Railway Museum
The expansion of the Railway Museum seeks to connect the different historic trainyard buildings as well as the outdoor exhibition area into one continuous experience. The reconstruction proposal emphasizes the historic train depot site as the museum's central exhibit piece.
Historic photograph of a railway depot characteristic of the period.
Railway architecture is defined by the scale of trains and tracks. These dimensions form a module which repeated throughout the buildings.
Location: Riga, Latvia
Client: SJSC “Latvijas dzelzceļš”
Architecture: GAISS, MADE arhitekti
Team: Arnita Melzoba, Kārlis Melzobs, Agnese Mālniece
Plot size: 18270 m²
Floor surface: 5435 m²
Year: 2017