Loop Architects wedges Thy National Park visitor centre into landscape
Danish agency Loop Architects has accomplished a customer centre for Thy National Park in Northern Jutland, Denmark, which has a concrete composition that is embedded in the coastal landscape.
The creating was built by Loop Architects for a website in the little coastal village of Nørre Vorupør, which is positioned at the coronary heart of the 244-sq.-kilometre park.
It is intended as a gateway attraction to inspire passersby to check out the area, which turned Denmark’s first nationwide park in 2008.
“We received the architectural level of competition in 2019 with a building that achieved the client’s ambition for a visitor centre whose architecture carefully nudges its readers to enter and investigate the park,” stated Loop Architects’ spouse Morten Nymann.
Loop Architects’ layout responds to criteria stipulated in the competitors brief that the developing should be built-in into the existing dune and heath landscape of Thy Nationwide Park.
The visitor centre features robust cast-in-situ concrete walls that arise from the dunes and funnel guests in direction of entrances from the adjacent highway and automobile park.
The landscape style by studio SLA makes it possible for site visitors to wander all over, alongside and on leading of the making, enabling them to practical experience sights about the sea, the village and the nationwide park.
Partitions that extend out from the constructing build sheltered community areas that also body sights toward the environment.
The concrete walls and pavement outside the house the constructing have a heat tone meant to reference the area sand. These surfaces proceed into the inside to increase the connection in between exterior and within.
Externally, the concrete is complemented by galvanised window frames and seating produced from sawn picket blocks that emphasise the relationship with the natural environment.
Loop Architects selected a vary of much more refined components for the building’s inside, with wooden window frames and oak doorways forming section of a neutral and pure palette.
The visitor centre’s most important house is an open central hall with entrances on two sides. A big window in the rear wall frames a check out of the North Sea and the adjacent whitewashed fishermen’s cottages.
Daylight pours into the place via the substantial opening, as well as as a result of a skylight that spans the whole width of the rear wall and illuminates a exhibit of the region’s flora and fauna.
In other places, Dorte Mandrup is also coming up with a visitor centre that is partly embedded into its coastal surroundings. Named The Whale, it will be utilised as a viewpoint for whale watching in Norway.
On the island of Serifos, Mold Architects submerged a house into a rocky hillside and incorporated big glazed openings that seem straight out to sea.
Photography is by Rasmus Hjortshøj, Coastline.