Cornish Architects - Short-Listed on Major Museum Competition
Cornish Architects has been short-listed in
competition to design a new museum and exhibition space
for a major UK charity based in central London.
The proposed building will not only serve to house the
organisation’s collection of rarities but will also be a
public interface to raise awareness of the charity and
help recruit volunteers and attract donations.
The designated site for the museum consists of
part-basement and part-undercroft space that is
currently used for parking and storage. Cornish
Architects’ designs have given careful consideration to
how the building can interact with and attract the
passer-by. The plans create a semi-public space between
existing pillars of the undercroft and create a glazed
enclosure incorporating displays within the glass skin.
The external space together with the glazed skin will
draw people in from the pavement and will blur the
delineation between outside and inside space. Their
analysis also considers extending the ground floor and
linking it with the basement via a vertical circulation
route that will provide display areas to link the lower
and upper volumes.
Inside, display cabinets holding the charity’s
exhibition pieces, will sit alongside versatile display
walls, all of which will be considered under the
guidance of the museum’s curators.
Elizabeth Dabell, Director of Cornish Architects
comments:
“We are delighted to be short-listed on this prestigious
project. Our designs for the building not only aim to
showcase a remarkable collection but also seek to
increase awareness of the vital day-to-day work that the
charity carries out. In this building we hope to embody
the role that the organisation has played historically
and the role that they intend to play into the 21st
century.”
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