Geology Museum and Visitors Centre - DENMARK

NAME: Geology Museum and Visitors Centre
COLLABORATORS: Plot & JDS
LOCATION: Mon's Cliff, Denmark
http://www.big.dk/projects/mon/mon.html

The idea behind the museum was to create a visitors centre that was about exposing a living landmark in Denmark, the Møn's Cliff. The challenge was to create this centre which focuses and exposes the landmark without spoiling the impression of the actual landmark.

Within the museum they designed a visitor centre that 'literally digs into the fascinating geological history hidden in one of Denmark's essential landmarks'. They organised the 'exhibition space as an archaeological excavation stacked in a crater of chalk', which 'offers rich experiences of evolution and at the same time leaves the outstanding landscape undisturbed.' This causes the Museum of Geology to actually grow 'into the different layers of geological eras and provides visitors with a rare look into the shaping of planet earth.'

I feel that this building is quite significant as it dynamically expresses the site on which it would've been built. The way in which the building relates to the site is quite amazing and I really like the idea of it 'growing' into the various layers of the geological eras, as this has a direct relationship with it being a Museum of Geology. I think that it could be created quite effectively in CryEngine 2 and it would be especially interesting to see how it relates and responds to the site. I have found quite a few detailed images showing the interior and exterior layout of the building as well as the location and how it responds to the site.

I feel that because as a team we have decided that it would be quite interesting to explore the circulation within our chosen building that this piece of architecture would be a great piece to use for our 'Collaborative Fabrication'. I feel that it presents a unique and interesting design layout and interior / exterior circulation which could be explored to see how functional it circulation is.