Max Museo / Durisch + Nolli Architetti

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Chiasso, Switzerland
Max Museo / Durisch + Nolli Architetti - Windows, Facade
© Gianpaolo Minelli

Text description provided by the architects. The m.a.x. Museo

The m.a.x. Museo was built according to the desire to create a Museum for figurative and applied Arts, dedicated to Max Huber and Takashi Kono, two important graphic designers of the 20th century. The new museum is open to all kind of Arts, with special reguard for contemporary and multimedial art.

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© Alberto Flammer

The forceful and clear structure, with his illuminated facade, requalifies the entire Chiasso town area dedicated to culture, creating a new place.

Max Museo / Durisch + Nolli Architetti - Facade
© Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

The museum is characterized by a substantial equivalence of structure and space. Exhibition spaces are kept simple and minimal, pervaded with diffuse natural light, to exalt the contents.

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First Floor Plan

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Address:Via Dante Alighieri, 6830 Chiasso, Switzerland

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Cite: "Max Museo / Durisch + Nolli Architetti" 17 Sep 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/428054/max-museo-durisch-nolli-architetti> ISSN 0719-8884

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