National Park Centre / Valerio Olgiati

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• Architects

  Valerio Olgiati

• Location

  Zernez, Switzerland

• Category

  Exhibition Center

• Architect

   Valerio Olgiati

• Collaborators

   Aldo Duelli (project manager office Olgiati), Fabrizio Ballabio, Theo Barmettler, Pascal Flammer, Herwig Lins, Sara Wiedenbeck

• Structural Engineer

   Jon Andrea Könz, Ing.-Büro, Zernez + Dr.Schwarz Consulting, Zug

• Client

   Swiss National Parc, Zernez

• Construction Supervisor

   Rico Stupan, Architectura DC SA, Scuol + Claudio Bulfoni, Castellani & Bulfoni, Scuol

• Area

  0.0 m2

• Project Year

  2008

• Photographs

  Javier Miguel Verme

Text description provided by the architects. The exhibitions are held in the new visitors centre. The administration is in the old castle building; the hall, foyer and seminar space are in the stables.

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From outside the new building seems extremely regular, it has no emotional expression, so to speak. The inner spatial development is the product of antitheses: of concealing and revealing, heaviness and lightness, regularity and irregularity. The windows are slightly more horizontal in format, producing an “observing” view in all directions from each room. The exhibition spaces can be properly blacked out and all have the multi- functional technical facilities required for contemporary exhibitions.

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