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Bjarke Ingels certainly has a way with words when it comes to describing his design for the newly opened Tirpitz Museum.
“It’s almost compared to when you have a hot potato,” he says. “When you make a cross and you squeeze, it opens up and reveals the softness inside. That’s pretty much what’s going on here, just with culture and nature.”
He’s alluding to the entrances to the new museum, open corridors carved into a large sand dune, which meet like a cross in an open courtyard. From there, glass windows allow visitors to peek into the vast underground galleries below.
Light-hearted comparisons aside, the museum builds upon a dark historical heritage. It was constructed as an extension to the Tirpitz bunker in Bl?vand, Denmark, a former World War II fortress built by the Nazis in 1944, and abandoned, unfinished, in 1945.
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has transformed an original World War II bunker into the new Tirpitz Museum in Bl?vand, Denmark.
Rasmus Hjortshoej
The new museum is partly underground, and connects to the former Nazi bunker through subterranean corridors.
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Ingels is well known for designing several high-profile projects such as Two World Trade Center in New York and the new Google headquarters in California, in collaboration with Thomas Heatherwick.
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The Tirpitz bunker was built by the Nazis as part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall in 1944, and abandoned, unfinished, at the end of WWII.
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Ingels describes the new building as a "museum sunken in the sand."
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"It's almost compared to when you have a hot potato," says Ingels, "and you make the cross and you squeeze. It opens up and reveals the softness inside. That's pretty much what's going on here, just with culture and nature."
Rasmus Hjortshoej
"Once you enter and descend, you actually find these huge galleries that are open and airy and allow views of the sky and the sunlight."
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The new museum was inaugurated and opened to guests on the June 29, 2017.
Rasmus Hjortshoej
The galleries tell the story of the Atlantic Wall and also feature an extensive collection of amber.
Rasmus Hjortshoej
One of the galleries recounts life on the west coast of Denmark, from the Ice Age to today, through light projections.
Rasmus Hjortshoej
Another exhibition is dedicated to the enormous task of clearing the millions of mines that were left along the Danish west coast during World War II.
Rasmus Hjortshoej
"The museum is almost the landscape itself." says Ingels. "In this case literally, the dunes are the roof of the museum."
Rasmus Hjortshoej
Inside Bjarke Ingels' Tirpitz Museum in Denmark
Many crumbling bunkers still dot the coast of Denmark – a reminder of Hitler’s grand plans to build an impenetrable Atlantic Wall against his enemies, stretching from the Spanish border in France to the northern tip of Norway.
The new building is intended as a gentle counterbalance to the bunker’s grim heritage, and compliments the natural heritage of the dune landscape. The effect is a museum that “is almost the landscape itself” as Ingels describes it, partly invisible and sunken into the sand.
The museum is emblematic of Ingels’ design ethos and his ability to transform spaces and maximise their potential. Key designs by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) include a luxury penthouse block above a multi-story car park, and a waste-to-energy plant that doubles as an urban ski slope in Copenhagen.
“I think good architecture should go beyond the questions that have already been asked,” Ingels says. “It should also ask, now that we are going to move some dirt around and stack some bricks, pour some concrete, what else can we do? And I think in that sense, this sort of harmony between the sand dunes and the open space is, I think, making this little corner of Denmark a little bit more exciting than it was when we found it.”
