A new museum dedicated to paper arts will launch in the North Jutland region of Denmark in the coming years with an adaptive reuse design from Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). The concept renderings for the reimagined new home of the six-year-old Museum for Paper Art were unveiled today along with an endorsement from its founder, the psaligrapher Bit Vejle.
The project converts a former supermarket building by extending its footprint to almost 25,000 square feet and adding a roof canopy resembling a single sheet of folded paper that sweeps down to cover glass-enclosed public areas lining the perimeter.
Paper and its source combine to drape the structure's interior surfaces and Ingels’ team has said the exterior of the market building also will be covered by a new acoustics-regulating origami-inspired paper art commissioned from local Danish artists in deference to the medium’s importance to the history of the Nordic region. A small café is also included. BIG's project announcement says it will achieve a DGNB Gold or Platinum certification.
"Paper art is about creating three-dimensional shapes and complex images from a monochromatic two-dimensional material - a sheet of paper," BIG's founder said, speaking to the conceptual simplicity. "By treating the roof surface as such - a single sheet of folded paper - existing and new functions are brought together in one unifying gesture. The expressive is accentuated by the clear, complexity arises from simplicity."
BIG partner David Zahle says it is a "unified space inspired by paper and crafted in wood." He added: "In this way, the old and new are connected under one roof. In the foyer and assembly space, the old structure is clearly felt within the new one."
The firm also recently designed the new LUGT Refugee Museum further south in Oksbøl, Denmark, and announced major projects in Las Vegas and at the United Nations campus in New York City.
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Guess their mood board was Ishigami.
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