The masterplan consolidates the Museum of Contemporary Art, Natural History Museum, and House of Architecture within a public park that functions as civic terrain. Programming includes permanent and temporary exhibition halls, research facilities, educational laboratories, and social spaces that open outward to terraces, a botanical garden, and a flexible plaza for events. The layout creates a porous boundary between indoors and outdoors so exhibitions, gatherings, and everyday encounters unfold across both architectural and landscaped settings. Three monolithic, stone-clad volumes recall Montenegro’s mountains and are organized to encourage fluid circulation between galleries and shared public spaces, strengthening the city’s connection to the Morača River.
A new Museum District and Park of Arts & Culture in Podgorica, Montenegro is set to transform the city's relationship with its riverfront. Designed by Milan- and London-based a-fact architecture factory, in collaboration with LAND, Maffeis Engineering, and Charcoalblue, the competition-winning project will consolidate cultural institutions within a landscape that strengthens the link between the city and the Morača River.
Three sculptural volumes designed by a-fact architecture factory will emerge from the riverbank museum masterplan of Podgorica, Montenegro. Their boulder-like massing is conceived as a continuation of the topography. Designed by the team to be clad in stone, the buildings recall the mountains that surround Montenegro while introducing a precise and contemporary architectural language. The material strategy ties the complex to its geographical setting while projecting an image of cultural renewal for Podgorica.
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