Our proposal for the new wing of the Tel Aviv Art Museum is based on a series of ramps connecting the existing floor level with the different site elevations and the new wings galleries. A simple diagram of ramps and galleries was twisted and stacked to fit the difficult site conditions, creating the complex yet simple to understand form weaving together old and new, the site and the building, the art and everyday life.

The visitor can choose from two circulations systems: the ramps which lead them through the entire collection, telling the story designed by the museum curators, or an alternative concrete-core vertical system which allows direct access to each gallery. These cores are reminiscent of the circulation system in the existing building, harmonizing the movement in the old building with the fluid sequence of ramps and galleries in the new wing.

Two elongated atria emerge from the shifting and overlapping of the gallery strands. They cross the volume of the museum and sculpt the negative space

2003

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