too long ago completed a conservation and gallery wing at the British Museum in London – will operate in partnership with French landscape firm Mutabilis Paysage and consultants Egis Bâtiments Nord, Inddigo and VPEAS on the task.
Their proposal is for a creating set into the landscape, featuring a green roof and a glazed facade.
According to the design and style team, it will combine light-filled operating spaces with the latest technologies, guaranteeing functions of art are stored inside secure climatic problems and are protected from the threat of flooding.
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“The venture proposes innovative remedies in terms of sustainable growth and the building’s thermal mass,” said Jean-Luc Martinez, president of the Louvre.
“It is particularly commendable for providing a response that is perfectly in line with the prepare, to make sure stable climatic situations for storing artwork and for the organisation of day-to-day interactions in a one particular-storey room.”
The Louvre in Paris, housed inside the former Louvre Palace from which it takes its name, is a single of the biggest and most-visited museums in the world. The Louvre-Lens, its first public outpost, opened in 2012, in a constructing developed by Japanese studio SANAA and New York office Imrey Culbert. Development operate is due to finish on its next constructing – the Louvre Abu Dhabi designed by French architect Jean Nouvel – later on this yr, forming component of a new cultural district on Saadiyat Island.
In the fast vicinity of the Louvre-Lens, the new conservation and storage facility will bring together 250,000 artworks, which are at the moment dispersed across all around 60 locations.
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Building is due to get started in 2017 so that scientists and researchers will be capable to start off doing work there from late 2018.
“The architects also had people in thoughts when developing this light-filled space nestled in nature, taking into consideration the comfort degree of the personnel who will perform there, conducting research on the works of artwork,” added Martinez. “The new facility will be in ideal dialogue with its neighbour, the Louvre-Lens.”
The undertaking is expected to cost €60 million (£42.5 million). The Musée du Louvre will fund just more than half of the value, with the rest put forward by the regional council of Nord-Pas de Calais.
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Richard Rogers’ company – very best identified for projects which includes Lloyds of London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris – also recently redesigned a flatpack home initially produced by Jean Prouvé as a housing solution for victims of the second world war.
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