{"id":28341,"date":"2016-06-07T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/?p=28341"},"modified":"2016-08-30T11:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T09:09:27","slug":"kengo-kuma-vince-il-concorso-per-la-h-c-andersens-house-of-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/kengo-kuma-vince-il-concorso-per-la-h-c-andersens-house-of-fairy-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Kengo Kuma wins the competition for H.C. Andersen\u2019s House of Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Kengo Kuma & Associates<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0won the first prize for the international competition to design the\u00a0H.C. Andersen\u2019s House of Fairy Tales in\u00a0Odense<\/strong>, the city in which the Danish writer was born. The site\u00a0is undergoing an intensive renovation process as it will house both the museum dedicated to Andersen,\u00a0the Tinderbox cultural center and\u00a0ample spaces featuring\u00a0gardens.<\/p>\n

Garden, buildings and exhibition spaces are mixed and connected<\/strong> together to form the complexity which\u00a0belongs to the fairy tales world. The visitor, despite the\u00a0location of the museum in the city centre of Odense, will feel the immersion in\u00a0a completely different context. Most of the exhibition is located underground, but there is a moment of connection between the underground and the outside, between two worlds as it often happens in fairy tales: a secret sunken garden at the underground exhibition\u00a0level allows the visitor\u00a0to have a visual appreciation of what is going on outside, on the above the ground\u00a0green area.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The H.C. Andersen\u2019s House of Fairy Tales in Odense\u00a9Kengo Kuma and Architects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

Above ground the program is organized\u00a0to adapt the buildings\/pavilions to the scale of the surrounding buildings; various pavilions house the Tinderbox cultural centre, the cafeteria and the foyer which integrates the\u00a0green roofs and the sloped geometries of Andersen’s\u00a0place of birth and memorial.<\/p>\n

The wooden and glazed fa\u00e7ades are a clear reference to the tradition of Danish timber construction. The wooden structures remind the\u00a0phytomorphic forms of trees branches\u00a0rising to the sky.
\nGardens, lakes and pavilions integrate\u00a0greenery and they shape a kind of labyrinth that allows visitors to immerse themselves in one of the many fairy tales of H.C. Andersen.<\/p>\n

The project was designed in collaboration with\u00a0Cornelius+V\u00f6ge\u00a0Aps<\/a> (Associate Architects), MASU Planning<\/a> (Landscape Architects) and Eduard Troelsg\u00e5rd Engineers<\/a>,it is expected to be completed in\u00a02020 and it will be KKAA\u2019s first building in Denmark.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n