The ground floor, designed by SPeeCH, is conceived as a public space, encompassing the entrance, a naturally lit atrium, changing rooms, restrooms, a gift and book shop, an interactive area, and a conference room.
The atrium, also clad in copper, incorporates graffiti by four artists, while the exhibition halls, designed to adapt to different configurations, are distributed from the second to the fifth floor. Each hall can be divided into two or four smaller spaces using a system of four doors.
The building is configured as a cubic volume clad in an interlocking trapezoidal grid structure with copper finishes. This envelope defines the museum's exterior expression and lends continuity to the overall composition.
ZILART Museum by SPeeCH. Photograph by Andrey Belimov-Guschin.
Project description by SPeeCH
ZILART Museum is built on the territory of the former ZIL factory, which produced cars. Today, this part of the city has been turned into a multifunctional residential area, for which the museum should become the new cultural center.
It is designed to hold exhibitions of contemporary art and display art objects of various genres (painting, graphics, sculpture, installations, etc.).
The building is a cubic volume wrapped in a structure in the form of a looped trapezoidal grid pattern, finished with copper. The ground floor of the building is interpreted as a public space – there is an entrance area, a multi-light atrium, also decorated with copper and graffiti by four artists, as well as a wardrobe, bathrooms, a souvenir and book store, an interactive area and a conference room.
From the 2nd to the 5th floors, there are exhibition halls. Each exhibition hall is designed with the possibility of transformation: it can be divided into 2 or 4 smaller halls; for this purpose, 4 doors are provided in each exhibition hall.
