The home of architectural drawing in Berlin
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The Museum for Architectural Drawing of Berlin was built to house the collection of Sergey Tchoban, with the goal of popularize and defend the importance of drawing in architecture.
The museum includes works by Giacomo Quarenghi as well as by Aldo Rossi and Frank Gehry and also hosts temporary exhibitions as the one currently displayed called "American Perspectives: from Classic to Contemporary".
The museum includes works by Giacomo Quarenghi as well as by Aldo Rossi and Frank Gehry and also hosts temporary exhibitions as the one currently displayed called "American Perspectives: from Classic to Contemporary".
Exterior view. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Exterior view. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Exterior view. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Exterior view. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Exterior view. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Exterior view. Detail of facade. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Exterior view. Detail of facade. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©PatriciaParinejad.
Exterior view. Rooftop. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©npstv.
Exterior view. Detail of facade. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Exterior view. Entrance. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Exterior view. Entrance. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Interior view. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Interior view. Staircase. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Interior view. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Interior view. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Interior view. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Interior view. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Interior view. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Exterior view. Rooftop. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
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Elevations and section. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov.
Section. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov.
Exterior night view. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
Exterior view. Tchoban foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov. Photography ©RolandHalbe.
The building is set in Pfefferberg, the former site of a brewery of the nineteenth century, that, since the late twentieth century has been used for cultural and leisure activities. The museum designed by the bureau SPEECH, led by the architects Sergei Tchoban and Sergey Kuznetsov, is conceived as part of the Pfefferberg complex and not as an isolated building.
The five-storey building has a massive and forceful appearance but also its outer image is changeable and mobile due to the overlapped volumes rotated upon each other. As an engraving, the facade has been decorated with architectural drawings referring to the content of the museum.
The building was completed in 2013 and since then the studio has been awarded in numerous occasions, including the German Design Award and the nomination for the European Museum of the Year Award this year.
Description of the project by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov
This five-story building represents a stack of solid cuboid volumes with a glass penthouse on top. Solid jutties loom at different angles from each of the four floors below, spraying the building’s basic geometrics. By means of pictorial concrete moulds showing large scale architectural representations the lightly died exposed concrete alludes to the role and content of the building. On the ground floor and along the height of the staircase the massive concrete body is perforated by small cathedral-glass windows in special shapes that derive from the drawing fragments.
Access is located on the front and the rear of the building differentiating the access for the public and for management and service. On the building front two spacious openings on the ground and on the second floor have been formed as entrance niche and a glazed loggia. Interior functions have been clearly organized along with the vertical partition: reception and ticketing on the ground floor, exhibition cabinets on the first two upper floors, archives on the third and office and conference space on the fourth floor including two roof terraces offering splendid views onto the Pfefferberg premises in the East and the square of Teutoburger Platz in the West.
Although complying with the highest conservational conditions for artworks, the construction reveals an inviting appearance piquing the curiosity of passers-by and adding distinctively to the surroundings of protected industrial monuments, historical apartment houses, quiet streets, courtyards and the landscaped square in front.
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Architects
Sergei Tchoban, Sergey Kuznetsov, SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov, Moscow, Russia.
Project team
Philipp Bauer, Nadja Fedorova, Katja Fuks, Ulrike Graefenhain, Dirk Kollendt.
Collaborators
Construction Manager.- Nps tchoban voss GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany.
Client
Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing.
Area
Gross floor area.- 498 sqm.
Dates
Works.- 2009-2011. Completion.- May 2013.
Photography
Sergei Tchoban
Sergei Tchoban is an internationally active German architect. He is managing partner of TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten and head of the Berlin office. Tchoban studied architecture at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. He has lived in Germany since 1991 and has held German citizenship since 1995. After starting at NPS Nietz - Prasch - Sigl in Hamburg in 1992, Tchoban became managing partner of the architectural office now known as TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten in 1995. In 2009, the Tchoban Foundation was established, which is based in the Museum for Architectural Drawing built for this purpose in 2013.
Numerous residential and office buildings, hotels, cultural buildings and revitalisation projects have been created according to his designs and plans, including EDGE Suedkreuz Berlin, Germany's largest office ensemble in sustainable timber hybrid construction, the Berlin Apple store Rosenthaler Strasse, as well as the revitalisation of the Ernst-Reuter-Platz 6 office building and numerous buildings as part of the master planning for Berlin's Osthafen.
In 2020, Tchoban was president of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators ASAI. His architectural drawings have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries worldwide and are in the collections of international museums, archives as well as in private collections. In 2018, Sergei Tchoban was awarded the European Prize for Architecture by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design for his lifework.
Sergei Tchoban is member of the Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA (Association of German Architects) and the chambers of architects in Hamburg and Berlin.
Numerous residential and office buildings, hotels, cultural buildings and revitalisation projects have been created according to his designs and plans, including EDGE Suedkreuz Berlin, Germany's largest office ensemble in sustainable timber hybrid construction, the Berlin Apple store Rosenthaler Strasse, as well as the revitalisation of the Ernst-Reuter-Platz 6 office building and numerous buildings as part of the master planning for Berlin's Osthafen.
In 2020, Tchoban was president of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators ASAI. His architectural drawings have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries worldwide and are in the collections of international museums, archives as well as in private collections. In 2018, Sergei Tchoban was awarded the European Prize for Architecture by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design for his lifework.
Sergei Tchoban is member of the Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA (Association of German Architects) and the chambers of architects in Hamburg and Berlin.
Sergey Kuznetsov
Sergey Kuznetsov. (Russian: Серге́й Оле́гович Кузнецо́в), born 25 July 1977, Moscow. He study in Moscow Architectural Institute, Department of Residential and Public Buildings, Diploma in Architecture, 1995–2001. Moscow architect Sergey Kuznetsov was the partner and the Chief Executive Officer of the architecture workshop “S.P.Project” since 2003. It was one of first Moscow architecture bureau specializing in the creating of three-dimensional graphics along with designing of buildings and complexes of various degree of complexity. In 2006 the architecture workshop “S.P.Project” under the direction of Sergey Kuznetsov entered into the association “SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov”. During existing of the bureau by its designs were realized such projects as Office building on Leninsky prospect, Residential complex “Granatny, 6” or Residential complex “Grunewald”.
In 2010 Sergey Kuznetsov became the co-author of the project and design of exposition “Factory Russia” of the Russian pavilion in XII Architecture Biennale in Venice. In 2012 at the XIII Venice Architecture Biennale he was a co-curator and co-author of design of the exposition “i-city/i-land” of the Russian pavilion. In August 2012, Sergey Kuznetsov was appointed as the Chief Architect of Moscow, the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow. During Kuznetsov’s first year in office, over 20 competitions in urban planning projects were held, including several major international competitions that included the design of Zaryadye Park and the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA). Working closely with Moscow Mayor Sobyanin and the Moscow Government, on the initiative of Sergey Kuznetsov competitions have become regular practice in Moscow as an effective method of urban planning.
Kuznetsov is also the Chairman of the Architectural Council of Moscow – a standing collegial consultative body to the Moscow City Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning. The Council’s work is aimed at making the decisions on key urban projects widely open to the public.
