MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION

EISENMAN ARCHITECTS

“The new Hungarian Museum of Transport is an iconic form that derives from two central design ideas. The first idea is to embrace Budapest’s active public transportation system by directly linking the new suburban rail station with the existing surface transport system through the new museum. This means siting the new museum between the suburban rail station and the existing archive building. The second is to create a path through the new building that connects commuters to the city’s tram line. This creates two pedestrian routes: one that allows commuters to pass through the building without entering the exhibits, and a second route for visitors to the museum. These circulation systems are formally realized with an iconic loop building. The loop operates at many levels. It meets the suburban station at nine meters above grade, passes over the nostalgia train tracks – incorporating the operating train as an exhibit – and then engages workshop building, which becomes both the museum’s formal entrance and an active public space at street level.
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