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Werner Huthmacher1
Werner Huthmacher2
Werner Huthmacher3
Werner Huthmacher4
Werner Huthmacher5

Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany

Object Type
Museums

Client
Stadt Leipzig

Architects
Hufnagel Pütz Rafaelian, Berlin

Completion
2004

Expertises
Thermal Insulation & Energy Performance Calculation
Measurements Building Physics
Building Acoustics
Sound Isolation
Room Acoustics

The Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig ranks among the most important cultural institutions in East Germany. In 2004, the art museum‘s cuboid new building was inaugurated in the center of Leipzig. Paintings, graphics and sculptures from the Late Middle Ages up to the present are on display in air-conditioned, spacious exhibition rooms. Indoor patios with daylight are inviting places for visitors to rest.

Museum exhibition rooms need to ensure special climatic conditions in order to protect the works of art. The high transparency between indoors and outdoors required the building envelope to be optimized energetically. By means of extensive building physics analyses, the hygrothermal properties of the double-glazed facade were evaluated and the temperature changes in the courtyards were simulated. The aim was to minimize the outdoor climate‘s influence on the exhibition space despite its open-plan layout and large glazed surfaces. For achieving the desi-red constant indoor climate in the underground storerooms including a constant relative humidity, the effect created by the hygric properties of watertight concrete structures exposed to water pressure was examined.

For the purpose of optimizing the planned sound-reflecting interior surfaces in terms of acoustics, a computer-based auralisation was performed in order to make “audible“ the reverberation times to be expected.

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