brick:Peter Zumthor, Kolumba
peter zumthor, kolumba art museum
Project: Kolumba Art Museum
Designer: Peter Zumthor
Location: Cologne, Germany
peter zumthor, kolumba art museum
” The new Kolumba Art Museum designed by Peter Zumthor transfers the sum of the existing fragments into one complete building.”
peter zumthor, kolumba art museum
peter zumthor, kolumba art museum
peter zumthor, kolumba art museum
” The warm grey brick of the massive building unite with the tuffs, basalt and bricks of the ruins. Inside the building a peaceful courtyard takes the place of a lost medieval cemetery. The sixteen exhibition rooms possess the most varying qualities with regard to incoming daylight, size, proportion und pathways. What they all have in common is the reduced materiality of the brick, mortar, plaster and terrazzo in front of which will appear the works of art.”
peter zumthor, kolumba art museum
Hi
I am doing a project on the Kolumba Art Museum, and can seem to find any scale plans anywhere. Do you have a CAD file of the plans, or any scale drawings with an accurate scale, they would help immensely.
thanks, keep up the great blog.
jonny
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I am also doing a project on this building and you can find the plans of this buidling in the book called “Peter Zumthor works buildings and projects 1979-1997″
About the brick pattern, it allows light to penetrate into the building. But how to solve ‘water-proof’ problem and how to put insulation?
Maybe it’s solved by a two layered brick pattern wall, with a inner glass leaf.
Which i don´t think so.
Perhaps the area close by those walls allows a non-conditioned space and.
I think that, in this case, there isn´t a ‘water-proof’ problem inasmuch as these are ruins.
This style of brick work is inspired by Indian architecture. It is called “Jali” walls.