Masterplan of the National Museum of Georgia, 2007 studiomilou architecture

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1 Masterplan of the National Museum of Georgia, 2007 studiomilou architecture

2 studiomilou architecture - The collection in the city Masterplan of the National Museum of Georgia,Tibilisi, 2007 The street of Museums The National Museum Masterplan proposes the development of a renovation project for the National Museum within the framework of a large-scale urban project that includes the creation of an urban district dedicated to the arts and to culture. This district will develop its own characteristic activities over time, and it will become an attraction in its own right within the city of Tbilisi. In order to develop the project in greater detail, and to bring in new ideas, Georgian architects were invited to enter an urban-planning competition, held in The results of this competition, the Art District Competition, were available in September Although no first prize was awarded, recommendations were formulated as a result of the competition in order to assist the authorities in formulating guidelines for the development of the district while respecting its character. Building of the NMG in the centre of Tibilisi The public will access the different activities organized by the Museums via Giudashvilli Street, which is a quieter street than Rustaveli Avenue which runs parallel to it.the latter avenue will feature the institutional façade of the National Museum of Georgia. Mobile kiosks serving as cafés with terraces will be placed along Giudashvilli Street, which will become a pedestrian area. Activities carried out in the street will be open to all, and parts of it will be covered by removable awnings. This street will become a space in which public activities organized by the Museums as a whole can be presented. A program of activities, including exhibitions, concerts and lectures, will be able to be held there each evening until 10 pm. This program of cultural activities organized by the Museums will serve to invite the public to enter the following public spaces: The Grand Auditorium of the Art Center (for concerts & films); The Small Auditorium of the Janasha Museum (for lectures, concerts, films, etc.); Three temporary exhibition galleries (housed in the Art Museum, the Janasha Museum & the Art Center); Five permanent exhibition areas (for daytime museum activities and evening activities).

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4 studiomilou architecture - Janashia Museum in the city center Janashia Museum Collection Masterplan of the National Museum of Georgia,Tibilisi, 2007 Janashia Museum Vistor route Janasha Museum A grand stairway leads from the entrance hall of the new Museum to the interior courtyard of the Janasha Museum.This courtyard will be open onto Giudashvili Street during museum opening hours. A large roofed porch and signage will indicate this linking gallery from the street. Museum Design Concept A chronological exhibition from prehistoric times to the modern age, interspersed with a series of representative objects that lead off into rooms containing distinct groups of objects. Themes presented in the Janasha permanent exhibition will include: Georgia in the world The formation of the Georgian landscape (geology, paleontology, flora and fauna); The major human migrations (Dmanisi) The major exchanges of Antiquity The Bronze Age, the Golden Fleece, and the establishment of the Greeks and Romans in the region; Georgia as a crossroads of different cultures Persian, Ottoman and Mongol; The formation of Georgian identity Language, religions and literature; The formation of modern Georgia The Russian Empire and the 20th century; Georgia under Soviet rule and the contemporary period Architectural Concept: A collection in the heart of the city The visitor itinerary will include views of the collection alternated with views of the street scene outside on Rustavelli Avenue. In the same spirit, transparencies will be installed at intervals on the building façade, allowing the Museum s activities to be seen from Rustavelli Avenue.

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6 studiomilou architecture - Fine Arts Museum in the city center Fine Arts Museum Collection Masterplan of the National Museum of Georgia,Tibilisi, 2007 Fine Arts Museum Vistor route Fine Arts Museum The Fine Arts Museum will have two entrances leading into the public entrance hall.the first of these is the historic entrance beneath the columns leading out onto Liberty Square, while the second is a new entrance that will be built leading out onto Giudashvilli Street. Signage on Giudashvilli Street will indicate the position of this new entrance. There will be direct access to the restaurant on the ground-floor level of the Fine Arts Museum from Giudashvilli Street.This entrance will be created by the addition of a further flight to the existing stairs, allowing visitors to make their way to the ground-floor level opening out on the garden. Signage on Giudashvilli Street will indicate the position of this entrance. Museum Design Concept A Museum of Fine Arts (painting, sculpture, drawings, film, photography and video) that includes works from the 17th century to the present day. This Museum, presenting the masterpieces of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, will also play host to the most contemporary forms of art. Architectural Concept Within the context of the rehabilitation of a representative historical building (1832) (conservation of the façades, stairways, halls and main galleries), the project proposes to restructure the interior in order to open up the space and to allow the alternation of spaces of regular height for small and mediumsized exhibit formats and of spaces of double height for large-format works. Organization of Space The exhibition will be laid out in an area of around 2,200 m2 ufa on four floors of the existing museum.the new itinerary will allow visitors to move through all the four levels of the exhibition according to a loop-type circulation plan leading back to the entrance hall, without their returning through areas already seen. Regular and double-height volumes will be alternated within this itinerary, allowing large-format works to be presented as well as various kinds of exhibition (small scale for small format works and large volumes for large-format works and contemporary exhibitions). A special gallery on the ground floor will be set aside for Persian painting (miniatures and Khadjare works), and a temporary exhibitions area will be constructed on the first floor.

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8 studiomilou architecture - Natural History Gallery in the city center Natural History Gallery Collection Masterplan of the National Museum of Georgia,Tibilisi, 2007 Natural History Gallery Collection presented Presentation of landscape evolution in Georgia and in the world more generally through the National Museum of Georgia s paleontology, prehistory and natural science collections. Museum Design Concept Presentation going back in time of the evolution of the landscape (fauna, flora and ecosystem) through the existing collections and through research underway in Georgia and in the world. Architectural Design This small-sized gallery will allow an intimate exhibition space to be constructed that is bathed in both natural and artificial light.these two forms of lighting will allow an imaginative design, while presenting the collection itself in natural light. Vistor route Organization of Space The itinerary will be laid out on three levels dedicated to the four main parts of the exhibition: Level 0 Introduction; Georgia in the world; Level 1 Contemporary Georgian flora and fauna; Ecology, extinct and endangered species; Level 2 Dmanisi, the origins of mankind; the origins of living species; document resource areas..