The proposal for a new gallery for the Kunst Historisches Museum in Vienna places the temporary art gallery under a new translucent roof in one of the two large internal courtyards. The volume of the courtyard creates a unique context for viewing the work and engages the existing building with the new in a very direct way.

In order to distinguish the new gallery and preserve the individual integrity of the exising, it was decided to give a more transitory and impermanent quality to the structure in contrast to the formal permanence of the 19th Century historic courtyard structure designed by Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) and Karl von Hasenauer (1833-1894).