Ars Electronica Future Park - The Prizewinning Project

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Ars Electronica Future Park - The Prizewinning Project

The Museum of the Future is already bursting at the seams. Therefore, this facility must be provided with sufficient exhibition space and expanded into the Ars Electronica Future Park by 2009, the year in which Linz will serve as European Capital of Culture. The project submitted by Treusch architecture does the best job of fulfilling these requirements. Not least of all, it creates a striking landmark amidst the Linz cityscape through the way it blends the new structure with the existing one. As for the building's users, this project's outstanding solution to providing an efficient physical setting for the organization's day-to-day affairs as well as an attractive venue for exhibitions and public gatherings garnered high praise.

The dominant theme of the planning concept is the addition of a piece of architectural sculpture to the existing structure. What makes it unique is the fact that it can be directly experienced as a walk-through work of art. The crystalline form of the glass-and-steel construction fits in well with its surroundings to create an attractive ensemble. The urban planning concept is based on the principle of dialog with its setting.

Here, the project in detail:



Multi-story Main Building and Infrastructure Elements - A glass cube featuring a double-shelled facade will be built adjoining the existing AEC facility. Some of the glass surfaces will be transparent; others will have a matte finish. Transitional zones can be backlit. Generally speaking, the cube can be optimally utilized as a projection surface-as a mediatizable casing, so to speak-which enables the structure to be transformed into a transparent light sculpture after dark. It will also be possible to apply LED and LCD screens to the exterior.



Exhibition Areas - These are located on the level below the plaza (Maindeck). They can be flexibly subdivided.



Future Lab with Upperdeck - The media art laboratory's headquarters will feature studios, workshops, offices and common spaces. The Upperdeck arrayed above them will provide additional flexible space for exhibitions, events, etc. Multi-tier forum-type seating will be provided for visitors. The centerpiece of the new facility will be a spacious central plaza suitable for public events. This area blends in perfectly with its surroundings-the landscape on the banks of the Danube, the adjacent historical buildings and the existing Ars Electronica Center.

Construction is set to commence in late 2006; scheduled completion is in the 3rd quarter of 2008.



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