New Nordic – Architecture and Identity
Type
InstallationAddress
Gammel Strandvej 13, Humlebæk, DenmarkClient
Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtContractor
Pihl & Søn A/SEngineer
Pihl & Søn A/SConcrete
Unicon A/SLighting consultant
Louis PoulsenYear
2012
The project was created as a part of Louisiana’s exhibition New Nordic – Architecture and Identity. Along with a number of other leading Nordic Architects, Lundgaard & Tranberg was invited to construct a minor building, specially designed for the exhibition.
The result is a piece of architecture, largely referring to material itself. The concrete sculpture is cast in a circular form and mixed with bark which is embedded in the concrete and creates a completely new structure. The floating material absorbs every minor thing it encounters and is marked by even the smallest nuances in the lining of the mould.
A new materiality emerges from the meeting between the porous bark and the solid concrete, allowing opposites to meet and pointing towards the places and materials from where architecture originates.
Culture – the civilized, the settled – is stirred in with the non-manmade material. The natural.
The shape is geometrically precise on the outside and dynamic on the inside. It opens up to new horizons, allowing for both insight and outgoing vision – underlined furtherly by the mirror-floor of the sculpture making the room bigger and pointing beyond itself.
The project is like a concentrate of how we work at the practice where the boundaries of the materials are challenged and experimented with in dialogue between location and materiality.
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