The original structure on site was a grain mill, built in by leading local industrialist Wilhelm Vedder. This was replaced in by the complex of three buildings that makes up the museum today. Over the years a boiler house, a series of adjacent steel silos, and other buildings were added, until the facility closed down in the s. Respectful to the existing, orthogonal brick volumes on site and the wider setting, the architects created an addition that becomes a seamless part of the historical whole.
Divided into three parts, the new addition contains exhibition halls, as well as utilities and art-handling facilities across five floors one is underground and a massing arrangement led by local planning guidelines that stipulate no building within 40m of the autobahn. Bridges through the existing silos connect the old and new parts β although these industrial features will serve more than one purpose as American artist James Turrell has created two permanent site-specific installations for them, which are planned to be revealed in Materials were chosen to complement and draw on the historical fabric.
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