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01. NEW ACROPOLIS MUSEUM,

ATHENS, GREECE, 2009.

CONCEPT

The Acropolis Museum in Athens is a renowned museum that houses a vast collection of artifacts
from the Acropolis of Athens. It provides valuable insights into ancient Greek history and culture.
Devoted to the Parthenon and its surrounding temples, it is cleverly perched above Athens like a
luminous box. The large glass panes beautifully draw in the ancient and modern parts of the city,
making it a truly evocative experience. Designed by New York’s, Bernard Tschumi, with local Greek
architect Michael Photiadis, it is the perfect sanctuary for the ancient artefacts that were found in
and around the Acropolis and successfully deconstructs how the Parthenon sculptures once looked
to the citizens of ancient Athens.

Exterior Construction Shot

Acropolis Meseum, ArchDaily Interior Construction Shot

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ARCHITECTURE DRAWINGS
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Real life Site Plan Site Plan

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ARCHITECTURE DRAWINGS
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First Floor Plan Transversal Section

We first articulated the building into a base, middle,

and top, which were designed around the specif-
ic needs of each part of the program. The base
of the museum floats on pilotis over the existing
archeological excavations, protecting the site with
a network of columns placed in careful negotiation
with experts. This level contains the entrance lobby
as well as temporary exhibition spaces, an auditori-
um, and all support facilities. A glass ramp over-
looking the archeological excavations leads to the
galleries in the middle, in the form of a spectacular
double-height room supported by tall columns. The
top, which is made up of the rectangular Parthenon
Gallery arranged around an indoor court, rotates
gently to orient the marbles of the Frieze exactly as
they were at the Parthenon centuries ago. Its trans-
parent enclosure provides ideal light for sculpture
in direct view to and from the Acropolis, using the
most contemporary glass technology to protect the
gallery against excessive heat and light.

Third Floor Plan Museum Floors Exploded

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INTERIOR DESIGN ANALYSIS

Exploded Axonometric X-ray of Museum

Exploded Axonometric Zoning and Circulation

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 Circulation inside Museum Sketch Of Circulation

The circulation route narrates a rich spatial experience from the city street into the historical
world of the different periods of archeological inquiry.The collection is installed in chronological
sequence, from pre-history through the late Roman period, but reaches its high point (literally and
programmatically) with the Parthenon Frieze. The visitor’s route is therefore a clear, three-dimen-
sional loop. It goes up from the lobby via escalator to the double-height galleries for the Archaic
period; upward again by escalator to the Parthenon Gallery; then back down to the Roman Em-
pire galleries and out toward the Acropolis itself.

Sketch Of Circulation

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The rich collections provide visitors with
a comprehensive picture of the human
presence on the Acropolis, from pre-historic
times through late antiquity. Integral to this
program is the display of an archeological
excavation on the site: ruins from the 4th
through 7th centuries A.D., left intact and
protected beneath the building and made
visible through the first floor.
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Circulation inside Museum
Designed with spare horizontal lines and
utmost simplicity, the Museum is delib-
erately non-monumental, focusing the
visitor’s attention on extraordinary works of
art. With the greatest possible clarity, the
design translates programmatic require-
ments into architecture.
NAME OF SECTION
Materials used in First Floor
The collection consists primarily of works of sculpture, many of them architectural pieces that orig-
inally decorated the monuments of the Acropolis, so the building that exhibits them is a museum
of ambient natural light. The use of various types of glass allows light to flood into the top-floor
Parthenon Gallery, to filter through skylights into the archaic galleries, and to penetrate the core of
the building, gently touching the archeological excavation below the building.
Materials used in First Floor
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SPATIAL ORGANIZATION VISITOR EXPERIENCE

Exploded Axonometric Analysis of Museum

Visitors Experience

Spatial analysis and Circulation

Visitors Experience

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