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Dorell Ghotemh Tane Architects

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Joining the European Union in 2004 and gaining its independence from Russia in 1991, Estonia reaffirms further its National Identity after several years of occupation through launching an International Competition for the design and execution of the Estonian National Museum.


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© Dorell Ghotemh Tane Architects


© Dorell Ghotemh Tane Architects

This competition for an ethnographic building of 28 000 mq housing a collection of 140 000 objects was won in January 2006 by Dorell Ghotmeh Tane / Architects. The Project Jury consisted of international experts such as LORD Culture, Winy Maas/ MVRDV along with local experts and architects.
The Proposal of Dorell Ghotmeh Tane for this Museum was somehow unexpected for the competition Jury, considering Estonia’s recent history and struggle with the Soviet Occupation. Having as the competition site the northern degenerated area of the city of Tartu, the winning Architects chose to investigate the reasons why this site was for a long time ‘alienated’ from the city.


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© Dorell Ghotemh Tane Architects


© Dorell Ghotemh Tane Architects

Turning out to be a former Soviet military base, the site allocated for this national museum incited the Architects to connect the Museum with the element that is today the most physically present ‘ruin’ of what is for Estonian as ‘painful’ days: a military Airfield.
They believed that the Museum should play an essential role in the regeneration of the whole area and to do so, it has to start by dealing with this heavily charged and spatially unique airfield. Instead of ignoring it, the Museum physically connects to it and appropriates it into its own space in order to change its meaning this empty field is no longer a ‘military’ airfield but an extension of the National Museum’s space.
With a sensitive implementation on this site, the National Museum’s roof meets the airfield’s width and expands beyond its own ‘architectural’ boundary towards an ‘infinite space’.


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