LAN Architecture

Sprengel Museum extension . Hannover

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The Sprengel Museum extension has enormous potential for change in that the museum must be experienced as a part of the place in which it lives.
The museum site is isolated between a road and an area of houses cutting it off from its urban context and separating it from the banks of the nearby lake.
Set on a plinth, the museum demarcates itself from its immediate surroundings as a sacred space. The building is articulated around a longitudinal street dividing it into isolated spaces