LOCATION PROJECT BRIEF
DANISH NATIONAL MARITIME ARCHITECTS : Bjarke Ingels Group Leaving the 60-year-old dock walls untouched,
CASE STUDY 1
MUSEUM
Location-Helsingor,Denmark
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
ISTANBUL NATIONAL MARITIME
MUSEUM
CASE STUDY 2
Location-Istanbul,Turkey
THE WATERFRONT PAVILLION
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME
CASE STUDY 3
MUSEUM
Location-Sydney,Australia
DESIGN OBJECTIVE SITE CONTEXT
The museum is placed in the old dry
AREA : 17500m² the galleries are placed below ground and
YEAR : 2013 arranged in a continuous loop around the dry
dock walls – making the dock the centerpiece
of the exhibition – an open, outdoor area where
visitors experience the scale of ship building.
ARCHITECTS : Teget The task was to propose a new exhibition scheme for
AREA : 15000m² the same site, preserving one –from 1940’s-of the
YEAR : 2010 existing buildings, as designated by the Monuments
Council. The lot in Beşiktaş, by the Bosporus aligned
with Ottoman Palaces, offered a very limited space
with a set of difficulties to design and build; on the
other hand, offering a symbolic strength to such a
location surrounded by intense metropolitan life and
monuments.
ARCHITECTS : FMJT Studio The design seeks to bring the narratives
AREA : 500m² of war to life and significantly enliven the
YEAR : 2015 visitor’s relationship with the vessels,
waterfront and broader museum precinct.
The articulated facade of the pavilion
compliments the scale, form, color of the
vessels and the broader marine
environment.
RESPONSE TO SURROUNDING
Situated in a old dry dock,this national maritime
dry dock within the 500m UNESCO
preservation line from the Kronbrog
castle.
The project site had 3 façades -the remaining one
facing the neighboring ex-tobacco warehouse was
virtually invisible and mainly reserved for services-.
The Bosporus side was reserved for the boat gallery.
On the opposite direction, at the Dolmabahçe
Boulevard where it is linked to the city and the traffic
access, we placed the entry. Finally, at the Beşiktaş
Square side, we revealed the courtyard, embracing
the Barbarous statue, around which the program of
the museum revolved.
Anchored to the South Wharf of Sydney’s
Darling Harbor, The Australian National
Maritime Museum's Waterfront Pavilion
was built to mark the centenary of World
War I and commemorate 100 years of
service by the Royal Australian Navy
UNIQUE FEATURES
For a century the site was a shipyard bustling with
museum is a pragmatic answer to the design
challenge.The museum is situated underground around the
dry dock rather than
inside it.
The whole composition rises from a shallow pool, which
connects the gallery to the sea. The facade line of the new
structure is recessed from the existing building at the
Dolmabahçe Boulevard to form an open space in front of the
entry that promises a meeting and gathering place for people
in an otherwise fairly congested street scape with narrow
sidewalks.
The articulated facade of the pavilion compliments
the scale, form, color of the vessels and the broader
marine environment. The Waterfront Pavilion offers
a dynamic, immersive experience and is an elegant,
integrated addition to the harbor precinct.
SPACES
All floors-connecting exhibition spaces with the
vessels and machinery, and the dry dock that now
forms the centerpiece of the museum’s underground
building is a legacy of this yard.
The establishment of a comprehensive maritime museum
in Turkey, which is surrounded by three seas, is of great
importance in terms of maritime history. In addition, it is
possible to establish more than one maritime museum in
different provinces with the thousands of pieces in the
collectors’ inventory
The pavilion is further shaped by the primary forms of
the adjacent vessels themselves, the conning tower of
the submarine, and the bridge of the destroyer
creating central formal distortions. These distortions
are then transformed into large glazed portals that
frame lateral views onto the vessels.
auditorium,classroom,offices,café and the dock floor
within the museum-slope gently creating exiting and
sculptural spaces.
First of all, it is a single space, where the long and
slender sultan boats stand side by side facing the sea,
providing the opportunity to perceive the collection in
an impressive ensemble at a glance. Secondly, it is a
compartmented space, subdivided into narrow bands
each reserved for a boat.
The project began with the idea of a suspended
‘tube’ that could ‘hover’ over the wharf, creating
space at the wharf level to allow visitors to
experience the edge where the vessels meet the water.
As it is an extension to the existing museum it only
has exhibition spaces.