Museum Texture

In Kortrijk, noA architects’ converts a fairly banal warehouse from 1912 into the contemporary Texture Museum. Where appropriate, noA Architects embroidered on worthwhile existing elements, very much encouraged to do so by the tight construction budget. Where possible, the designers made a more emphatic architectural gesture, such as the golden crown that lends the simple shed a more monumental urban face. The gold is an allusion to the ‘golden river’, namely the Lys when full of yellow flax. In one fell swoop, the museum effortlessly overcomes the banal asphalt surface that separates it from the river and the inconspicuous shed becomes a landmark with a golden roof as its billboard.

This text is based on an article by Sofie De Caigny, published in Flanders Architectural Review N°12: Tailored Architecture.