The BIG-designed Tirpitz Museum in the Danish coastal town of Blåvand recently had its grand opening and already appears to be attracting plenty of visitors to the historic site. Unlike its heftier neighbor, the German WWII Tirpitz bunker, the museum finely cuts into the dune landscape and appears to be hidden.
The project's distinct form has already drawn a quirky comparison to a “freshly sliced hot potato” from Bjarke Ingels himself. On the flip side, the museum is designed to serve as a “portal to the Danish West Coast's treasure trove of hidden stories”, says Claus Kjeld Jensen, the Director of the Varde Museum. The Tirpitz Museum intends to take visitors on a scenic journey through the light and dark chapters of the region's history.
The 2,800 m2 museum complex consists of concrete, steel, glass, and wood — four materials and elements that are also found in existing structures and landscape of the region. The museum has four open-air troughs that lead to a central courtyard, which gives access into the four underground gallery spaces.
Currently featuring exhibitions designed by Dutch firm Tinker Imagineers, every gallery space “has its own rhythm, beating in sync with its storyline: high and low, night and day, good and bad, hot and cold, the passing of time,” BIG describes.
The interior is largely composed of wood and hot-rolled steel. Six-meter-tall glass panels facing the central courtyard fill the galleries with natural daylight. The walls of the exhibition rooms were made from concrete cast onsite, supporting the landscape and the roof decks, which cantilever 36 meters out.
From the underground galleries, visitors can walk into the historic Tirpitz bunker itself, and interact with light and shadow plays that demonstrate how the fortress functioned.
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the images scream nazi sympathizer
My comments were inexplicably deleted from the other thread on this project, so I'll just sit here quietly.
The exhibition design...
We know how BIG describes the Architecture, but I wonder about the narratives Tinker Imagineers envisioned while designing them.
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