The New Museum of Nuragic and Contemporary Art

The project that we have decided to choose is the “Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum”, a building that displays a complex geometrical form, typical of Zaha Hadid’s architecture.

The new museum is like a coralline concretion, empty inside, hard and porous in the external surface, able to accommodate, in a continuous osmotic exchange with the external atmosphere, all the cultural activities in a lively and changing environment.

The building reconfigures an entire stretch of the seafront at Cagliari. The plastic nature of the new museum represents a mark of regeneration for the landscape of the gulf of Cagliari. With the interweaving of its sinuous built elements expresses the desire to found the new Museum on the interaction between the exhibits (related to Nuragic and contemporary art) and the movement of the users-visitors.

The circulation of the visitors models the internal space; that erosion forms a great cavity inside the building and articulates the volume in a succession of open space for exhibition, place of aggregation and occasion for installation of contemporary art.

The flows of the circulation, the contemporary and Nuragic exhibition and the public path crossing the building, create the fluid structure of the volume, allowing a variety of uses and configurations. The vertical and oblique elements of circulation create also zones of interference and turbulence, that form a visual continuity between the different part of the building.

Such spaces, visible from a variety of viewpoints, display the perceptive and the aesthetic dialogue between the contemporary and the Nuragic art. The inner cavity allows the genesis of two continuous skins, one contained within the other: the “external skin” of the facade system and the “inner skin”, which is equipped with a flexible serial system of anchorage and electrification, that can support surfaces/walls for installations or video projections