Aviation and Space Exploration History Museum (St. Petersburg, Maxim Subbotin project)

Project
Aviation and Space Exploration History Museum

Nomination
Best Museum Architectural Design

About the project
The spatial and volumetric concept refers to works by Avant-Garde architects of the early 20^thcentury. They worked in times when people believed into universal progress.

The building resembling and Avant-Garde sculpture, should remind people that there are immense spaces waiting to be reclaimed.

Metal tubes, rotating around the oval central hall, comprise exhibition venues. Each of them refers to one of the atmospheric layers, and the exposition facilitates the visitor go up in spirals and watch equipment applied at different heights. The floating composition of tubes and the central hall are pierced with constructivist-like trusses and structures with monorails and elevators for quick communication and observation of the outside exposition.

Location
Resort District of St. Petersburg, undeveloped site between Lisiy Nos and Gorskaya Villages

Submitter
Maxim Subbotin, 1^styear master, Repin Academic Institute of Fine Arts.