National Museum of Afghanistan by Scale Architecture

ArchiPro Project Summary - Shortlisted entry for the National Museum of Afghanistan, featuring a glistening main building that symbolizes unity and progression, with innovative public and private space integration to enhance the museum experience.

Title:: National Museum of Afghanistan
Architect:: Scale Architecture
Category:: Planning/Renders

International Ideas Competition.
Shortlisted competition entry.

Our proposal for the National Museum of Afghanistan aims to deliver a world class Museum and signal the gradual reversal of the decline of Kabul’s once great building fabric.

The main building “container” is a pure, glistening object, reflecting it’s surroundings and hovering above it, detached and holding it’s precious cargo. Elevated to the height of the surround wall it stands as a symbol of unity and progression towards the bright future of Kabul.

From afar the main building “container” reads as a clean monolithic object. It is pure in form, whole and complete. On approach a detailed texturing is revealed providing scale, rhythm and an ordering device for the functions within.

Re-thinking the ideas about art and collection strategy results in an alternative approach to the ordering of public and private space within the museum building. Controlled exposure to the inner workings of the museum extends the traditional museum experience.

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