Architectural drawing welcomes the visitor even before entering the building: On the sand-coloured concrete façade of the museum, large-format fragments of historical architectural drawings illustrate the contents of the building. Using complicated formliner formwork, sketches by Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga and Angelo Toselli were attached to the in-situ concrete façade in a repetitive row. The entire building is carried by the spirit of architectural drawing. As a four-storey solid building with a glass penthouse, the volume completes a row of Berlin apartment buildings. At the two exposed corners of the building, the closed bay windows protrude like loosely stacked archive boxes at different angles over the edges of the floors below. The ingenious façade pattern is only broken open by small windows cut obliquely into the concrete surfaces from cathedral glass. Visitors enter the museum through the incised entrance niche and find the leitmotif of the architectural drawing here again in a wide variety of details: on the deeply fluted wooden door, the walnut panelling in the foyer, the seating furniture or the door handles. The functions of the interiors are clearly structured and follow the vertical division: reception and edges on the ground floor, technology and sanitary rooms in the basement, two differently cut exhibition areas on the 1st and 2nd floors, the archive on the third and a small office and meeting area with terraces on top. From here, there is an unobstructed view over the Pfefferberg area to the east and the green Teutoburger Platz to the west. With its location, the museum benefits from its proximity to numerous cultural institutions, workshops and galleries on the former Pfefferberg brewery site. The building carries the highest standards of building physics and technical conditions for the presentation of high-quality works of art and historical documents to the outside world with serene dignity.
Client: Tchoban Foundation . Museum of Architectural Drawing, Berlin
GFA: 498 m2
Completion: May 2013
Work phases: 1-9
Architect: Sergei Tchoban, Sergey Kuznetsov, SPEECH, Moscow
Planning and construction management: TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten, Berlin
Project partners and leaders: Philipp Bauer, Ulrike Graefenhain
Collaborators: Nadja Fedorova, Katja Fuks, Dirk Kollendt, Frederik-Sebastian Scholz
Landscape planner: atelier 8 landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin
Statics: PPW Dipl.-Ing. D. Paulisch, Berlin
Building services: Planungsbüro Thye, Berlin
Lighting design: Kardorff Ingenieure, Berlin
Façade: MBM Konstruktionen GmbH, Möckmühl
Graphic concept façade: Heimann und Schwantes, Berlin
Façade consulting design: Priedemann Fassadenberatung GmbH, Großbeeren
Exposed concrete: BSS Beton-System-Schalungsbau GmbH, Berlin
Die production: Reckli GmbH, Herne
Expansion: Lindner AG, Arnstorf
Carpentry: Tischlerei Hollenbach, Berlin
Locksmith work: Wilking Metallbau GmbH, Berlin
Elevator: Tepper Aufzuganlagen GmbH, Münster
Advisors: Kristin Feireiss, Hans-Jürgen Commerell
Conservation Advice: Eva-Maria Barkhofen, Berlin
[Source: Tchoban Voss Architects] (https://tchobanvoss.de/projekt.php?r=419)
Photos: Roland Halbe
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