Between City and Landscape. Museum of Archaeology in the Constanța Peninsula

Authors’ Comment

Between City and Landscape
Reconnecting a Lost Edge

The Constanța Peninsula carries within it the layers of two millennia of history, yet it has gradually lost something essential: its connection to the sea. The urban plateau and the port zone coexist today as two separate worlds, divided by a neglected slope — a space without identity or public life.

The project proposes an Archaeology Museum that is not merely a cultural institution, but an urban mediator. The building is positioned on the slope between the city and the port, becoming a bridge — physical, visual and symbolic — between the historic fabric of the peninsula and the waterfront. Public space does not stop at the museum entrance: it continues through the building, ascending and descending through terraces and belvederes, reintroducing the sea into the everyday visual field of the city.

The innovation of the project lies in treating the archaeological archive not as a closed repository, but as a lived narrative. The ruins are integrated into the museum's route, visible and accessible, transforming the act of visiting into a layered experience in which the city's past reveals itself gradually, through space and light...