Bornholms Museum

Extension of Bornholm’s city museum, Rønne, Denmark.

The competition proposes to think how to extend the Bornholms Museum, the local institution that collects all the folk art of the island of Rønne. The museum had to double its exhibition and storage area, occupying the actual gardens and empty parts of the plot.

Rønne is a low-rise city, with very low density. The streets have a very open section, with pitch roofs opening to the sky. There is a high proportion of empty space in relation to the built fabric.
Therefore, the enlargement grows out of the existing roofs, working with folding planes in order to lower down the scale of the intervention in this low scale environment.
The proposal also organizes the open-air areas of the museum as a sequence, with the intention of relating them to the citie’s inner courtyards and the public street space.

The new Museum is required to have an outlook tower. In the proposal this tower is also full of content and exhibition spaces. Its silhouette is reminiscent of the old chimneys to produce smoked fish.