© Fernando Alda 

(费尔南多·阿尔达)

古西班牙穆斯林城市的遗骸表明，与一千年前构思和建造它的人进行了对话，但也与考古学家的耐心工作和周围的农业景观进行了对话，遗址的几何学赋予了意想不到的抽象性质。然而，博物馆考古遗址的地形却激起了强烈的共鸣。

The remains of the old Hispano-Muslim city suggested a dialogue with those who a thousand years earlier had conceived and built it, but also with the patient work of archaeologists and with the surrounding agrarian landscape, to which the geometry of the ruins gave an unexpected abstract quality. The terrain of the archaeological site for the museum stirred, however, contrasting feelings.

 © Fernando Alda 

(费尔南多·阿尔达)

一方面，对一段尚未被发现的遥远的过去的渴望弥漫在这片绵延到科尔多瓦山脉的长廊中。另一方面，新建筑的无序增长潜藏在旧城上空。当我们到达这个地方时，我们的第一反应将决定，从第一时间起，我们的建议就决定：我们不应在这种情况下进行建设。

On the one hand, the yearning for a remote past yet to be discovered pervaded the landscape stretching all the way to the mountain ranges of Córdoba. On the other hand, the disorderly growth of new constructions lurked over the old city. Our first reaction when we arrived at the place would determine, from the very first moment, our proposal: we should not build in that landscape.

 © Fernando Alda 

(费尔南多·阿尔达)

在如此广阔的土地上，仍在等待挖掘，我们决定充当考古学家的角色：不是建造新的建筑，而是在地下找到它，仿佛时间的流逝一直被掩盖着。通过这种方式，该项目揭示了一座地下博物馆的平面图，该博物馆将其空间围绕在一系列实心和空旷的空间、覆盖区域和庭院周围，以引导游客沿着他们的行程进行参观。主大厅通向一个有方形平面图的大庭院，作为一个修道院，它周围组织着主要的公共空间：会议厅、自助餐厅、商店、图书馆和展览厅。一个深邃而细长的庭院连接着私人使用领域：行政管理、保护车间和研究领域。最后一个庭院是向博物馆展区外部延伸的地方。这些储物区被认为是巨大的托普利特空间，与展览和传播的公共区域融为一体。该项目的构想意味着扩建的可能性，使增加展馆成为可能，就好像它们是新的挖掘项目一样。

In such a vast extension of land, still waiting to be excavated, we decided to act as an archaeologist would: not building the new structure, but finding it below ground, as if the passage of time had been concealed all this time. In this way the project unveils the floor plan of an underground museum which articulates its spaces around a sequence of solid and void spaces, covered areas and courtyards that guide visitors along their itinerary. The main lobby leads to a large courtyard with a squared floor plan that, as a cloister, organizes around it the main public spaces: assembly hall, cafeteria, store, library and exhibition halls. A deep, elongated courtyard articulates the private use areas: administration, conservation workshops and research areas. A last courtyard is the extension towards the exterior of the museum exhibition areas. The storage areas, conceived as large toplit spaces, blend with the public areas of exhibition and dissemination. The conception of the project entails the possibility of an expansion, making it possible to add pavilions as if they were new excavations.

 © Roland Halbe

罗兰·哈贝

新的博物馆几乎不知不觉地建立了一个永久的对话与建筑和景观的旧阿拉伯梅迪纳。博物馆的双层平面图与城市的平面图是一致的，花园唤起了废弃的挖掘几何图形，混凝土墙和十层钢屋顶用白色和红色反射出哈里发城坚固的墙壁的颜色。光线、阴影、纹理和物质提取了考古遗迹的感知丰富。

The new museum establishes almost imperceptibly a permanent dialogue with the architecture and the landscape of the old Arab medina. The double square floor plan of the museum is homothetic to that of the city, the gardens evoke the abandoned geometry of an excavation, the concrete walls and cor-ten steel roofs reflect with the white and the red the colors of the stuccoed walls of the Caliphal city. Light, shadow, texture and matter extract the perceptive richness of the archaeological ruins.

 © Roland Halbe

罗兰·哈贝

Madinat al-Zahra博物馆静悄悄地出现在风景中，仿佛它是地下发现的，就像它将在过去的岁月里继续发生在乌梅亚德哈里发古城一样。

The Madinat al-Zahra Museum appears silently in the landscape, as if it had been found underground, just like it will keep on happening over the course of the years with the old city of the Umayyad Caliphs.

Architects Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Location Córdoba, Spain

Category Museum

Architect in Charge Fuensanta Nieto, Enrique Sobejano

Project Architect Miguel Ubarrechena

Project Year 2009

Photographs Fernando Alda , Roland Halbe