Samenvatting

The Silestra Museum Forum is part of an intended strategy to reboot cultural and social life in the city by enhancing neglected historical sites and public spaces with new cultural and social functions. This new connective network makes clever use of the old city fabric, including the park bordering on the Danube River where the remains of roman architecture can still be seen. On this site the Museum Forum is inserted in the path structure, partly underground and partly as a slightly raised platform with a sunken court and at the side an outlook tower. One enters through an intermediate level with café, terrace, shop, and a mirror patio. Steps lead further down to the sunken court, which can be used for events, open air cinema or ice skating, and finally to a subterranean museum space. The design transforms a static museum concept into a dynamic programmatic space by giving architecture a cultural role.