The New Danish Maritime Museum (2007)
Facts:
Client
The Danish Maritime Museum
Area
5,400 m²
Construction sum
€ 17,34 million excl. VAT
Competition
2007, restricted competition
Status
Competition proposal
Landscape Architects
BirkNielsen Landscape Architects and Planners
Description:
To board the New Maritime Museum is to enter a building that communicates both the great dramas of nautical history and its brief lapidary tales. The museum comprises three open flexible decks with partitions enabling the creation of smaller spaces.
On the naturally well-lit and view-commanding upper deck, the arrival area, public and staff facilities, meeting rooms and educational facilities are located.
Large exhibition spaces plus a lecture theatre and a cinema, are to be found both on the middle deck and on the dock bottom where the visitor can step outside and be confronted with the dry dock’s vastness, and enjoy the sense of moving along the side of a large guest vessel that may at any time put to sea in search of new adventures.
An important parameter in the structural design of the museum has been the creation of maximum synergy between the individual display sections, with through-views across one or more storeys. Another is that both the building form and the dock should convey an impressive sense of space.
In its dry dock location, the museum will be abutted by two heritage pieces: Kronborg with its partially restored fortifications, and the shipyard which is to be transformed into a culture yard. Rather than upstaging it, the museum will exploit its unique position to highlight the dock, imbibing its historical resonances.
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