Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA), Munich, Germany

The Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA) in Munich, Germany acts as a meeting place for local but also international public art. The museum’s statement of intent is as follows: “With the founding of the MUCA® we would like to focus on contemporary and urban art. The young art forms, Street- and Urban Art, will be on display to a wide audience in intelligent exhibitions as well as through lectures, film screenings and guided tours.

This project is an example an innovative adaptive re-use of an historic utility building into an international cultural center. The energy concept for the refurbishment and conversion of the MUCA is based on minimal intervention with the building fabric due to the historic value of the building. We worked to maximize the comfort of the interior conditions with low-tech solutions that are, for the most part, removable in the future.