Open Air Museum Entrance in Hagen
- Sabine Drey
The new entrance complex for the Hagen Open Air Museum consists of two typologically related building volumes with deeply overhanging, wedge-shaped shed roofs. The sheet steel clad northern volume serves as a station building for the planned electrical trackless train that is supposed to provide barrier-free access to the site of the Westphalian State Museum of the history of craftsmanship and technology. The exhibition focusses on metalworks in historic workshops. The waiting area in front of the service building featuring info point, lockers and bathrooms is clearly recognisable as such next to the train stop and underneath the deeply cantilevered roof. It comprises the entrance to and exit of the exhibition in proximity to the visitor parking lot. The building clad in galvanised sheet steel features an integrated oak bench.
