Taking home third place in the Liget Budapest competition, the Laboratory for Explorative Architecture and Design (LEAD) has proposed a colorful design for Budapest’s new photography and architecture museums. A stunning shade of blue, the undulating buildings will mark the entrance to Budapest City Park, and provide a new cultural hotspot for Hungary’s capital city.
这两座博物馆建筑最令人瞩目的是其庞大、流线型的屋顶。这种用木质胶合层积材设计成网状构成屋顶梁体,不仅使建筑结构变轻,其独一无二的设计更是完美地融入了周边自然景观和博物馆主题。屋顶蓝色外观是由一片片蓝色琉璃片组合。琉璃瓦是能满足屋顶卷状设计的少数材质之一,也是现今匈牙利流行的建筑装饰。琉璃自身蓝青色的格调使得博物馆酷似冬日里树木的华盖,同时让这个有高度辨识感的项目与周围环境区分开。
Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the two museums is their large, curving roofs. Built out of glulaminated timber beams, shaped into catenary curves to reduce structural stress, the unique shape of these roofs are meant to connect them to the organic nature of the park, and to cater to the needs of the interior program. Their blue co