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The Domkirkeodden waterfront at Hamar, Norway, has a thousand-year history of worship and pilgrimage, and is the site of the Anno Museum.
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The museum includes gardens and a folk collection alongside two world-famous structures: Sverre Fehn’s Storhamar Barn and Lund+Slaatto’s Hamardomen, a huge glass enclosure protecting the ruins of a medieval church.
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In 2021, the museum launched a contest to design extended visitor and conservation facilities at the site.
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Haptic’s entry proposes a distinctive, sensitively placed building matches the quality of those already on site.
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Our architecture draws inspiration from both the topography of the site and the surrounding medieval structures, forming a gateway to the landscape without competing in scale or expression with its neighbours.
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The distinctive roof form of the building is derived from those of Fehn and Lund+Slaatto’s buildings, and the long barns found locally in the Hedemark region.
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The new space features facilities including a reception area, restaurant, exhibition halls, auditorium, workshops and archives. These are accommodated in a building that looks and feels much smaller than might be expected, with large parts of the programme tucked beneath the line of the hill.
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Our proposed diagram for the building is based on clustering complimentary functions to improve efficiency. It is a direct continuation of Fehn’s original concept for the museum experience as a sensory experience – a journey through space, light, darkness, inside and outside.
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The programme is organised around a centrally placed public lobby, giving clear wayfinding around the space and allowing the various functions to operate different opening hours.
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A large stair to the exhibition level also doubles as additional retail display or informal seating.
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We proposed a robust palette of materials, easy to maintain, and a structure typified by simple, repeatable elements that can be produced off-site.
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The key spaces are a repeated cross section of glulam structural elements that can be prefabricated locally, clad with recycled clay bricks and terracotta tiles.