Carlo Scarpa, Musee D'Orsay, Jewish Museum

Carlo Scarpa

Canova Museum, Possagno

http://www.italianways.com/the-canova-museum-and-cast-gallery/

http://www.evermotion.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?72756-Canova-Museum-Vray-Fog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KxXgkEWK1U

Scarpa said, describing his endeavor, “Light was the problem I faced in improving the gallery: I had to deal with sculptures, not paintings, and not marble or wood sculptures but casts made of plaster, an amorphous material that is sensitive to bad weather and needs light, and therefore must be under the sun. And when the sun moves around a sculpture, it never has a negative effect…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6grSXNoz3YE

Carlo Scarpa was brave enough to display white plaster sculptures on a matching colour background. This idea was very controversial. The sculptures bath in the sunlight, shadows divide the sculpture whom the whiteness of a background. Dramatic lighting, illuminates the sculptures like actors on the stage. The sun light brush the walls in different angles through out the day. He said that his cubic windows - "Catch fragments of the sky" Light bounces perpetually backwards and forwards.

Almost all plaster sculptures by Canova are originally covered with little dots (small points) as they were "draft" models for future marble sculptures. Dotting helped the Sculptor to identify and copy the shape. In a white background go the museum, the dots stand out and underline the shape of the sculpture.  

The Three Graces sculpture is divided from the rest of the collection. It is places in a specially added part, there it is surrounded by nature, water, sky and sunlight. 

The fog was introduced into the Museum space. I think it is a very clever idea to catch the light with the help of water, to turn the light into an"object". The whole space was transformed, it gained a magical and dreamy look.

Musee D'Orsay, Paris

The building was originally a railway station. By 1939 the station's short platforms had become unsuitable for the longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services. After 1939 it was used for suburban services and part of it became a mailing centre during World War II. 

The building was listed in 1978. Museum is known for a huge collection of Impressionists paintings and Art deco objects.

Additional gallery spaces were added in the main hall by introducing 10 dark rooms. 

Window in the cafe on a photo below.

This is one of the exhibition rooms. I like that the furniture is presented in a context of a room. 

Libeskind

 Jewish Museum, Berlin

The whole museum is an attempt to represent the jewish history with the help of space and architecture. Broken lines, no straight angles, edgy shapes of windows and rooms.
The room with a small triangular window represents the emotional space of a prisoner in the camp.

This is the first thing the visitors see entering the museum. I think it is a very lovely place to rest and have a cup of tea after visiting the mind-blowing and claustrophobic museum space. In this case, darkness and claustrophobic feeling is positive as that what the architect wanted the visitors to feel. 

The museum itself is absolutely huge, learning rooms, all sorts of interactions with the visitor, journey through the space. It was so bid and expressive that i felt dizzy and a bit depressed after the visit, it is the most heavy space I have ever been to.

This is an Interior of Kaiser Wihelm Memorial Church in Berlin

Walls are made of small coloured bricks.

Feels like Space, like an evening sky, blue colour pacifies. Might be very useful for future museum.