Monday, June 6, 2016

Exhibit - @ The Musée des Confluences

 Copyright © Françoise Herrmann

For anyone wondering about the newly inaugurated Musée des Confluences in Lyon (France), you will find below a small video of the museum coming alive with an architectural sketch.

Musée des Confluences : un croquis prend vie from Musée des Confluences on Vimeo.

The Musée des Confluences opened on Dec. 20, 2014. It is  a science and anthropology museum including Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Technology collections. The museum was built by the Austrian cooperative architectural firm Coop Himmelb(l)au on the tip of a peninsula (the Lyon historical Presqu'île), at the confluence of the rivers Saône and Rhône. 

If the Musée des Confluences looks a bit like a spaceship with some unusual curves, it is because it was built in a deconstructivist architectural tradition that also includes such other great architects as for example Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid. 👠

References
Coop Himmelb(l)au
http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/
Coop Himmelb(l)au - Musée des Confluences Sketch (Youtube)
https://youtu.be/KkGqImZ0I3U 
Musée des Confluences
http://www.museedesconfluences.fr/
Musée des Conflunces - L'architecture
http://www.museedesconfluences.fr/fr/larchitecture
Musée des Confluence - Le projet
http://www.museedesconfluences.fr/fr/le-projet
Musée des Confluences - Les collections
http://www.museedesconfluences.fr/fr/les-collections
A history of architecture - Deconstructivism
Oh, patents! Gehry architectural technologies
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