Murad Castle Museum Renovation

Renovation | Bethlehem, Palestine

It was important to renovate and rehabilitate the castle to protect and preserve it from disintegrating; this is done within the historic framework the castle arrived to at the beginning of the project. Any new addition was projected with evident elements that differentiated it from what’s historical, this is done in contrasting between what is old and what is new. The castle itself is a set off to become a national museum through an architectural interference that came to contrast the existing; this is achieved through the utilization of different materials and contemporary technological means, to verify the nature of the addition of that specific period. A glass skin that enfolds the five remaining rooms of the castle to allocate five different historical eras, in addition to a room dedicated to the contemporary art period. Historic pieces and acquisitions are to be displayed in those rooms and in the area that is in between those rooms and the glass skin and finally towards the exterior