NEW LIGHT BUILDING SYSTEMS. BAUHAUS MUSEUM DESSAU: 3,055 M2 OF GLASS

The Sert School and the Open Architecture Centre co-organise a series of parallel conferences as part of the ‘New construction systems: light construction systems’ course.

The program focuses on those made with transparent materials (glass, synthetic materials) and with opaque materials (metal frame, textiles). In this context, the conference ‘Bauhaus Museum Dessau: 3,055 m2 of glass’ will be held by the architect José Zabala, from González
Hinz Zabala Architects.

The Bauhaus Museum in Dessau is a museum dedicated to this school of architecture and design located in the city of Dessau, Germany. The conference revolves around the most significant aspect of the building: its austere and direct design, a subtle reincarnation of the Bauhaus spirit related to the famous Miesian oxymoron “less is more”. This design refers to some of the aspects of the original building of the school in Dessau: the curtain wall of the workshops, the two-storey bridge building and the feeling of lightness and flat surfaces that at the same time incorporates a manifesto of the contemporary culture that could be described as “low resolution at its best”.