Aviation and Space Exploration History Museum (St. Petersburg, Artem Gavrilov project)

Project
Aviation and Space Exploration History Museum

Nomination
Best Museum Architectural Design

About the project
The museum building has round composition. Exposition blocks rising from its center and a disc, as if sailing under zero gravity, intended to thrill the visitors’ imagination, make it more dynamic.

The museum comprises diverse venues – large light halls give place to little dark media-rooms, and curved walls contrast with right angles.
Stylistically, the building refers to Russian Avantgarde, in particular, the works by El Lissitzky, and actually transforms a 2D supremacist composition into a 3D spatial one.

Location
St. Petersburg, the Kurortny District, a site of 137 hectares

Submitter
Artem Gavrilov