{"id":658,"date":"2012-07-13T20:12:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T20:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/compositesandarchitecture.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2012-07-13T20:12:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T20:12:17","slug":"jean-nouvels-addition-to-the-reina-sofia-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreysler.zaab.org\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Jean Nouvel’s Addition to the Reina Sofia Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the main museums of Madrid, the Reina Sofia Museum<\/a> boasts a Jean Nouvel expansion<\/a> wrapped in a glossy red\u00a0lacquered\u00a0facade. Curving around corners and up into the building’s center, it is composed of large, light weight composite panels.<\/p>\n

Completed in 2005, this expansion to the 18th century building the museum is in housed the San Carlos Hospital until 1965. \u00a0Due to it’s ever-expanding collection, the institution contacted Jean Nouvel, who in turn came up with an addition that would be in his words, ‘in the shadow’ of the original building. “…for the existing museum must clearly dominate. It must impose its power simply and clearly.”<\/p>\n

The extension also contains a public realm, and, from the museum’s website: “In this way the Museum responded not only to its proposed needs, but also to a clear call to transform the neighborhood\u2019s surrounding environment. By creating a public square \u2013 as set forth in the building code of the new buildings and the southwest facade of the current Museum \u2013 a space within the city and for the city was created.”<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t