Crypt Museum

Much of Viollet’s theoretical work experimented on blending modern metal working and construction techniques with more traditional masonry structural systems. I wanted my own design to reference this work, creating steel framed vaults that employed a similar structural system to that of the building above ground, only also employing heavy concrete to provide a different atmosphere.

Versions of this section drawn early on in realisation inaccurately showed the crypts being much further below the surface and more dramatic, in reality they are relatively shallow, this was amended for the final drawings.

The crypt museum was designed to be dark and atmospheric, in stark contrast to the design of the building a above. Roof lights have been placed strategically to illuminate points of archaeological interest, aided by pendant lights.

Kolumba Museum