On August 14, the Danish Ordrupgaard Museum opened a new underground gallery as the second extension of its facility. This came 16 years after Zaha Hadid added a 1,150m extension to the original WW1 building in 2005.2.
Snøhetta has managed to live up to the confession of expanding the Ordrupgaard museum
At this point, the Danish Ordrupgaard Museum houses the most extensive collection of French and Danish art in northern Europe from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Recently, her activities required the expansion of the exhibition space, and to this end, the museum announced that it wanted projects that would fit into the demanding location in which it is located. The best idea came from the Snøhetta company, which met this challenge by creating an underground gallery.
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The biggest problem in expanding the Ordrupgaard museum was the location itself, because the new facility had to be placed between the WW1 residence, a gallery established in 2005 and… a protected forest. To this end, Snøhetta made her “surgical cut” between these objects (at times they will approach the entire 1.5 meters to the existing buildings) and in the ground, 6 meters underground, poured concrete as the basis of her gallery. This one measures 1,800 square meters and has been decorated as little invasively as possible so as not to damage the landscape.
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The areas of the new gallery are connected to the previous extension and although it has a similar concrete motif, in many places the exhibition spaces have reached for a brighter finish and thus a warmer atmosphere. The exhibition spaces are also designed to be flexible and allow museum curators to change art and décor with relative ease.
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On the surface, the expression of this new underground gallery of the Danish Ordrupgaard is manifested by a metal cuboid welded at many angles in the center of the seating steps. It is also underneath the largest exhibition space.
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