DANUBE Sediment Museum

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia

Project idea

The Danube Museum is any system that the river creates and shapes over time.


Each hell, meander, part of the riverbed, embankment, and even the bed itself - carry countless information about the history and character of the Danube - the force that created them. Since its existence, the Danube has been "uncontrollably" producing its landscapes, affecting the narrower and wider environment in its basin.

The potential that allows us to control the movement and amount of sediment in the Danube (as well as its extraction and recycling - or use as a building material) is precisely that we can create our own, appropriate conditions and recreate the phenomenon of the DANUBE MUSEUM: sediment museum.

Project description

Any information about the history of the land (and therefore of water surfaces) is most easily and most often seen through a vertical section.
The cross-section through the field represents a kind of journey through time, deposits, events, weather conditions, culture ... - all aspects that the museum should cover with its function / performance and architecture / appearance.

In addition, each section has a dynamic overtone and the formation of a vertical structure that can be seen through this plan contributes to a special atmosphere that invites participation and observation from multiple angles (as well as over a longer period of time), while clearly indicating differences between observer and artifact.

On the other hand, sediment (sand, silt, organic matter, ...) produced structures are constantly changing over time. For that reason, the method of researching the architecture of the building itself is analysis in relation to the changing environment, with the awareness that the project is a large-scale intervention, which shapes the entire landscape, and represents a physical, ecological and cultural benchmark in the wider environment.

Technical information

The choice of location for the project itself is a consequence of research and mapping of all sediment systems along the Danube (from the mouth to the delta). This principle can be applied at all locations where there is a significant and noticeable movement of the river, in order to control the flow of traffic, as well as the possibility of functioning of the waterway itself, which can be interrupted by sediment accumulation.
The Danube in the observed area (Special Nature Reserve "Upper Danube") is a natural border between Serbia and Croatia in the length of 145 km, which over time (with the movement of the river) has moved from the axis of the Danube waterway and is a national problem that can be solved for the future, by monitoring and extracting sediment from the river that causes the flow line to change.
This represents the main concept of the Sediment museum.

Documentation

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