{"id":28425,"date":"2016-06-16T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/?p=28425"},"modified":"2016-06-09T16:23:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T14:23:40","slug":"estonian-national-museum-dgt-architects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/estonian-national-museum-dgt-architects\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonian National Museum – DGT Architects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Estonia, as\u00a0all the Baltic countries, is experiencing a time of rebuilding their long blurred national identity<\/strong> from a twentieth century marked by invasions, with a short period\u00a0of independence from the Soviet Union from 1920 to 1938, when it was again annexed to the Soviet Union and then, during the war, occupied by\u00a0Third Reich,\u00a0only to be\u00a0re-occupied by the Soviet Union in 1944 until 1991.
\nThe awakening from a such complex history was not easy, but the will of\u00a0undertaking a social and economic reform program has been strongly manifested through the creation of an\u00a0Estonian National Museum in the city of Tartu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The project is the result of an international competition held in 2005, won by the young French office\u00a0DGT<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>and a subsequent complex process of construction lasted almost ten years: a slow construction as indeed it\u00a0is the slow mending of a culture.
\nDorell, Ghotmeh and Tane decided to build 34,000 square meters of the new museum regaining possession of a nearby runway at a former Soviet military base<\/strong>, a present ‘ruin’ of a painful history. This proposal defied the demands of the competition brief, but eventually it was\u00a0successful.
\nThe long ramp traced by the track becomes the roof of\u00a0areas housing\u00a0a permanent collection of more than 140,000 objects, a large auditorium, a public library, educational rooms, as well as caf\u00e9 and restaurant. The facade is like a thin glazed separation between inside and outside, so the lost bounaries allow to live from the inside the extraordinary Estonian nature made of woods and lakes. The museum becomes an expansion towards infinity, inviting the visitor to enter both the countryside and the heart of the museum.
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DGT’s project\u00a0was recently awarded by the\u00a0AFEX Grand Prix dedicated to the architecture designed by French designers abroad. The work was awarded on the occasion of the 15 Biennale of Architecture in Venice and the maquette of the\u00a0Estonian National Museum is exhibited in the Arsenale.
\nThe winners of the three previous\u00a0AFEX Grand Prix were Christian de Portzamparc for the Arts Centre in Rio de Janeiro in 2014, Terreneuve and Adam Yedid for ilLiceo French in Dakar, Senegal in 2012, and Dominique Perrault for EWAH University in Seoul, Korea in 2010.<\/p>\n

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