CIRCLE

The client's brief was to unite art, culture, and nature. The ultimate goal was to create a true art house, where nature, art, and humanity could be one.

We wanted to integrate nature into the space through its phenomena. Capturing light, wind, and materiality, we therefore sought to create a place, an interstitial space, that would house a showcase of art, where the interior would merge with the exterior, so that nature and artifice would resonate and enter into a symbiosis that would bring out the culture of living.

Being there as a presence harmonizes with the environment and begins to vibrate and merge with the body of water from which the building emerges; this vibration harmonizes the environment and creates a place of calm and silence. The silence and apparent coldness are animated by the presence of man, and through the phenomena of nature, they awaken the senses and open the soul to a sense of belonging, stimulating culture.

The project originated within the Tiergarten park, in a location known by the name of the sculpture positioned at the center of the space. Amazone zu Pferde had to remain within the project; given the circular shape of the space, we conceived a truly circular building, yet one that would create a void. Within this void, at the center of this void, the statue of Amazone zu Pferde marks time and regulates the proportions of the space.
A convex roof creates the architecture and appears suspended in the air, accentuating the sense of suspension that contrasts with its materiality. A reinforced concrete wall delimits the space, and a glass wall open toward the center forms a gallery between the interior and exterior, where art can be displayed, as if in a display case, lending it a sense of sacredness.