新国家当代艺术中心丨俄罗斯莫斯科丨WAI建筑智库

NCCA National Centre for Contemporary Art

(International Competition, Finalist, 2013)

Moscow

Manifesto

The NCCA is the new epicentre for the creation, study, and support of contemporary art in Russia.

Enhanced by the dialectic between the city and architecture, between art and the public, between landscape and building, the new NCCA marks a paradigm shift of international museology. By creating a building that invites and embraces the public through its open spaces the new NCCA blurs the lines between building and context, between art and life.

The NCCA is not a building in the city; it is an extension of it. The flexible autonomy of its spaces either enclosed or outdoors, makes it the first archetype of Museum as City.

Instead of emulating the boundary that usually separates museums from their context, the new NCCA building is an Open Museum. The arrangement of the volumes on the ground level allows the public to freely circulate through its open spaces creating a new urban museum experience.

The new NCCA is not a building within a park; the park and the building are inseparable. Linked by way of a harmonious symbiosis, a series of paths direct the public between metro station, park and building in an effortless journey that offers glimpses of outdoor sculptures in an environment for the contemplation of art.

The new NCCA brings art to the public. The building creates a promenade in which people interact with exhibition pieces featured in the public space and on the multiple terraces of the building.

The layout of the NCCA consists of a ground level that contains public programs, creative residences, office space, conference halls and the collection repository, and three volumes of varying heights that intersect at different points creating a maze of flexible exhibition space.

The NCCA is not just a center for the arts; it is a building as Manifesto.

Манифест

ГЦСИ – это новый центр зарождения, изучения и поддержки современного искусства в России.

Объединяя искусство с обществом, город с архитектурой, ландшафт со зданием, новый ГЦСИ олицетворяет собой сдвиг парадигмы в международном музееведении. Предложенное здание размывает границы между музеем и его контекстом, охватывая широкую публику, приглашая и связывая ее с искусством.

ГЦСИ – это не просто отдельно стоящее здание, но продолжение пространства города. Самостоятельность и гибкость его закрытых, полузакрытых и открытых пространств делает его первым в своем роде архетипом в формировании города как музея.

Новый ГЦСИ – это больше чем центр искусств, это здание как манифест.

Project:

New National Center for Contemporary Arts

Moscow

45,000m2

Program: Hall Zone, Creative Residences, Administrative Offices, Media Centre, Children Educational Centre, Exhibition Halls, Café, Store

Project Team

WAI Architecture Think Tank:

Cruz Garcia

Nathalie Frankowski

Edgar Garcia

Zhang Yanping

Yu Yihua

Anna Popova

Ilyas Sadybekov

Structure:

+G:

Felix Cruz Marcos

Laura Gil Santana

Technology and Sustainability:

Alejandra Garcia Hooghuis

Museology Consultant:

Evgenia Novgorodova