Porsche-Museum in Gmünd (Carinthia, Austria)

Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, FH Kärnten

Project idea

The idea of the newly built Porsche-Museum is to create a building which stays always in the background and keeps the exhibition in the foreground and guides the visitor like on a tour on a racetrack through it with several stops.

Project description

The existing ensemble has been completely restructured, which means that the previous exhibition space will be relocated to a new building, thus redesigning the existing premises. The new building consists of single monolithic tamped concrete wall slabs that create different spaces and free or obstruct glances. By omitting wall slices, openings are created which allow indirect light to penetrate into the interior and allow targeted views to the outside. The museum is on 2 levels. The spaces flow into each other, like a spatial continuum, and have different proportions and themes. This makes the new museum a real experience, as there is always something new behind every wall.

Technical information

The tamped concrete walls are following the city fortress wall, to connect visually the inner-city with the Museum.

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