NEW MUSEUM BUILDING FOR THE TOCHOBAN FOUNDATION, MUSEUM FOR ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING DESIGNED BY SPEECH

The new museum building for the Tchoban Foundation – Museum of architectural drawing – designed by SPEECH in Moscow, operated by the architects Sergei Tchoban and Sergei Kuznetsov, lies at the entrance to the complex, and adjoins the firewall of the protected landmarks building located at Christinenstraße 17. The building is conceived as a part of the “Pfefferberg” complex as a whole, and was not erected on an individually defined parcel of land.

The five-story building, executed in solid construction with basement, rises above a rectangular plan. The entrance lies on the northwest side of the building, where the façade drops back. The individual stories project at various depths and angles from the wall alignment in a way reminiscent of a set of slidable “drawers” within which drawings are stored. The building also generates the impression of being constructed of drawings (i.e., via the impressions of drawings imprinted on the outer façade), at the same time resembling a stack of storage shelves. The building`s exposed concrete shell takes the form of a monolithic, windowless volume without joints. With the exception of the topmost level, the entire structure is covered in reliefs generated by means of matrix formwork. The fine relief texture, interspersed with architectural motifs, and the yellowish-gray coloration of the concrete, refer subtly to the function of the building and its collection: to parchment as supporting material for architectural drawings.


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