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Renzo Piano- Beyeler foundation museum
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HISTORY

Renzo Piano, an architect who tries to emphasize the era we live in a natural way but at the same time modern, making use of technology for their projects, which have a futuristic image making great use of engineering and aesthetics, his inspiration is the main user being implemented so that natural elements andorganic forms.
In 1991, Ernst Beyeler commissioned the Renzo Piano Building Workshop to design the museum. Beyeler a famous gallery of modern and contemporary art who has an extraordinary collection about 160 works from the protagonists of twentieth century art, he made exceptional organizing exhibitions that have amazed visitors from around the world; in 1991 he considered that he needs morespace to exhibit the paintings and sculptures so he reached an agreement with the small town of Riehen located 5km north of Baser near Swiss-German border to donate an extension you land to carry out the construction of the museum, funded personally by Ernst Beyeler, which would be public and private sectors.

STUDIO

The site where is the museum extends north along the road to get to Germany,and also it is linked to Basel, the greenery surrounding the museum are ancient trees of the park Berower from seventeenth century villa, and while you’re moving through the street it can see a landscape of fields extending into a valley.
Renzo Piano on this project thinks of something quiet, where you can have harmony into the place making that the interior space of the building have aconnection along with outer space; the goal of the museum is that the public may have an interaction with the art, find an innovator idea the involved the place with people and not only making a museum that only function is exhibitions, for these reason a 3th part of the building is destiny to temporal exhibitions, to emphasize a relation with the modern art.

The form of the gallery is principal basein four long parallel walls that can be the same shape and material with direction to north-shout, but inside are different in heights that shows to the visitors the road of the museum and also the views to the outside. On the southern point of the building, the ends of the walls are expressed below a great over-sailing roof as they run beyond distant openings to the galleries, there is a glasswall surrounds a long and narrow winter garden.
Noteworthy that the walls are not structural, those only have certain columns of 6 meters at the center to support the sailing. The long walls have 6.1 meters high sit under a lightweight crystalline roof canopy 28.3 by 127 meters in plan. All of the walls, including the one delineating the park, are covered with a type of stone that closelyresembles that of the Basel cathedral: a red porphyry mined in Patagonia.

GLASS SAILING

The roof is composed transparent and overhanging canopy with an steel structure that gives support to those glass layers comprising glass ceiling and internal louvers, double-glazing, and the posts that carry the exterior inclined glass shading. The objective of these sailing is the use of natural light intothe building to don’t lost the connection with the exterior and people can enjoy the quit of the place and beauty of the landscape, all these is a carefully study of natural lighting that also illuminate the small spaces although the exhibitions; also the use of material make the place peaceful and in certain way complete with the environment, permitting nature be part of the building.
“The glassroofing material has a surface area of 4,000 square meters and is supported by a welded horizontal grid of 250 x 140 mm steel box beams. Cast steel elements rise off of this grid to support the sun screens, which are set at an angle above the glass roof in order to shield it against the direct sunlight. The screens are made up of screen-printed, 12 mm thick, tempered glass plates capable of...