Daniel Libeskind | Museum Entrance Without a Front Door

Libeskind | Museum Entrance Without a Main Door
No entrance can be found on the new zinc-clad volume: its surface features only irregular diagonal slits as windows, and the volume itself is a jagged, folded line, completely enclosed. To enter, one must first walk into the adjacent Baroque-style old building, then descend from within the old building via an underground staircase towards the new wing—there is no ground-level connection between old and new, and this movement, which "requires passing through history to enter," is itself the content. The zinc cladding oxidizes over time into uneven gray. The slits emit interior light at night. Shot from the street during the day, the enclosed zinc volume is juxtaposed with the adjacent old building. Avoid: an entrance on the new building's exterior wall, regularly arranged slits, new and uniform zinc cladding, or a direct ground-level connection between old and new.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

新建的鋅板量體上找不到任何入口:表面只有一道道不規則的斜向切縫作為窗,量體本身呈鋸齒狀折線,完全封閉。要進去必須先走進旁邊那棟巴洛克式的舊建築,再從舊建築內部經由一道地下的樓梯往下、往新館的方向走——新舊之間沒有任何地面上的連接,這個「必須經過歷史才能進入」的動線本身就是內容。鋅板隨時間氧化成不均的灰。切縫在夜間透出室內的光。日間從街道拍攝,封閉的鋅板量體與旁邊的舊建築並置。避免:在新館外牆開設入口、切縫規則排列、鋅板嶄新均勻、新舊在地面直接相連。