Looking at the past as a way into the future.
This is the challenge strikingly posed by the architectural design for the extension to the Gösta Museum which has been tailored to support the ambitious and significant renewal programme for the existing museum complex, transforming it into an integrated and modern system.
The design team has consistently given priority to the idea of the museum being a “house for people” before it is a “house for pictures”: people and their perceptions have always been at the centre of the design concept.
The team has thus sought a sequence of spaces which alternate between those providing an excellent and undisturbed view of the art-works and those looking out onto the surrounding countryside, an essential and characterising ingredient of the museum itself.