Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing
Make No Small Plans: An architect with offices in Moscow and Berlin creates a fitting tribute for the display and study of historic architectural drawings.
Wrapped in facades of concrete, etched with the fragments of enlarged sketches, the Tchoban Foundation Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin exploits the craft of construction to celebrate the art of drawing. The building is articulated as four slightly offset levels, like a stack of plan files pulled slightly askew—another nod to its holdings. Referring to the contents was the scheme of the man animating the entire project. Architect Sergei Tchoban, an accomplished draftsman and collector of historical architectural drawings, who practices in Germany and Moscow, established a foundation in 2009 to display his collection and to encourage young architects to draw. Subsequently, the foundation's board of trustees decided to build a museum with an archive, study facilities, and exhibition space. Tchoban's Moscow office (SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov) developed the design, and his Berlin branch (NPS Tchoban Voss) oversaw the detailing and site supervision.
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