Baden-Baden, Germany
The museum for the Frieder Burda collection of twentieth-century art has been designed to blend into the landscape of the Lichtentaler Allee Park and, at the same time, to harmonize with the classical profile of the adjacent Kunsthalle. The overall form and proportions of the new building correspond to the elevated plinth and entablature of the Kunsthalle, but each institution maintains its own tectonic identity.
Nestled amid the majestic trees of the park, the new three-story museum is accessed from a main portico facing east. At the second floor a glazed bridge links the building to the plinth of the Kunsthalle. This bridge has been delicately detailed so as to intrude as little as possible on the character of the existing museum.
Upon entry, visitors turn right through the lobby/reception area to arrive at a transverse four-story ramp-hall set on axis with the bridge link to the Kunsthalle one floor above. Together with an adjacent elevator, this primary means of vertical circulation affords access to a second major gallery suspended above the ground-floor gallery and also to auxiliary exhibition volumes on both the lower ground floor and on mezzanine levels overlooking the entry.
The main upper exhibition volume extends across the full width of the building, thus giving the impression that the gallery is floating. It is accessed by the ramp hall via a bridge that allows for views back to the surrounding park or to the lower level. The recessed floor plate of the upper gallery and the bounding walls of the lower gallery enable natural light to penetrate to the lower level.
标志性艺术收藏品的优雅之家与宁静的度假小镇中的古典艺术馆进行了雄辩的对话。
该博物馆是专门为收藏 Frieder Burda 的二十世纪艺术收藏而设计的。它的场地也提出了一个独特的挑战，因为新建筑必须融入 Lichtentaler Allee 公园的景观，同时与相邻的 Kunsthalle 的古典轮廓相协调。作为回应，新建筑坐落在公园雄伟的树木之中，而其整体形式和比例与艺术馆的高架基座和柱顶相呼应。
这座三层楼的博物馆可从朝东的主门廊进入。在二楼，一座玻璃桥将建筑与艺术馆的基座连接起来。这座桥经过精心设计，以尽可能少地干扰现有博物馆的特色。进入后，游客右转穿过大厅到达一个巨大的坡道，该坡道与连接上一层艺术馆的桥位于轴线上。这个坡道提供了整个建筑垂直循环的主要方式，提供了通往悬挂在底层空间上方的主要画廊以及位于底层和俯瞰入口的夹层的辅助展览空间的通道。
顶层的主要展览空间可通过中央坡道的一座桥进入，横跨建筑物的整个宽度，给人的印象是画廊是一个漂浮在结构其余部分之外的空间。同时，自然光可以围绕这个体积流动，穿透到较低层的其他画廊。
