Simon Demeuse, Partner at Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, takes us inside the design of the upcoming Vancouver Art Gallery.
After more than a decade of discussion, and timelines with dates that are now far in the past, construction has finally begun on the new Vancouver Art Gallery, with City officials and project collaborators celebrating the milestone at a ground-breaking ceremony on September 15.
In an interview with STOREYS, Simon Demeuse, Partner at Herzog & de Meuron, dives in to the design of the new gallery, the various changes that have been made to the design, and how the project team is going to use and feature mass timber., where did the design of the new Vancouver Art Gallery begin? Were there some core tenets the team wanted to meet with the design?
In order to allow this crossing, the site is kept as porous as possible. The main gallery building is lifted up, becoming a vertical museum. To go vertical with a public building is interesting, especially in the context of Vancouver, as it gives equal weight to a public building as is given to the surrounding tall private developments. More importantly, it allows the public to experience Vancouver from above with sweeping views of the city and natural scenery beyond.
Vancouver is a city where people really enjoy the outdoors. It is a city with a mostly mild climate, but it rains quite a bit. To offer an inside-outside experience in the vertical, we stacked volumes of different sizes on top of each other to create outdoor terraces adjacent to art spaces, education spaces and event spaces. The larger volumes above provide shelter for spaces below, while the smaller volumes on the lower portion of the tower allow sunlight to reach the courtyard.
We met frequently and learned about coast Salish cultures, art practices, historical research and traditions. Together we became particularly interested in the potential of translating the texture of traditional woven woolen blankets into a building skin. The blankets, made from untreated natural fiber, look uniform and singular in texture at first sight.
The building volume's stacking form is arranged as such to provide a lot of covered exterior spaces which at the same time shade the building's façade and thereby reduce the heat loads. This inside-outside approach with generous overhangs and awnings, both around the courtyard as well as in the vertical building, immediately makes the project sensitive and responsive to its exterior conditions.References are always a key part of our design process.
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