This is what the renovated Egyptian Museum will look like. OMA studio wins international competition

Dutch firm OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture has won the international design competition"Egyptian Museum 2024," in which Kengo Kuma & Associates of Paris, Pininfarina Architetture and Carlo Ratti Associati, and Snøhetta also participated, for the expansion and reorganization of the spaces of the Egyptian Museum in Turin. In fact, the Rotterdam-based firm will redesign the roof of the inner courtyard of the Palazzo del Collegio dei Nobili with the aim of expanding exhibition and reception spaces.

The project creates a new covered courtyard, defined as the Egyptian Square, and a series of connected urban rooms open to all, re-integrating the museum with Turin’s network of public spaces.

The project will reorganize the museum’s public areas into six rooms. The largest and at the center of the museum will be the Egyptian Square, conceived as a shared public space between the Egyptian Museum and the city. A central Plug will connect the six urban rooms together, and also to both museum entrances on Accademia Street and Duse Street. The Egyptian Piazza will be a two-level multifunctional courtyard that will showcase the museum’s original architecture and the traces of the interventions that have taken place over time. On level 0, the courtyard’s multiple historic openings, which had been closed after the museum’s renovation in 2010, will be restored, reconnecting this public space to the city. On level -1, where the Egyptian Garden and event and learning space are located, the original facade of the College of Nobles is uncovered.

A transparent canopy will be installed above Egyptian Square to create a tempered environment. Its aluminum-clad steel structural grid is a device for rainwater collection, air ventilation and lighting provision.

The construction of the work relies on funding of about 12.5 million for the work. The goal is to realize the intervention by October 2024.

Photo by Alessandro Rossi

This is what the renovated Egyptian Museum will look like. OMA studio wins international competition

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