Location: Odense, Denmark.
Architect: Kengo Kuma & Associates.
The goal of the project is to construct a new structure for the H.C. Andersen Museum, a garden and cultural hub located in the centre of the city where Andersen was born. The location is situated in Odense between a neighbourhood with older tiny traditional wooden homes and a freshly built urban area.
The museum areas are made up of a chain-like arrangement of circular forms that are tangent to one another. They are structured non-hierarchically and non-centrically. The garden and pathways above ground are defined by the continuous curving linear green wall, which also expands and tracks the underlying space structure. Throughout the entire site, it meanders and weaves in and out, above and below the surface. Visitors will find themselves between inside and outdoors in the succession of interconnected places as the green wall appears and vanishes. The narrative and components of the museum’s trip would be his work; through spatial composition and ambiguity, the duality of the contrary, which dissolves boundaries, will be read.
Area: 5600 m²
Year: 2022
Photographs: Rasmus Hjortshøj- COAST
Landscape Design: MASU Planning
City: Odense
Country: Denmark