Materials #2: Prague National Gallery Entrance Hall

Metal
Two parallel surfaces organize what used to be an empty space without weighing it down: one forms the floor, the other the roof.

The floor emerges as a surface layer of the earth, folding subtly over itself to adapt to minor differences in level and ease access to the neighbouring buildings.

The roof, the boundary that separates us from the sky, is a continuous sheet that does not quite touch the buildings around it, producing great skylights and generating an enigmatic interplay of reflections.

Space is the gaseous fluid that moves between these two limits.

The precision of steel and zinc, in the hands of local craftsmen, gives form to this narrative.

01 journal material prague mateo arquitectura
02 journal material prague mateo arquitectura
03 journal material prague mateo arquitectura
04 journal material prague mateo arquitectura
05 journal material prague mateo arquitectura
06 journal material prague mateo arquitectura
07 journal material prague mateo arquitectura
08 journal material prague mateo arquitectura
09 journal material prague mateo arquitectura
View all plans