This museum is a concept project inspired by fortifications, castles, walls and ruins. The fascination with these effectively man-made landscapes is not only due to their romantic and historic content, but their material and spatial qualities – earth, scale, mass, light. The castle is imagined as a new project that has appropriated an existing 17th-century ruin.

The modern extension (with loosely defined use) is materially and spatially indistinct from what was original. Masonry walls, earth and large frame timber (what remains of it) work seamlessly with concrete retaining walls and a laminated timber framework construction and glass.

There is a main external entrance, a forecourt and courtyard, encircled by a walled ambulatory framing an open, internal green space. This ambulatory ring pitches down to the south affording views into the distant horizon. The total complex is reduced to a few material:, concrete, earth, grass, timber and glass.