Bjarke Ingels, David Zahle, SDF- Danish National Maritime Museum
The
Danish Maritime Museum is fitted into a unique historic and spatial context
between one of Denmark’s most important and famous buildings and a new,
ambitious cultural center. Its spatial context is organized
around a subterranean dry dock. The museum is wrapped around the
underground dry dock creating a spatial void in the center. Interior ramps are
placed in the central void connecting galleries within the museum. Not
only do these ramps and bridges act as connectors for the interior space but
also connects the outdoor space using the roofs of the ramps as walk-ways and
allows the public to view the interior art galleries at adjacent slopes. This
advertises the museum alluring the public to explore the rest of the museum.
Similarly,
South town San Antonio is in the mist of transforming from a run-down historic
district into a new artistic cultural center itself. Our site contains a cafe,
art studios, an underground tunnel, and an outdoor park. The parti design of
the Danish Maritime Museum translates well into what needs to be included into
the design of our site. In a smaller scale the museum would be
conveyed through our art studios and their possible exhibit space alluring the
surrounding art community. The opposite end of the museum which
connects the rest of the galleries in the museum could connect our cafe. Where
the underground dry dock sits on the Danish Maritime Museum could act as a
subterranean courtyard and could continue into our underground passage way.
In
this case the parti of the Danish Maritime Museum which explains the appearance
of its design is its preservation of the subterranean dry dock, linking its
historical past with its modernized present. This
conveys Denmark’s transformation within time and respects its past by not
wiping out the dry dock but using it as an artistic focal point.
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