The stacked timber museum of Kengo Kuma in Eskişehir, Turkey, will open in June this year.
The 4,500-square-meter building will feature an internationally significant collection of modern and contemporary art. Its design was inspired from Odunpazari’s traditional Ottoman wooden cantilevered houses that are synonymous with the district, and pays homage to the town’s history as a thriving wood market. The project consists of 3 levels with variety of exhibition spaces. On the ground floor there’re large spaces echoing the rhythm and scale of the urban context. On the upper floors are the smaller rooms with smaller-scale works. Natural light penetrates through a skylit atrium.
Kuma and his team wanted to create a design, that connects people and art; a building that carries the history and memory of the town.
https://www.archdaily.com/913476/kengo-kumas-stacked-timber-museum-in-turkey-opens-in-june