New Hungarian Natural History Museum

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BIG Bjarke Ingels Group has won the international competition to design the home of the new Hungarian Natural History Museum in Debrecem, Hungary’s second-largest city. The 23,000-square-meter complex will go up within the centuries-old Great Forest (Nagyerdő) in the form of three overlapping sloping volumes covered with native vegetation. The location is a former sports ground near Nagyerdei Stadion, and the scheme was drawn up in collaboration with Vikár és Lukács Építés Stúdió. Museum Studio, and TYPSA. The new building will replace the institution’s existing premises in Budapest. The layout of spaces, organized radially, allows the volumes to intersect and give rise to housing exhibition halls, a library, and a variety of educational and research facilities. The result is an artificial hill of gentle organic forms blending into the landscape.