OMAC COMPETITION, BELFAST
The new Old Museum will be located in the Cathedral Quarter, adjacent to the St Anne's Square & therefore it had a big impact on its main façade as part of the square.
The design began by bringing the square right through the building hitting the rear wall along the back of Hector Street. This will open up the lower levels, seemingly as a continuation of the square. Then our curtain fell between the two spaces in the form of flat vertical louvers that could respond to the vertical classical columns of the St Anne's Square development. The louvers cut into the plan of the building to form an internal feature space that will carry horizontal circulation along the inside of the façade, also at roof level several of the louvers span right back to the rear wall.
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