Cable car museum_student project

Cable car museum
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M04 studio project – MUSEUM OF TRANSPORT

Typology: Museum, edutainment facility

Location: mountain Kopaonik, Serbia

Area: 9 000 m2

“Cable Propelled Transit is a transportation technology that moves people in motor-less, engine-less vehicles that are propelled by a steel cable.” (from Cable Car Confidential). It is advantageous for transit on mountains, steep slopes, bodies of water, or urban areas. In an aerial transit system, vehicles are suspended and propelled from above by cables.

In Serbia, cable cars are mostly used for transit in mountains, thus the facilities that represent and promote them are suitable for areas like these. Precisely, the area I chose is the popular skiing center and summer destination – mountain Kopaonik. The museum is located right across the center of the settlement on the uphill with the beautiful view on it.

The intervention on the sloped terrain is based on creating simple form by elevating certain terrain zones and continuing on the dynamic atmosphere that the sloped terrains always have. Relation to the particular location was made by following the course of isohipse lines and forming fluent wavy structure. The simple morphology of the structure was accentuated with the distinct meandering glass façade.

Main feature, in the functional sense, are diverse entertainment contents that give value to the places such as social gathering and public places. Given the context of today’s technological development where there is no actual need for visiting museums in order to gain knowledge and experience, and the trends of functional hybridization, places for communication and socialization have become even more important and thus are a large part of this project. Theme park inside the building as well as on the outside is the biggest attraction in the area, and introduces the subject of cable cars through the concept of games, inviting for the further exploration.

The exhibition space is designed with the similar goals, with the curved suspended ramps as the main interior tracks that erase horizontal floor plans and creates a singular clear space with sub-zones that the curves form.

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