Award-winning Italian architect-headed firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop has accomplished leaving its first footprint in Turkey with the construction of the magnificent Istanbul Modern Museum. The use of aluminium in construction has somehow elevated the outer look of the museum, illuminating the surface with the sky's reflection.
The Istanbul Modern Museum is planned across an area of 10,000 square metres on Karaköy waterfront, a place of historical significance in Istanbul where the Golden Horn waterways and Bosphorus unites.
Renzo Piano is not only an astounding architect but is also a Senator of the Italian Republic. He has loads of important monuments to his name worldwide, like the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Shard in London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
His namesake firm performed with a similar kind of responsibility as its master, creating a ship-like structure with aluminium panels of the most impeccable variety so that it may act as a mirror reflecting the moods of the sky above. The aluminium panels enveloping the building not only protect it from adverse conditions like temperature fluctuations and humidity but also delivers a unique appearance to the entire modernistic structure.
The studio also mentioned their choice of aluminium was solely due to its reflective qualities so that the panels could catch the actual Bosphorus waterway's texture and resemble the ocean's hues.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop stated: "Echoing the history of a site that has been used as a harbour for millennia, the outline of the building evokes ships of different sizes travelling back and forth between Europe and Asia as well as a creature of the sea that has leapt from the Bosphorus on the shore."
"The facade is made by a sequence of 3D-formed aluminium panels that play with the changing sunlight, creating a shimmering, iridescent envelope evocative of fish scales," the workshop added.
The museum holds all the modern permanent collections from Istanbul on its second floor. The building's roof opens up to join a more extensive terrace that looks over the reflective pool as if to give it a continuous effect.
"The new building's transparent and accessible design reflects the ethos of the museum: a multifaceted experience offering visitors audience-oriented exhibitions and programs inspired by the artistic diversity of the present day," the studio concluded.
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