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Contemporary Now: CPH Floating Kunsthal

Completion: Winter 2010 
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark 
Project Advisor: Michael Cederfeld
 
The city of Copenhagen has long been renowned as a cozy Scandanavian capital. Through the intervention of a wide variety of art collections and museum spaces it has earned its name to a cool metropolitan city with a strong emphasis on art culture.
 
Public spaces within Copenhagen are also one of the most famous in Scandanavia. Outdoor cafe seating mixed with public plazas are most popular in the summer time and provides a dynamic social aspect to everyday life that many cities cannot afford at the moment.
 
What if we can bring these two very distinct but popular aspects of Copenhagen together? Since both are interesting and healthy ways in which one can live the city to the fullest. I start to envision a new way in which a museum can provide for the people of the city, to generate a new awareness that previous art spaces did not emphasize. By using architecture as a medium to reinforce the conventional museum experience with the contemporary, we now can allow for a more dynamic museum experience.

Divide site into 3 zones, 'Looking In', 'Looking Back', and 'Looking Out'
Lift 'looking out' to allow pedestrian flow, simultaneously making 'looking back' stair seating
'Looking Out' becomes cafe with a view to Tivoli Gardens, and 'Looking In' is stacked with museum spaces cascading backwards, eliminating direct sun.
Contemporary Now: CPH Floating Kunsthal
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