This document provides an overview of an upcoming conference on museum architecture. The conference will take place over 3 days and visit 6 museum sites that are undergoing construction or renovation. It will examine the challenges of museum architecture, including the growth of faster "design and build" approaches versus slower approaches that emphasize local traditions and community involvement. Speakers will discuss how different architectural approaches can impact a museum's identity and ability to represent intangible cultural heritage. The goal is to consider how museum design can best achieve sustainable development.

1. MUSEUM
ARCHITECTURE MORE THAN
BUILDING BLOCKS
ICAMT CONFERENCE
14 I 15 I 16 September 2017
OLGA VAN OOST & MONIQUE VERELST

2. Flemish
Institution for
Cultural Heritage

3. WELCOME TO …

4. FLANDERS

5. Clichés

6. Erfgoedkaart

7. MUSEUMS
UNDER
CONSTRUCTION

8. WHY DO WE
BUILD?

9. WHAT DOES
ARCHITECTURE
MEAN TO
MUSEUMS?

10. WHY DO WE
ORGANIZE THIS
CONFERENCE?

11. THE NEXT 3 DAYS
•Museum selection
•The museums and construction sites we
will visit
•Challenges

12. A VARIETY OF CASES
•Open for public after recent renovation
•Different construction phases
•Buildings of different sizes
•Museums with various collections
•Museums with different missions
•A variety of public tenders

13. THE SITES THAT
WE WILL VISIT

14. DAY 1
• ROYAL MUSEUM FOR
CENTRAL AFRICA
(KMMA), Tervuren

15. DAY 2
• MUSEUM M, Leuven
• MUSEUM HOF VAN
BUSLEYDEN, Mechelen
• KAZERNE DOSSIN,
Mechelen

16. DAY 3
• MUSEUM FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART
(M HKA), Antwerp
• DIVA, Home of
Diamonds, Antwerp

17. CHALLENGES
• FASTER, BIGGER,
CHEAPER?
THE GROWTH OF
THE DESIGN&BUILD
INDUSTRIE
• SLOWER, BETTER,
RICHER?
THE GROWTH OF
CONTEMPORARY
VERNACULAR
ARCHITECTURE

18. WHAT?
• FASTER, BIGGER,
CHEAPER?
THE GROWTH OF
THE DESIGN&BUILD
INDUSTRIES
• Traditional approach
• Appointment of a designer
• Appointment of a contractor
• Design & Build / D&B and total fit
• One single point of
responsability
• in an attempt to reduce risks
and overall costs

19. • Critics:
• Limits the clients or users
involvement in the design
• Contractors make design
decisions outside their area of
expertise
• An architect/sceno is a better
advocate for the client
• Everything has to be
determined from beginning
• Proponents:
• Saves risks time and money for
the owner
PRO/CONTRA?
• FASTER, BIGGER,
CHEAPER?
THE GROWTH OF
THE DESIGN&BUILD
INDUSTRIE

20. • How & why determine everything at
the beginning?
• Can designers still create in all
freedom?
• Can designers still judge
independently and critically when a
project is completed?
• Is there space and time for
customization?
• For handicraft?
• To involve the heritage community?
IMPORTANCE?
• FASTER, BIGGER,
CHEAPER?
THE GROWTH OF
THE DESIGN&BUILD
INDUSTRIE

21. WHAT?
• SLOWER, BETTER,
RICHER?
THE GROWTH OF
CONTEMPORARY
VERNACULAR
ARCHITECTURE
Examples:
Zoma, Contemporary Art
Centre (ZCAC), Ethiopia
The Ningbo Museum, China

22. • SLOWER, BETTER, RICHER?
THE GROWTH OF
CONTEMPORARY
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE.
In both Examples:
• Ancient traditions
• Handicrafts
• Local community’s
• Oral history
&
• Contemporary knowledge &
architecture
• Ecology

24. • SLOWER, BETTER, RICHER?
THE GROWTH OF
CONTEMPORARY
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE.
• If we focus more on social aspects of
sustainability, how would that change the
building and scenography and the way
heritage communities get involved?
• Can we create places with a richer local
cultural significance?
• Does it give a clearer identity, more
authenticty?
• A stronger link with sites and local
traditions?
• Could this be a way to incorporate
intangible heritage better?

25. • SLOWER, BETTER, RICHER?
THE GROWTH OF
CONTEMPORARY
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE.
• FASTER, BIGGER, CHEAPER?
THE GROWTH OF DESIGN &
BUILD INDUSTRY

26. “Groot Onderhoud” 01.12.2017
Theme: ‘Sustainable development’
• Plenary lectures
• Parallel sessions
• Session “THE CLIMATE NETWORK”
• A network with different parties (users, architects, preventive
conservators and technicians)
• Session “SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND EXHIBITIONS”
• Presentation and debate with mr. Michiel Schwarz
Vision on social design (Sustainism Lab, Amsterdam)
• and other sessions…

27. MONIQUE VERELST
Advisor cultural infrastructure and museography
Monique.Verelst@faro.be
T 02 213 10 89
OLGA VAN OOST
Coordinator museums
Olga.VanOost@faro.be
T 02 213 10 79