The Great Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt
The main architectural choice we made is to put underground the artworks that in great majority from underground did come, minimizing in this way the presence of built objects in an area in which too many new buildings affect the original pyramids landscape.
In this way the museum itself doesnt define a specific visible building but appears with various emerging elements that build up the external image of the institution.
These elements, as frequently happens in Egyptian ancient architecture, deal with specific points of a process like approaching, entering, moving through, staying and in the same time stand like abstract marks in the landscape.
Like many ancient underground or inner spaces built not to be seen from the outside or definitely built not to be seen at all (after the end of the construction and the burial of the client), the quality of the design continues to affect the outer world in a very conceptual and contemporary way, just due to its even unseen existence.
