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Moderna Museet Malmö by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
Stockholm studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter have completed a museum in Malmö, Sweden, adding an extention clad in perforated orange metal.
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Called Moderna Museet Malmö, the project involved renovating the existing building and adding a new entrance hall, cafe and upper gallery.
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The following information is from the architects:
Moderna museet Malmö
A starting point was that a new art museum, a public and cultural building, represents a rare opportunity to create a new node within the city, the urban balance is changed and the neighborhood develops.
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In Malmö, in the south of Sweden, there was also the possibility to, starting from the industrial architecture of the former Electricity plant dating from the year 1900, create a new art museum with an informal and experimental character that would complement the main museum in Stockholm.
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The greatest challenge posed by the project, (in addition to the demanding eighteen-month time limit from sketch-design to inauguration), was the need to adapt the existing industrial brick building to current climatic and security requirements to comply with the highest international standards for art exhibition spaces.
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It soon became clear that in reality what was needed was a building within a building, a contemporary addition within the existing shell. This radical reconstruction not only provided a challenge, but also gave the opportunity for something new.
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Seen from the exterior a new extension marks the arrival of the new museum. The extension provides a new entrance and reception space, as well as a cafeteria and a new upper gallery.
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Its perforated orange façade both connects to the existing brick architecture and introduces a contemporary element to the neighbourhood.
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The perforated surface gives the façade a visual depth, and is animated through the dynamic shadow patterns which it creates.
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The ground floor is fully glazed so that sunlight is screened through the perforated façade.
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In relation to its context, the new addition plays with scale.
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From a distance it is only intelligible in comparison to the adjacent houses, only on close proximity the building and details can be read in its own right.
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The elimination of the standard ‘middle-scale’ strengthens the museum's presence in the immediate urban setting, at the same time as letting the building appear as a signal establishing a relationship with Malmö as a whole.
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Inside, the building has been spatially reconstructed. Two new staircases allow the visitor to move in a loop between the grand turbine hall and the upper exhibition rooms.
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The staircases are each enclosed between two walls, which functions to divide the program of the turbine hall into three separate spaces, housing in addition to exhibition spaces a children's studio and a separate loading area (in fact also used for exhibitions).
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As in Kalmar Art Museum, we have been committed to providing exhibition spaces which allow artists and curators to tailor the conditions to each individual exhibition.
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Moderna museet Malmö (Malmö Museum of Art) offers a series of white boxes; from the almost domestic scale of the upper gallery, to the Turbine Hall that boasts a unique space of almost eleven meters in height.
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Project name: Moderna Museet Malmö
Location: Gasverksgatan 22, Malmö, Sweden.
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Client: Stadsfastigheter i Malmö
Start date: 2008
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Completion date: 2009
Project size: 2650 m2
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Exhibition area: 925 m2
Architects: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter.
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Responsible Architects: Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård.
Project Architect: Mia Nygren.
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Architects: Carmen Izquierdo Làzaro (Façade Architect), Helene Amundsen, Susanna Bremberg, Andreas Helgesson, Eric Engström, Mårten Nettelbladt, Marcus Andrén, Dennis Suppers, Alina Scheutzow, Suzanne Prest, Julia Gudiel Urbano.
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User: Moderna Museet (Lars Nittve, Magnus Jensner, Ann-Sofi Noring, Fredrik Liew)
Contractor: NCC Construction
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