summary - GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

1. NAME OF PROJECT – GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
CLIENT - SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
ARCHITECT - FRANK O GEHRY.
STYLE – DECONSTRUCTIVISM
PURPOSE:-
BASQUE AUMOVING FORWARD WITH THE MUSEUM A SITE WAS SELECTED . THREE
ARCHITECTS WERE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE TO PRODUCE A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN THERE
WERE NO REQUIRMENTS IN TERMS OF DRWINGS AND MODEL . THE ARCHITECT WERE ONLY
ASKED TO PRESENT WHAT THEY THOUGHT WOULD CONVEY THEY THOUGHT WOULD CONVEY
THIER CONCEPT THORITY PROPOSED THE IDEA OF GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO TO THE
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM IN
SITUATED AT – BILBAO , SPAIN
CONSTRUCTION STARTED - OCT 1993
CONSTRUCTION FINISHED - OCT 1997
FAMOUS FOR - METAL CLADDING ( TITANIUM SHEETS ARE USDED ) , ADVANCED STEEL
STRUCTURE
INTERNAL FLOOR AREA – 23817 SQ. M
INTRODUCTION

2. THE CONCEPT

3. PLAN AND VIEWS
OFFICES
PARKING

4. PLAN AND VIEWS

5. INTRODUCTION
ARCHITECT : FRANK O GEHRY.
LOCATION : WEIL-AM-RHEIN, GERMANY
CONSTRUCTION
TECHNIQUE : METAL ROOF
CLIMATE : TEMPERATE
CONTEXT : SUBURBAN
STYLE : EXPRESSIONIST MODERN
•IT WAS THEN EXPANDED BY WRAPPING THE OLD
HOUSE WITH A METAL SLIPCOVER CREATING A NEW
SET OF SPACES AROUND ITS PERIMETER.
• AN EXISTING AND VERY PEDESTRIAN TWO-STORY
GAMBREL-ROOFED CLAPBOARD RESIDENCE HAD
MUCH OF ITS INTERIOR REMOVED AND WALLS
STRIPPED BACK TO THEIR ORIGINAL TWO-BY- FOUR
STUD FRAME, BEAMS, AND RAFTERS.
•CONTRAST IN SHAPES & FORMS

6. CHARACTERISTICS
POST MODERNISM
•POST MODERNISM IS A REJECION OF STRICT
RULES SAID BY THE EARLY MODERNISTS AND
SEEKS MEANING AND EXPRESSION IN THE USE
OF BUILDING TECHNIQUES, FORMS AD
STYLISTIC REFERENCES.
DOUBLE CODING
•THE BUILDING IS A TALL SKYSCRAPER
WHICH BRINGS WITH IT CONNOTATION OF
VERY MODERN TECHNOLOGY.
WHILE THE TP SECTION CONVEYS THE
ELEMENT OF CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY . THIS
DOUBLE CODING IS A TRAIT OF POST
MODERNISM.

7. CHARACTERISTICS
ILLUSIONISTIC BUILDING TECHNIQUES
POST MODERN BUILDINGS SOMETIMES
UTILISES TROMPE L’OEIL, CREATING ILLUSION
OF SPACE OR DEPTH WHERE NON ACTUAALY
EXIST .
GABLE ROOF
SHEDDING WATER AWAY FROM THE CENTRE OF
THE BUILDING , SUCH A ROOF FORM
ALWAYS SERVED A FUNCTIONAL PURPOSE IN
CLIMATES WITH RAIN AND SNOW , AND WAS A
LOGICAL WAY TO ACHIEVE LARGER SPANS WITH
SHORTER STRUCTURAL MEMBERS , BUT IT WAS
NEVER THE LESS RELATIVELY RARE IN MORDERN
HOUSES .
EXTERIOR AS A WHOLE
POST MODERNIST BUILDING WHERE A
STACK OF VARIED DESIGN ELEMENTS FOR
A SINGLE VOCABULARY FROM GROUND
LEVEL TO TOP