Lund + Slaatto Architects, in collaboration with schmidt hammer lassen architects, were recently awarded second place in the competition for the extension of the Stavanger Museum of Archeology. Though very vibrant and active, the premises of the museum are currently unsuitable and small. Therefore, the aim of the competition was to create an extension that forms the museum’s new main facade and which primarily provides space for the exhibition and education. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The new exhibition building subordinates the quarter as a whole and wants to establish a coherent quarter in which the weight and mineral quality of the building character recur, the old dairy block, via the addition from the 90s and the new exhibition building. This totality is reflected in how the new and the old museum meet, the buildings gets almost sewn together and structure and design overlap. The formal treatment of the volume makes the same emphasis. The roof slabs are triangulated to form a continuous connection between the 90-century building, the new exhibition building and the old dairy building to the north-west of the site.
