WORLD CULTURE MILL.
Museum building.
Museum building
in Oslo
What should the building of the Museum of Art, Architecture and Design be like?
It should be a message building. building as the tool and the program. It becomes an exhibit and a global community of artists, architects and designers. Several architects, industrial and graphic designers develop architecture of the building, each of them resposible for a separate level. These levels comprise the building of the museum – World Culture Mill in Oslo.
Concept
The old legend and the arms of Oslo become a basis for a new symbol. The millstone becomes a sign and also a fundamental scheme of the museum organization.
The building in the form of a cylinder made of several disks is laconic and simple. A circle layout arranges circular horizontal movement at each level; a square is a functional core of vertical communications.
Instead of one star Oslo receives at least several. Five millstones – five architects, plus invited industrial and graphic designers for designing furniture, accessories and navigation.
Credits
COMPETITION
Place: Norway, Oslo
Year: 2009
Client: Nasjonal Museet
Staatsbug
Size: 40.000 sq m
Status: competition concept
Architects:
Boris Bernaskoni
Igor Chirkin
Pavel Prishin
Sveta Prunskaya
Maria Zlobina
Maria Kosareva
Workscope:
Research
Building design