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Munch + Stenersen Museum
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Created: 04/14/09
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Grindaker AS
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Munch + Stenersen Museum
Various Architects were asked by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (NYC) to collaborate on the planning and design competition for a new Munch + Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway. Hav Eiendom has invited 10 architects and prequalified another 10 (out of 199
applicants) for this prestigious new competition. Diller Scofidio +
Renfro were among the 10 prequalified offices.Introductory text from the project description:
The museum is an amphibious land/water dweller. The programmatic organization of the Museum exploits land, water, and the in-between to create a rich experience for visitors and a clear functional logic for museum staff. The back-of-house space of the museum is land bound at the north, closest to urban support functions. Entry to the museum and visitor related spaces and services dip into the harbor through the sub-aquatic hall and connect to the galleries that dramatically emerge from the water at the southern end in an iconic art tower. This separation of the major building functions by water is both symbolic and functional. It positions the art collections in a site that is free of the everyday, free from distraction, free from time concerns. The separation also allows for a more secure place for the art, elevated off the water with few and highly very visible attenuated routes out of the building.
For museum staff, the northern side of the building includes secure, generous and state-of-the-art loading-receiving and handling facilities, storage, administrative offices, and conservation laboratories. For the public arriving from the north, an all-glass ground floor museum café-bookstore opens out onto the beach to catalyze its social life outside while promoting a library-like atmosphere for lingering and reading within. Visitors to the museum proceed along its sheltered public walk at the water’s edge, descending a gentle grand stair with overlooks into the Lecture Hall / Event Space. Arriving in the sub-aquatic hall, visitors have pre-admission access to the education center, children’s play area, and general information. From this hall, patrons continue through ticketing and coat check into the museum galleries. They may alternatively by-pass the museum and rejoin the public sequence via an outdoor stair to the winter garden and destination restaurant. Ascending to the art experience, the gallery structure cranes towards the fjord to the south, providing visitors with alternating views of the sea and the city while circulating through the building.The circulation path culminates in a spectacular framed view of the islands in the fjord from the uppermost gallery and a panoramic view back to Oslo from the roof garden. Museum visitors will enter the building on land, then dip underwater for ticketing and guest service functions before ascending the galleries by stair or elevator. This sequence bypasses the public space at the water’s edge while still offering glimpses of the water along the way. A continuous spiral of circulation takes visitors through four floors of galleries sheared in section into eight half levels. The Munch and Stenersen collections can be zoned independently; they could crossover or could be blended. North-facing galleries augment artificial lighting with controlled clerestory light, while south-facing galleries are artificially lit with abstracted views to the water below through glass floors along leading edges. The choreography through the museum reveals unexpected moments of orientation and moments of sublime disorientation, while providing spaces to pause and contemplate, receive interpretive information, and refresh the senses. At the roof top, the sculpture garden and espresso bar provide 360-degree views of the fjord and the city.
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