Museum M

In the case of the design Stéphane Beel architects drew up for the Museum M in Leuven, a reading in terms of the programme is certainly legitimate. This is because of the ambiguity of the sort of museum that M is intended to be: both a museum of the local heritage and a museum of art. How is this institutional duality interpreted in the architecture?
Any architectural design is always very dependent on all sorts of preconditions, of which the programme is only one, but it is never fully defined by them. The architectural response can never be reduced to the problem set. The problem always offers the possibility not only of the pleasure of designing, but also the pleasure of being confronted with form, mass and matter in the reality of the activities and narratives programmed. In the case of museums too, and certainly Museum M.