BIG + TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti is the winning team to design the new National Gallery of Greenland in the country’s capital Nuuk, among invited proposals totaling 6 Nordic architects.
Located on a steep slope overlooking the most beautiful of Greenland’s fjords, the 3000 m2 National Gallery will serve as a cultural and architectural icon for the people of Greenland. The new museum will combine historical and contemporary art of the country in one dynamic institution The winning proposal was selected by a unanimous museum board among 6 proposals, including Norwegian Snøhetta, Finnish Heikkinen‐Komonen, Islandic Studio Granda and Greenlandic Tegnestuen Nuuk.
“The Board has a clear vision: to work for the establishment of an internationally oriented highly professional institution that communicates the continuous project of documenting and developing the Greenlandic national identity through art and culture. Our dream is a national gallery where historic and contemporary art meets circumpolar pieces, Nordic and world art in general. Our dream is an institution that stimulates our curiosity, awake our excitement with its thought‐provoking design and where we all feel at home. Selecting a prominent architect as BIG, I am sure that our chances of realizing that dream are good”, Tuusi Josef Motzfeldt, Greenland’s National Gallery of Art.
As a projection of a geometrically perfect circle on to the steep slope, the new gallery is conceived as a courtyard building that combines a pure geometrical layout with a sensitive adaption to the landscape. The three‐dimensional imprint of the landscape creates a protective ring around the museum’s focal point, the sculpture garden where visitors, personnel, exhibition merge with culture and nature, inside and outside.
“The Danish functionalistic architecture in Nuuk is typically square boxes which ignore the unique nature of Greenland. We therefore propose a national gallery which is both physically and visually in harmony with the dramatic nature, just like life in Greenland is a symbiosis of the nature. We have created a simple, functional and symbolic shape, where the perfect circle is supplied by the local topography which creates a unique hybrid between the abstract shape and the specific location”, Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Partner, BIG.
The slope opens up the sculpture garden towards the city and the view, framing both the sculpture garden and museum functions. A rough looking external façade of white concrete will patina over time and adjust to the local weather, while the circular inner glass façade will consist of a simple and refined frame which contrasts the rough nature and compliments the beautiful view.
" The building will with its simplistic coarseness and harmony with the landscape become a symbol of the current independent Greenlandic artistic and architectural expression.”, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Partner & Project Leader, BIG.
The circular shape of the gallery enables a flexible division of the exhibition into different shapes and sizes, creating a unique framework for the museum’s art. Visitor access to the exhibition happens through a covered opening created by a slight lift in the façade into a lobby with a 180 degree panorama view towards the sculpture garden and the fjord as well as access to the common museum functions, including ticket counters, wardrobe, boutique and a café. The new gallery will create more activity at the waterfront by attracting the whole area is interconnected by a path which like the museum, forms after the shifting inclinations of the terrain. The locals and visitors will be able to admire the clear shape of the gallery which appears as a sculpture or a piece of land‐art.
“Greenland National Gallery for Art will play a significant role for the citizens of Greenland and the inhabitants of Nuuk as a cultural, social, political, urban and architectural focal point that opens towards the city and the world through its perfect circular geometry and shape”, Bjarke Ingels, Stifter & Partner, BIG.
PROJECT: Greenland National Gallery
CLIENT: Nunatta Eqqumiitsulianik Saqqummersitsivia
SIZE: 3000 m2
LOCATION: Nuuk, Greenland
COLLABORATION: TNT Nuuk, Rambøll Nuuk, Arkitekti, MIR, Glessner Group
PARTNER IN CHARGE: Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Pedersen
PROJECT LEADER: Jakob Henke
TEAM: Daniel Selensky, Ji –young Yoon, Gul Ertekin, Aleksander Tokarz, Alessio Zenaro, Johan Cool Nicklas Antoni Rasch
项目位于格陵兰岛一个风光优美，面对峡湾的斜坡上，面积3000平方米，将是格陵兰文化建筑的榜样。主办方从六个提案中选中了BIG的方案。
“董事会希望这是一个国际一流的专业机构，记录和发展格陵兰的艺术和文化。我们期望国家美术馆这个艺术机构符合北欧极地的条件，在这里，能激发好奇心，让人清醒，让人兴奋，让人反思。我们相信BIG可以帮我们实现梦想”---- Tuusi Josef Motzfeldt格陵兰国家美术馆
国家美术馆可以看成一个完美的圆投影在陡峭的斜坡上而成，像一个四合院建筑。具有纯净，敏感的几何景观。博物馆将文化，游客，艺术，景观，自然交融在了一起。
“将Nuuk当地的功能方盒子建筑放在这里就是忽略格陵兰岛的独特自然，我们要将真正属于格陵兰的东西放置在国家美术馆中，就像是一个自然的共生体，无论在身体还是视觉的感受都与自然和谐。我们创造了一个简单，功能性和象征性的形体，将一个完美的圆圈与当地的地形结合，制造出独特的介入。”----Bjarke Ingels，BIG创始人。
在斜坡上的雕塑园，可以很好的观看城市和自然景观，同时其本身也是一道靓丽的风景。建筑粗犷的白色混凝土表面，在当地独特的气候下，会随着时间的推移变绿。内侧巨大，简单精致的玻璃墙引入美仑绝幻的景色。
“与环境融为一体的简练粗犷建筑，会成为格陵兰艺术建筑的代表。”---- Andreas Klok Pedersen ，BIG合伙人与项目负责人。
圆形的艺术馆在功能上实现了对不同形状和大小的展览灵活布置，提供了一个有利的框架。游客在这里观赏还能观赏到一个180°的全景雕塑园和峡湾风光，并能体验博物馆的各种功能如：售票，更衣，精品商店，咖啡馆。与地形融为一体的博物馆紧密联系周边地区，为峡湾带来了更多的活力。游客和当地人们甚至可以将画廊当成一个雕塑和大地艺术进行欣赏。
“完美几何圆形体的格陵兰国家艺术馆将成为一个向世界开放，融合格陵兰人民，文化，社会，政治，城市，建筑集结点。” ----Bjarke Ingels，BIG创始人。
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