NORD Architects wins the Marine Education Centre competition
06/11/2014.
[Malmö] Sweden
metalocus, ÁNGEL BLANCO
metalocus, ÁNGEL BLANCO
Danish studio NORD Architects has released designs for a new Marine Education Centre in Malmö, Sweden. The Copenhagen-based studio, awarded the commission through an invited competition, hopes to “blur the distinction between architecture and landscape” with a project that helps users gain a “deeper understanding of marine life.”
Sunset rendering. Marine Education Centre by NORD Architects.
Overview rendering. Marine Education Centre by NORD Architects.
Model without roof. Marine Education Centre by NORD Architects.
Model with roof. Marine Education Centre by NORD Architects.
Rendering. Marine Education Centre by NORD Architects.
Ground floor plan. Marine Education Centre by NORD Architects.
Section. Marine Education Centre by NORD Architects.
West elevation. Marine Education Centre by NORD Architects.
Sustainability diagram. Marine Education Centre by NORD Architects.
Axonometric diagram, ideas. Marine Education Centre by NORD Architects.
Axonometric diagram, ideas. Marine Education Centre by NORD Architects.
Learning Landscape – where landscape and building become one.
Johannes Molander Pedersen, partner at NORD Architects says.- “With the changing climate, rising oceans and increased severity of cloudbursts, there is a need more than ever to understand the profound influence that marine life and the oceans have on our lives”.
NORD Architects and Grontmij Malmö were recently named winners of the invited competition to design a new Marine Educational Centre in Malmö – a facility that strives to provide users with a deeper understanding of marine life.
The team won the competition with an innovative proposal that combines the architecture and landscape; creating an engaging learning landscape. The indoor and outdoor spaces merge together under a large roof, encouraging visitors to dive into a multitude of educational activities with a principle focus on marine life.
In the learning landscape, users will find floating laboratories on small removable pontoons, teaching signs on the seabed and underwater sea binoculars to name a few. Inside the centre, guests are able to study the buildings technical installations and the role that the architecture plays as part of the areas resource cycle. Water handling, energy consumption and ventilation are all on display and work as a key part of the learning experience.
The centre was designed to be highly flexible, allowing the built organisation and allocated functions to adapt over time with the emergence of new technologies and changing needs.
“We have developed a learning landscape where education is everywhere. It is in the landscape, in the building and in the transition between nature and culture. The centre is open for everyone who is interested in the role we as humans play in nature’s life cycle. It allows a hands on learning experience that invites users to explore using their senses in the field, and thereafter analyze and understand their observations of the marine life”, says Johannes Molander Pedersen.
CREDITS.-
Competition.- Marine Education Centre
Award.- First Prize
Architects.- NORD Architects and Grontmij Malmö
External Consultant.- The Øresund Environment School, City of Copenhagen.
Client.- Malmö City.
Area.- 700.0 sqm building and 3000sqm landscape.
Completion is slated for 2016.
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Morten Rask Gregersen, Johannes Molander Pedersen. NORD Architects
NORD Architects is a creative office, established in Copenhagen, Denmark and by founding partners in 2003, Morten Rask Gregersen, Johannes Molander Pedersen and Mia Baarup Tofte. During the years we have employed a multidisciplinary staff of urban planners, architects, landscape architects, process consultants, art historians, academics within social and cultural studies along with our technical staff. Besides realizing various projects, they are often asked to lecture and have been taking part in exhibitions and publications on several occasions. NORD Architects operates as total advisors, collaborators and client advisors on projects within the public and private sector.
The office is taking on a broad range of assignments within architecture, urban development and innovation processes. Descripción NORD Architects is known by the ability to develop and innovate content and engage with the clients and users relating to a project.
Their work is often characterized by a high level of complexity that is organized and embodied in a specific design. They consider every project we undertake as a process of change. Therefore they focus on how to design the process itself. Theye call it process design. This method has resulted in the realization of several prizewinning projects spanning from the development of new types of institutions, urban spaces, urban development strategies and learning environments.
The office is taking on a broad range of assignments within architecture, urban development and innovation processes. Descripción NORD Architects is known by the ability to develop and innovate content and engage with the clients and users relating to a project.
Their work is often characterized by a high level of complexity that is organized and embodied in a specific design. They consider every project we undertake as a process of change. Therefore they focus on how to design the process itself. Theye call it process design. This method has resulted in the realization of several prizewinning projects spanning from the development of new types of institutions, urban spaces, urban development strategies and learning environments.
