: Competition for a New Museum
Our competition entry for the new Museum in Louvain-La-Neuve in Belgium is both an urban design + an architectural proposal. The project is based on the conviction that the Museum needs to create a link between this university town (built in the 70s) + the Lake.
The building is a 123m long gallery, set along a new open garden gently sloping towards the lake. The building is designed as a gallery with a colonnade facing the garden; it offers a continuous public space at ground level (entrance, atrium, restaurant etc..) connected with the new garden, while flexible top-lit gallery spaces are located above, offering a variety of spaces + view towards the Lake + the university town.
The project was selected following a first stage urban-design competition for the second stage of the competition.
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