THE GUGGENHEIM

MUSEUM BILBAO.
BILBAO, SPAIN.
AR.FRANK O. GEHRY.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is
a museum of modern and contemporary 1.

art, designed by Canadian-American

architect Frank Gehry, and located
in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The
Museum was inaugurated in 1997. Set on
the edge of the Nervión River in Bilbao, 2. 3. 4. 6.

Spain, the Guggenheim Museum is a

fusion of complex, swirling forms.

The object was to design a building with a

strong identity. The museum had to make
5.
the citizens take their city back, which was 7.
once a port city that had seen better days.
ZERO ESPAZIOA
Its factories and shipyards were closing one 8.
after the other. The museum had to be a PARMANENT COLLECTION
1. View of the museum from the river at
monument, which would make the “THE MATTER OF TIME”
night.
inhabitants get back their civic pride. EXHIBITION
1. 2. The museum is in centre of a geo-
cultural triangle, between The city
The building is a monumental sculpture TEMPO
museum, The university and the opera
with a chaotic and abstract look to it. RARY
EXHIBI house (from L-R).
“Fishes and their movements have always 2. 3,4,5. The different volumes when
been a part my architectural vocabulary.” separated form varied shaped, (3)There is
This statement by Gehry , is justified right a metal flower with silver petals,(4) A
away in the building, cruise liner and (5) A fish Tail.
3. 6.Early Sketches by Gehry.
9.
Gehry, made a beautiful object as well as a 4. 7..View of Salve Bridge and the Museum.
5. 8.Model showing the placement of -The
correctly functioning museum. One side he
Café and Auditorium (beige), the galleries
placed a shop, a cafeteria and an
auditorium and on the other side twenty
 INTERIORS EXTERIORS CIRCULATION
THE ATRIUM-As you enter, you THE SALVE BRIDGE-
THE TRAMWAY CROSSING-
The buildingSPACES
has 4 ways to be accessed:
see an atrium which is truly the The bridge is In the route through the city, 1-the main entrance is from the plaza 2-
heart of the museum around whichintegrated into the building the tramway passes The stairs that connect the plaza to the
the various exhibitions are by the means of a tower underneath the museum. lower floor. 3- Access from the estuary.
organized. It is crowned by a metallocated at the end of The office building is located 4- Access from the foot bridge.
Gallery 101 running above it in blue .
 Horizontal circulation in the
Building
EXHIBITION
GALLERIES Vertical Circulation by
The museum has Elevators and stairs.
twenty exhibition
Three floors are also
galleries, some of
connected by
them with regular
staircases( down left)
proportions and
others with curved The floors are connected
shapes. GALLERY with panoramic glass and
101 - Is a large titanium elevators.
gallery has a series
of arches which is
entirely column free THE ENTRANCE
AUDITORIUM- PLAZA The plaza
Easily accessible connects the museum to
from the hall, host the city and organizes
conference and TERRACE the transit of pedestrians TITANIUM SURFACES
other event. (right) Covered by a Different materials for different shapes have
grand canopy been used. The cladding of the classic
24m high used galleries is in stone square or rectangular.
as en exhibition The building’s curved volumes are covered
space and with thin titanium panels. Titanium gives the
terrace.( Left). building its identity, a skin comprising of
Secondary staircase connecting
MAIN 24,000 sq.m of metal plates. The repetition
the plaza to the access from the
ENTRANCE : of sheets folded emphasizes the movement
Building is estuary (down)
ZERO ESPAZIOA A new
visitor orientation space accessed by
near reception desk. (up) amphitheatre
BISTRO GUGGENHEIM shaped stairs.
BILBAO- it’s a café bar (right)
accesed from museum FOOTBRIDGE-
plaza.(Left side) A curved,