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Bauhaus Container

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Shortlisted Projects 2015- finalist Project Team 1 st phase: Irgen Salianji, Karolina Szóstkiewicz Project Team 2 st phase: Irgen Salianji, Karolina Szóstkiewicz, Alberto Salvador Martin Landscape Architect: Marina Kounavi Curatorial Consultant: Liana Sofiadi Statement The Bauhaus Container proposal suggests a connection of all the Bauhaus fragments in Dessau by addressing the museum as the first stop for visitors that arrive in the city through the train station. Designed with the fundamental principles of the Bauhaus School, such as the free plan and the iconographic volumetric abstraction, the museum performs as a physical and conceptual link between the history of the Bauhaus School and the urbanity of Dessau . The Bauhaus Container is a modest and efficient pavilion-building that merges with the landscape of the City Park, yet at the same time it engages with the continuum of the city fabric on the street level.  Cityscape & Urban Development The museum establishes a str...

Bauhaus City

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Competition Project 2015 Statement Bauhaus City proposes a dynamic programmatic organization of a museum that brings together the exhibitions of the Bauhaus archive and the urbanity of Dessau into one single architectural gesture. Making a direct link between the historical fragments of Bauhaus and the overall impact of modernity in Dessau’s urban archeology, the proposal moves beyond the need to construct a building and instead suggests the clustering of an urban curatorial apparatus within the explicit frame of a rectangular porous envelope. The Bauhaus Museum performs as a cultural city within the city of Dessau. Concept/Urban Presence The proximity of the site with the train station and its position on the edge between the City Park and the center of Dessau, generates the question of whether the Bauhaus Museum should perform as an urban structure that opens to the city or as a landscape pavilion that is integrated in the park. We propose a museum building that is itself organized a...