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EXTENSION OF THE MØNTERGÅRDEN MUSEUM - A Reinterpretation of the half-timber tradition Thesis project -ARCH Jonas Aarsø Larsen ma4-ark12 JUNE 2010 Architecture & Design Aalborg University 1 2 0.1 SYNOPSIS/TITLE PAGE Synopsis: Thesis Projet: This project focuses on reinterpretation of traditional half-timber 10th Semester 2010 buildings through a digital approach, inspired by deformations in this ARCH structural tradition. The project uses a competition brief for the new Architecture & Design extension of Møntergården Museum, Odense, as its platform for the Aalborg University development of the reinterpretation. Project Period: 01.02.2010 - 02.06.2010 Copies: 4 Pages: 127 Supervisor: Architectural: Peter Lind Bonderup Technical Consultant: Technical: Poul Henning Kirkegaard _____________________________________________ Jonas Aarsø Larsen Stud. M.Sc. Eng in Architecture 3 4 0.2 INTRODUCTION The overall theme of this thesis project is reinterpreting traditional half-timbered building tradition, focused on specifically the Danish tradition. The project has two main focuses. The first being proposing a design for the extension of the Møntergården Museum in Odense, an architectural competition that has ended, but the competition brief is used as a theoretical platform upon which to develop this project. The second focus is on materiality and how especially materiality is considered in digital contemporary architecture. Often, this type of architecture is focusing on cutting edge materials, or only on form and less on its materialization. This project combines the qualities of traditional materials and building tradition with a contemporary modern approach to architectural form development, aesthetic and production, in order to investigate how these two different periods of architecture can be united and propose a new idea for what is understood as a half-timber building. The main motivation for the project is found in how old half-timber buildings over time have been affected by natural forces that have led to various types of deformations in their structural system. These deformations often lead to a transition from a strict geometric form to areas where organic surfaces appear due to the settings in the building envelope. It is the way wood and brick start behaving in these deformed areas that inspired to the idea of developing a reinterpreta- tion based on those deformations as the generator for the architecture in this project. The project is divided into several main phases that are explained in the Readers guide, and as such these represent the way and order in which the project was developed. 5 0.3 PROGRAMME - TABLE OF CONTENTS 0.0 Introduction to Project Page 1 0.1 Synopsis/Title Page Page 3 0.2 Introduction Page 5 0.3 Table of Contents Page 6 0.4 Readers Guide/Methodology Page 8 1.00 Define -Platform Page 9 1.10 Introduction to the Competition Brief Page 10 1.11 Introduction to Site Page 11 1.12 The Vision of Møntergården Page 12 1.20 Site Analysis Page 13 1.21 Area Mapping Page 15 1.22 Architecture on Site Page 16 1.23 Existin Exhibition Spaces Page 20 1.24 Outdoor Areas Page 21 1.25 Building Guidelines Page 23 1.26 Infrastructure Page 25 1.27 Sun Conditions Page 26 1.28 Wind Conditions Page 28 1.30 Exhibition Building Room Scheme Page 29 1.31 Additional Room Scheme Page 30 1.32 Outdoor Room Scheme Page 31 1.33 Elements and Their Coherence Page 32 1.40 The Collection Page 33 1.41 Technical Requirements Page 34 1.50 Summarizing and Visioning Page 36 - Strategy Page 37 1.60 Archi-Tectonic Strategy Page 38 1.61 Reinterpretation of Tradition Page 40 1.70 History of Half-Timbered Buildings Page 41 1.71 Timber Frame Construction Page 44 1.72 Craftsmanship and Urban Legends Page 46 1.80 Transformation of Nature Page 47 1.81 Rethinking the Aesthetic/Fabrication/Production Page 48 1.82 Integrating Technical Elements Page 49 1.83 Historical Experimentation Page 54 1.84 Rethinking the Element Page 56 1.90 Summerizing and Preparing Page 59 6 2.0 Respond Page 61 3.0 Elaborate Page 100 2.00 Context Page 64 3.00 Visualization Page 101 2.01 Programmatic Proces Page 66 3.01 Completing the Block Page 102 2.02 Continuous Flow Page 67 3.02 Entrances Page 104 2.10 Form Page 69 3.03 New Recreational Space Page 106 2.11 Line Drawings For Surfaces Page 71 3.04 Light and Materials Page 107 2.12 Inclining End Wall Deformations Page 72 3.05 Section South-North Page 108 2.13 Clear Views Page 73 3.06 Section East-West Page 110 2.14 Final Design of Surfaces Page 74 3.07 Site Plan Page 111 2.20 Materialization Page 75 3.08 Ground Floor Page 112 2.21 Structural Experimentations Page 76 3.09 Second Floor Page 114 2.22 Finding a Structural Aesthetic Page 78 3.11 Materials and Their Relation Page 116 2.23 Testing the Structural System Page 79 3.12 Natural Light in Exhibition Page 117 2.24 Load Cases Page 80 3.13 Suns Path on Architecture Page 118 2.25 Stress Test on Deck_1 Page 81 3. 20 Reflcetion Page 119 2.26 Stress Test on Deck_2 Page 83 2.27 Stress Test on Facade + Roof Page 84 4.0 Appendix (CD-ROM) 2.28 Sollution to High Stress Levels Page 85 -Table of contents included on CD-ROM Page 123 2.29 Structural System Chosen Page 86 5.0 Bibliography 2.30 Vertical Facade Elements Page 88 Page 124 2.31 Complete Wood Structure Page 89 6.0 Illustration Credits 2.32 Connection_Deck Beams Page 90 Page 126 2.33 Connection_Roof Beams Page 91 2.34 From Wood To Wood Page 92 2.35 In-Between Structure Page 94 2.36 Flexible Wall System Page 95 2.37 Exhibiting on Envelope Walls Page 96 2.38 Emphasizing Wooden Elements Page 97 2.39 Artificial Light Page 98 2.40 Intended Ventilation 7 0.4 READERS GUIDE/METHODOLOGY The project is to be based on The Integrated Design Process (IDP) Respond is divided into three overall themes: Context, Form, and authored by Mary Ann Knudstrup, Aalborg University. IDP will be used Materialization. These relate to the approach and method of working as a method of the project in order to achieve the design of an inte- defined in Strategy and Respond develops the design through three, grated building. The aim of the IDP is to combine architecture, design, more or less chronological iterative processes. These three themes are functional aspects, and technical requirements. The IDP is an iterative the part of the Concept Development Phase and part of the Documen- process and will be applied during all phases of the main project. tation Phase. The Integrated Design Process consists of different phases: Elaborate is the last phase and consists of two overall phases Visualize and Reflectione. These will together present the project architecturally Problem Formulation but also put it in a reflective perspective regarding the proces and final Analysis Phase design, and as such they consist part of the Documentation Phase and Concept Development Phase the complete Presentation. Documentation Phase Presentation Phase This report is divided into three overall phases as main chapters; Define, Respond, and Elaborate. A further subdivision is then done The final project is presented in a report, drawings, 3d-visualizations, using major subchapters: Define Platform, Define Strategy, Respond and physical models. Context, Respond Form, Respond Materialization, Elaborate Visualiza- tion, and Elaborate Reflection. This results in a chronological presenta- This model has been reformulated into three main phases to be better tion of the project where the iterations are shown in their respective implemented in this project: subchapter. Define Respond Elaborate Define splits into two overall themes: Platform and Strategy. This is due to the way this project is constructed, focusing mainly on the imple- mentation of digital approaches to architecture and their capability to reinterpret tradition, thus striving at a material understanding and qual- ity. Strategy defines this intention, and Platform is the foundation that Strategy is tested on. These two themes are the Problem Formulation, Analysis Phase, and part of Concept Development Phase. ill. 1 Diagramativ illustration of The Integrated Design Process 8 DEFINE PLATFORM 9 1.10 INTRODUCTION TO COMPETITION BRIEF Møntergården is the main museum for Odense City Museum and pro- vides jobs for 85 employees working with investigation, research, pres- ervation, communication, or having technical functions and are placed primarily in the buildings towards Overgade and Claus Bergsgade. The areas of responsibilities that Odense City Museums are working with are archaeology and ancient monuments, history of Odense and Fyn, building history and topography, art and culture history, the poet H.C. Andersen, and the composer Carl Nielsen. This project has to involve the entire block defined by Overgade, Hans Mules Gade, Sortebrødre Stræde, and Claus Bergsgade. The site includes listed and worth to be preserved buildings that already serve functions related to the museum; and the new historical museum is ill. 2 Photograph of Møntestræde at Møntergården, Odense to be integrated functionally and architecturally with the existing one and is to be located in the north-eastern part of Møntergården where In 2007 Odense City Council decided that the new historical museum Sortebrødre Stræde meets Hans Mules Gade. was to be realized as an extension of the existing Møntergården The overall aim for Odense City Museum with this architecture compe- Museum. Before that, Odense City Museums, counting all together tition is to obtain proposals for: seven museums/exhibition spaces, had worked with plans on how a collected historical museum could be developed which could cover 1. Overall plan for the entire site´s future disposition and exhibit the history of the city and the region.