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Danish firm CEBRA has released images of ARCTIC, a new museum and research center dedicated to the study and education  of Greenland and the Arctic, to be located along the Hundested harbour in Halsnæs, Denmark. Although Greenland has been a part of the Kingdom of Denmark for over 600 years, ARCTIC will be the first museum or center that communicates the relationship between these countries through historic, contemporary and future perspectives.

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”The idea is to create a place that currently does not exist in Denmark. A place where Greenland, the Arctic and Denmark are physically linked together, and which can provide visitors with experiences that promote a better understanding of the connections between Denmark, Greenland and the Arctic. A place where we can explore Greenland and the Arctic and where [polar researcher] Knud Rasmussen’s travel descriptions and stories can be expanded to include the history of the whole of the Arctic region – today and in the future,” explains Søren La Cour Jensen, Senior Curator and daily manager of Knud Rasmussen’s house in Hundested. “Just consider themes such as international politics, climate change, new shipping routes and raw materials.”

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The design of the center has been inspired by the traditional architecture of the Arctic region as well as its bright, natural landscape to create an icon, in hopes of making the importance of arctic study literally more visible.

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”The architecture is inspired by the Arctic forces of nature and the buildings with their rounded forms are designed to withstand this type of harsh climate,” explains architect and CEBRA partner Carsten Primdahl. ”A building with sculptural, round forms and curved lines will stand as an iconic and culture-bearing attraction for the town. A cultural attraction that will show the beauty and significance of the Arctic landscape.”  

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The building consists of three interlinking domes housing the various museum and research center program elements, and is surrounded by a series of outdoor spaces to allow visitors to fully take in the Hundested harborfront.

The team will now work with a group of stakeholders to refine the design and determine a construction schedule.

News via CEBRA.

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• Architects: CEBRA
• Location: Amtsvejen 2, 3390 Hundested, Denmark
• Architect In Charge: CEBRA
• Client: Halsnæs Municipality
• Area: 3000.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Courtesy of CEBRA

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• Architects: B+C Architectes
• Location: 14 Rue Jules Guesde, 75014 Paris, France
• Area: 700.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2014
• Photographs: Sebastien Morel

• Conservation Architect: Enrico D’AGOSTINO
• Structural And Environmental Engineers: LM Ingenierie
• Engineers : ATELUX, M&E
• Cost Consultant: Fabrice BOUGON
• Client : Ville de Paris – Direction du Patrimoine et de l’Architecture – DFPE

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The nursery Jules Guesde, built in 1898, is the first Paris public nursey dedicated to small children built with the objective to reinforce the care, sanitary protection and wellbeing of new born and very young children.

Site

The original building is representative of a “generous” architecture which sought, in line with the initial hygienist ideals, comfort, health and wellbeing for the occupants and quality of air which did not exist in the majority of homes at that time.

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Our project of rehabilitation aims to achieve the following objectives:

• increasing the capacity of the day-nursery to receive 33 children with 3 distinct age sections
• creating an new entrance hall for the public on the lower ground floor
• reduction by 50% of the primary energy consumption of the building with an aim for 80kWhEP/m² per year established by the “Paris Climate Protection Plan” to achieve less greenhouse emission and less energy consumption by 2020 in excess of European targets. 

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Street Side Courtyard and the New Entrance
The original brick street facade is richly decorated with polychromatic multi-materials with ceramic floral motifs.

The new entirely glazed facade for the lower ground floor opens out completely and offers a maximum of natural light into the internal spaces including the main entrance hall.

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Street Facade
The design intent for the project is seen in continuity with the original building, taking into account the value of its architectural heritage and its intrinsic qualities (volumes, and natural light penetration).

Cosntruction. Image © Sebastien Morel

At the same time, it introduces contemporary elements which, inspired by the vocabulary and characteristics of the original decorations and playing with the reference to the world of plants as a leading thread, translates and presents them in the global project.

For the lower ground floor facade this play on references is expressed in the tree form of the new steel columns supporting the facade above and which seem to extend the plant form decorations to the ground below, making them “take root”.

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Rear Courtyard Facade 
The same creative spirit and architectural treatment gives life to the rear courtyard. The existing blind facade is transformed into a translucent envelope of polycarbonate with a metal mesh serving as brise-soleil allowing natural light to penetrate internally.

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The mesh, laser cut with tree form shapes, botanical references and enriched with recognizable forms of animals, projects these forms in a shadow play through the polycarbonate.

Elevation

The effect obtained internally suggests an exterior open and natural world, whilst outside the forms and textures of the mesh, directly accessible to the touch and views of the children, constitute for them an interesting sensory and cognitive experience.

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Treatment of Internal Spaces
Our project has integrated the quality of the original generous volumes and maintains the original structure and the largely glazed partitions allowing natural light to penetrate deep inside.

At upper ground floor, in the volume under the restored rooflight, the sleeping space for the “middle children’s section” is accommodated under an igloo shaped structure naturally lit by the new polycarbonate facade.

Section

Product Description.The EVERLITE DANPALON façade facing the courtyard allowed us to transform the existing opaque wall into a translucent backdrop of polycarbonate with an external metal mesh serving as brise-soleil.

The polycarbonate allows natural filtered light to penetrate the large volume under the skylight.

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The mesh, laser cut with tree form shapes, botanical references and enriched with recognizable forms of animals, projects these forms in a shadow play through the polycarbonate.

With an external space surrounded and constrained by imposing buildings the effect obtained internally suggests an exterior open and natural world, whilst outside the forms and textures of the mesh, directly accessible to the touch and views of the children, constitute for them an interesting sensory and cognitive experience.

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