New Maritime Museum and Exploratorium / Cobe + Transform Architects

Text description provided by the architects. Porsgrunn Maritime Museum and Exploratorium is situated in the norwegian town of Porsgrunn, 100 kilometer south west of Oslo. The modern museum will tell the fib of the town ’ mho pier cubic yard industry and its maritime history, which has employed thousands of people from the hale region. In addition, the attractive localization of the museum right on the riverside opens up an important process for the city concerning the future extensive urban renewal of the entire Porsgrunn Harbor area. ” Porsgrunn is an industrial town, which is reflected intelligibly in the museum ’ sulfur surrounding context. It consists of little to medium size industries in the human body of little characteristic wooden buildings. It was important to create a museum with a high level of sensitivity towards these surroundings, even at the same time for the new Maritime Museum and Exploratorium to stand out as a dramatic contemporary building and become a landmark of Porsgrunn ”, Lars Bendrup explains, Owner of TRANSFORM, and continues : “ Our general vision was to turn a rear into a frontside. With the new museum the town will now orientate itself towards the beautiful river, which for much excessively long has been Porsgrunn ’ s industrial buttocks ”. New meets old The new Maritime Museum and Exploratorium is composed of eleven smaller square volumes, together amounting to about 2,000 m2. Each bulk has a different roof lean that assembled make up a varied roof structure. A characteristic aluminum facade, locally produced in Porsgrunn, not alone holds the active building structure together, but at the lapp time it reflects light and colors from the surrounding norwegian mountain landscape. Dan Stubbergaard, Founder and Creative Director of COBE, elaborates : ” It is a sensible art adding modern to old in a historic area. First of all we wanted to understand the sphere ’ south characteristics and then we wanted to strengthen it but at the lapp time create something new and contrasting. The abrupt build up social organization of downscaled build volumes and the expressive roof profile are for example clear references to the sphere ’ s historic minor wooden buildings, which all have their own especial roof profiles. This interpretation of the area ’ south pitched ceiling and small wooden build entities sets the final examination frame for a alone and characteristic contemporaneous construct ”. He continues : “ The goal was to create a house that not only understands and shows consideration for its surroundings, but besides contributes with something radically new and different ”. Porsgrunn on the architectural map The modern Maritime Museum and Exploratorium has already in November 2013 – before its open – received Porsgrunn Municipality ’ s construction practice loot 2013 ( “ Byggeskikkpris ” ). The committee among other things emphasized the expressive human body of the firm, the aluminum facade, and an obvious clear logic of the construction.

” The build is therefore fine that it puts Porsgrunn on the architectural map ”, the foreman of the jury said at the prize ceremony. TRANSFORM and COBE have on other occasions collaborated on a scope of large scale projects in Denmark and afield, and the modern Maritime Museum and Exploratorium merely adds to the list of cultural buildings designed by the two architectural firms. The two firms are besides behind the award winning Culture House and Library in Copenhagen ’ s North-West area, built in 2011 .