Building Type: Ludwig Museum / New National Gallery
Status: Competition Entry, “Liget Budapest” - Ranked top 13th among entries
Area: 33,700 m2
Site: Budapest, Hungary
Year: 2014
The objective of the Liget Budapest Project is to complete renewal of the green area of the City Park, and to place five new museums within the park.
Four elliptical openings are positioned to preserve valuable trees. The building is accessible both from Hermina Street and a great lawn through the courtyard, linking both the park and the city.
This proposal is a product of dualism seamlessly fused in mutual harmony; National Gallery and Ludwig, nature and culture, past and present, Buda and Pest.
An expanded aluminum mesh facade delicately enfolds a muscular truss system behind. The mesh provides a soft, uniform silhouette while providing shade for the building interior.
A capacious oval courtyard provides public entries for both art institutions, while saving precious existing trees.
A façade faces the park’s great lawn is mounted with a large projection screen. This screen may be used to show the museum’s cinema collections, or to show contemporary multi-media artwork.
This proposed structure, which houses two art institutions, the Ludwig Museum and the New National Gallery, is enfolded within an undulating expanded mesh façade.