“A museum for Viking age heritage, the ultimate danger of falling somewhere to close to the literal architectural interpretation of Viking age building, or doing a late 20th century modernist museum with all its niceness and whiteness, in complete ignorant incoherence with a rather rough Viking age feeling.”

The project investigates the collision of scale and space. Obstructing elements. An absurd and unpolished atmosphere with roots in the exploration of a dark, yet intriguing space. The design takes its offset in a design competition arranged by the Historical Museum of North Jutland, Denmark, aimed at developing design proposals that will form the conceptual basis for a new Viking Museum.

The construction plays an important role in perceiving exterior and interior. The outer shape follows a noticeable and clear line in the landscape. Being smooth and nicely curved in the cafe area, it slowly transforms while the building narrows in towards the end of the exhibition. A mediation of space in relation to a profound mood and interpretation of the Viking heritage, has been central to the design. Structural investigations and the exploration of a linkage between form finding and structural analysis has been implemented by means of a morphogenetic optimization procedure.

“Intelligent Formation” is a first semester master’s project by Johan Kure, Kemo Usto, Kenn Clausen, Thiru Manickam & Douli Chen, developed at the School of Architecture, Design & Media Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark.

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