Anno Domkirkeodden Norway
The proposed project, a collaboration with AA Collective gathers together the surrounding landscape and building volume in a single sectional entity. Irregular forms allow niches, a sort of poché where nature is allowed to encroach on the built form. The building cores, heavy objects centered on each volume allow organisation and distribution as well as vertical circulation. Space is gathered between these cast objects and the landscape beyond. The landscape and horizon form a continuous visible datum. The facade crystalline and delicate merges with the immediacy of the landscape. Horizontal emphasis allows angles to appear coherent and from others divided. The building volumes splay outward in a welcoming gesture towards the proposed square and Sverre Fehn’s Hedmark Museum flanked by the pilgrimage route.
The spatial organization of the volumes sharpens the separation and connection between them public and the private parts of the building. Exhibition spaces are dynamic and distributed over two levels to allow maximum variety for curators and visitors. Both exhibition rooms allow natural light and varied perspective with the landscape beyond. Exhibition room 1, the landscape room, is located in the southern volume and offers exhibitions that address the site directly. Exhibition room 2, the excavation room, is lit from zenith through two vertical openings in the landscape allowing indirect light to the excavated facade. The cast earth creates the character of the space and is recognisable from the load-bearing elements, where, between the facade and the opening in the ground, there are small sunken gardens. These excavations accommodate small eco systems, where plants, water and stones provide a local environment for ecology.
Subdivision of the rooms is allowed through large format demountable dividers to ensure spatial variety respective of exhibition content. Public functions; lecture theater, dining hall and retail space all occupy the connected open spaces bound by the entrance hall and foyer. Plan and section as an interpretation of the classical enfilade plan and picturesque section as a spatial organization. This unifying quality without vertical subdivision subverts the tri-form plan creating an open democratic quality.
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