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New Museum of Rigas Feraios
The Project
A 1,550-square-metre museum, research and cultural centre in Rigas Velestinlis' birthplace, conceived as a contemporary space of memory, knowledge and public life.
The programme brings together 400 square metres of museum, exhibition and education spaces with a 200-square-metre multipurpose hall for approximately 250 people, a research centre, library, café and cultural spaces. The clearly defined functions are connected by a continuous visitor route that moves from the entrance and shop through exhibition, archive and research, then towards the roof garden, landscape and amphitheatre.
The building steps across the natural slope as a family of terraced volumes. Raw and discreetly refined mineral materials carry traces of time and place, while map-derived perforated screens filter daylight, frame views and give the route a changing rhythm of shadow, water and silence.
The Charta as a Design System
A map transformed into architecture.
From Trace to Space
Rigas' Charta is approached not only as a geographic work, but as an instrument for circulating ideas. Cartographic traces are extracted, organised into axes, directions and lines of movement, then translated into screens, surfaces and spatial flows.
The map is never reproduced literally. It is re-authored through material, inscription and experience: visitors read it in the floor, encounter it in filtered light and follow it through the circular sequence of the building.
Project Gallery
Space, material and light in detail.
Design Intent
The Charta of Rigas is rewritten as structure, movement, filtered light and lived experience.