Taking advantage of some new photo looking Transport Museum on the River Clyde from the south, February 11, 2011. Historical development of Clyde and the city is a unique heritage, with sites located where the Kelvin flows into the Clyde from the city building can flow into rivers. In doing so it can represent a dynamic relationship in which the museum is the second voice, connecting the two sides and allow the museum to be a transition from one to another. Thus the Museum of Transport put themselves in the context of the very origin and promote connectivity between the exhibition and the wider context.
Transportation Museum Building will be tunnel like warehouse, which opened at the ends of the city and the Clyde. In doing so it becomes porous with context on both sides. However, the connection from one to another is where the transfer of buildings to make a trip away from the external context into the world on display. Here the interior roads as a mediator between the city and the river which can be hermetic or porous depending on the layout of the exhibition. So the Museum of Transport symbolic and functional position itself as open and fluid with the involvement of the context and content.
The Transport Museum building is conceived as a sectional extrusion open at opposing ends along a diverted linear path. The cross-sectional outline is a responsive gesture to encapsulating a wave or a ‘pleated’ movement. The outer pleats are enclosed to accommodate the support services and black box exhibits. This leaves the main central space to be column-free and open.
Circulation is through the main exhibition space. Openings are envisaged in the roof and walls as appropriate. It is perceived that there should be views out of the exhibition space. These would allow the visitors to build up a gradual sense of the external context, moving from exhibit to exhibit. All openings would be solar controlled so that total black out could be achieved when required. At the end, with a view of the Clyde and the Kelvin, is the café and corporate entertainment space. These also allow access and overflow into the open courtyard. The end elevation is like the front elevation with an expansive clear glass façade. It has a large overhang to reduce solar exposure to the building interior. It will allow expansive views up and down the Clyde.
The landscape is designed to direct the activities surrounding the building. A ring of varying stones slabs creates a shadow path around the building. On the west side the hard surface progresses to a soft landscape of grass to create an informal open courtyard space. A line of trees will be added alongside the existing ferry quay to reduce the exposure of this area to prevailing winds. Along the south side and the east, shallow water pool features are used to give continuity with the river at quay level.
The new Transport Museum Glasgow will be a replacement for the Museum currently located at the Kelvin Hall. It is to be built on a site where the River Clyde meets with Glasgow’s other main river, the River Kelvin, adjacent to Glasgow Harbour. Councillor Charlie Gordon is reported as stating that he wants to turn the Glasgow Transport Museum into an “even more popular Transport Museum in an iconic building down by the Clyde”. He has achieved his desire for a world – class architect which created controversy earlier this year.
A total of 44 architects and designers had expressed an interest in working on the project, with 3 from Scotland. Three architectural practices and two exhibition design teams made it to the Glasgow Transport Museum Shortlist from which Zaha Hadid was selected. The selection process for an architect was assisted by Professor Dugald Cameron, former Principal of Glasgow School of Art.
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