Comments of the architects (extract)
The structure and colour design of the ceramic facade were
as a unique specimen for the construction project. The house
of Bavarian history is covered with an outer skin that is
the sculptural appearance of the building's body.
emphasizes. Her finely rhythmic,
vertical texture consistently covers the facade openings
to maintain that impression. Exceptions
form the openings towards the city and the Danube
as well as the large, identity-enhancing
window to the cathedral, which offers a targeted view from the outside.
into the interior of the museum. The facade reacts
with different degrees of closure
on the requirements of use of the museum.
Through the alternating use of ceramic tiles
and staffs, which are the rhythm of the façade design
is determined, any form of uniformity
avoided. The individual, thus created
genetics of the facade is in direct context to the
Structure, colourfulness, materiality and rhythmics of the
Regensburg Cathedral. Material and colour of the ceramics
adapt characteristics of the "Castra Regina",
of the Roman legion camp on the upper Danube,
the nucleus of the city of Regensburg.
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