Architecture Design Melbourne Museum by Denton Corker Marshall Australia
Denton Corker Marshall won an international competition to design a new campus for the Museum of Victoria. Now known as ‘Melbourne Museum’, it is the primary and largest site for Victoria’s most important cultural institution. Located on an extremely sensitive site, adjacent to the World Heritage Listed 1880s Royal Exhibition Building, the response demanded a building that would not overpower its older neighbour, but one that still had a presence in its own right. The brief called for “a campus of elements”, rather than a singular monumental object. All the elements are grouped around the north/south extension of the park and the Royal Exhibition Building. The Forest Gallery, a large lightweight enclosure housing trees, birds, insects and fish, waterfalls and other elements of a Victorian temperate forest, forms the centrepoint of this axis.
The distinctive blade roof at the rear of the museum is an architectural response to the dome on the Royal Exhibition Building a complementary iconic skyline element. The canopy that slopes down towards the centre , another eye-catching element, serves to draw visitors from both streets on either side of the site.
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