Expansion of the Ordrupgaard Museum . Located at Vilvordevej 110, Charlottenlund , Denmark , it is a work by Zaha Hadid , built between 2001 and 2005 , as a result of a competition called by the Danish Ministry of Culture , which aimed to: improve the space conditions and conservation of the works , and create larger spaces for exhibitions and visitors, adding a new foyer, a cafeteria and a multipurpose room.
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Description
The project, which doubles the museum’s surface to occupy 1,150 m², is above all, for Hadid , a new opportunity to investigate the relationship between architecture and landscape, as well as between history and formal innovation.
The pre-existing building dates back to 1918 , and is the work of Wilhelm Hansen . Enlargement is not intended to follow the language of the main body, nor to adopt a passive or reverent attitude. Rather, it uses a zoomorphic shape, almost mimicked among the park’s vegetation, which observes it, around a position similar to that of an animal crouched on the grass, curled up.
The plasticity of the volumes and the dance of the lines define Hadid’s architecture. The new galleries take the form of a manifest use of reinforced concrete, thus declaring their presence through a physical, material, sculptural language. At the same time, the glass walls framed by the cement strips lighten the volume and open the view to the outside. But not only this, they lend themselves to an almost metaphorical compositional game: the glass “cuts” the cement diagonally.
The sinuous profile calls the landscape, envelops it, invites it to a dialogue of curves that run through the architecture, involving the paths of the park. In this trip of lines, the architecture remembers the course of a ribbon and supports, as if it were a guide, the movements of its visitors.
The soul of architecture joins that of those who explore it, the maximum synthesis for the project of a space designed for man. A record of three and two dimensional geometries moves the story of this project, in which Zaha Hadid confirms her inclination for the themes of flow, movement and dynamism.
Data sheet
- Developer: Danish Ministry of Culture and Ordrupgaard Museum.
- Design: Zaha Hadid.
- Project managers: Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher.
- Project architect: Ken Bostock.
- Project team: Caroline Krogh Andersen.
- Model: Riann Steenkamp.
- Competition team: Ken Bostock, Patrik Schumacher, Adriano de Gioannis, Sara de Araujo, Lars Teichmann, Tiago Correia, Vivek Shankar, Cedric Libert.
Consultants:
- Local architect: PLH Arkitekter (Copenhagen, Denmark).
- Structure: Jane Wernick Assoc (London, UK), Birch & Krogboe.
- Services: Ove Arup (London, UK), Birch & Krogboe (Copenhagen).
- Lighting: Arup Lighting (London, UK).
- Acoustics: Birch & Krogboe.
