New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros

New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Exterior Photography, Waterfront, Facade
© Einar Aslaksen

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  • Architects: Estudio Herreros
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  26300
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2021
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Einar Aslaksen
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Frapont, Cembrit, Lindner, Mutina, Vestre
  • Architects: Juan Herreros, Jens Richter
  • Client: Oslo Kommune, Kultur- og idrettsbygg (KID)
  • Project Director: Gonzalo Rivas
  • Project Team: Beatriz Salinas, Carlos Canella, Andrea Molina, Paola Simone, Carlos Ramos, Iván Guerrero, Ana Torrecilla, Alberto Sánchez, María Franco, Raúl García, Frank Müller, Víctor Lacima, Carmen Antón, Ramón Bermúdez, Margarita Martínez, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Spencer Leaf, Verónica Meléndez, Xavier Robledo, Ricardo Robustini, Paula Vega
  • Local Architects: LPO Arkitekter
  • Facades: Bollinger + Grohmann, ARUP
  • Sustainability: Asplan Viak
  • General Engineering: Multiconsult, Hjellnes Consult, Brekke & Strand Akustikk
  • ICT: Rambøll Norge
  • City: Oslo
  • Country: Norway
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New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Exterior Photography, Waterfront
© Einar Aslaksen

Text description provided by the architects. The future Munch Museum is not only a facility to safeguard and exhibit a fundamental heritage in the history and nature of Norwegian culture. It also constitutes a unique opportunity to develop a contemporary museum concept, nourished by a highly significant urban role and historical responsibility as a cohesive element of the community, not only of Oslo but also of the entire nation.

New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Einar Aslaksen
New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Interior Photography
© Einar Aslaksen
New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Interior Photography, Chair
© Einar Aslaksen

Its ascending itinerary connects the covered public space of the foyer, which houses recreational, commercial, cultural and restaurant uses, with the rooftop terraces/observatory/club, which parallels the discovery of Edvard Munch’s work offer the different historical strata of the city of Oslo. This gesture of conceiving the vertical communications system as a public space/ascending vantage point is the essence of the heterodox character generated by developing a museum vertically. There is more, however: on this itinerary, the visitors discover other types of facilities, namely restaurant and café, administrative offices, the research library, and the education department, which denote a programmatic complexity that goes beyond the conventional idea of the museum as a set of exhibition spaces to be visited and a series of invisible dependencies from which the institution is managed.

New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Interior Photography
© Einar Aslaksen
New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Interior Photography, Stairs
© Einar Aslaksen
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Plans
New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Interior Photography
© Einar Aslaksen

The building is scrupulously committed to energy saving and respect for the natural environment, which the Norwegian people require, by means of a holistic concept in which structure, ventilation systems, and construction collaborate with each other in accordance with the Passive House concept. A minimal carbon footprint, sustainability, recyclability, and maintenance constitute the directives of a building process transformed into an event that is itself centered on experimentation and innovation. The façades, finished in perforated aluminum with different degrees of transparency that give rise to an enigmatic, evanescent perception of the building, which reacts to the slight stimuli generated by Oslo’s climate, thereby creating very different images depending on the time of day; the huge sliding formworks that operate throughout 24 hours; the use of low-emissivity recycled concrete and steel; these and other advances endow the building with its pioneering nature on a number of different fronts.

New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Interior Photography
© Einar Aslaksen
New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Interior Photography
© Einar Aslaksen
New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Interior Photography
© Einar Aslaksen
New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Image 21 of 25
Cross Section
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Long Section
New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Interior Photography

The new Munch Museum, to be opened in the autumn of 2021, will be a dynamic center for contemporary culture and for a public varying in age and interests (experts, schoolchildren, tourists, art lovers) whom it is hoped will periodically visit the facility attracted by a program with a wide variety of formats. Its intense activity will shift Oslo’s center of gravity towards its point of encounter with the fiord, thereby refounding, through culture and the vigor of civil society, the original Viking port that gave rise to the city.

New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros - Interior Photography
© Einar Aslaksen

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Address:Oslo, Norway

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Cite: "New Munch Museum / Estudio Herreros" [Nuevo museo Munch / Estudio Herreros] 03 Nov 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/971237/new-munch-museum-estudio-herreros> ISSN 0719-8884

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