STATUS
IDEA
Fanø is a sandy island in the Wadden Sea off the coast of southwestern Denmark. It is known for its infinite sandy beaches and strong westerly winds. The site of Lycium, a small local museum, sits between old villas and a late 1960s prefabricated hotel on a naturally formed, waving sand dune covered with patches of lime grass.
BIG’s design for the museum is conceived as a literal cast of the dune – a human-made imprint from the natural geological sand formations.
PLACEMENT
— BIG proposes to tuck the museum under the dunes to avoid disrupting the natural surroundings.
DRAPING THE CONCRETE
— A thin layer of concrete will be draped directly over the existing dunes to recreate the natural curvature and topographical changes of the landscape.
The existing terrain is used to form the shell by casting concrete directly on the sand with all its layers including grasses, mosses, and seashells, like an amber sand dune frozen in time. Once the concrete is dry the space is excavated underneath, leaving the thin sheet of frozen beach hovering above. Like a new sand dune vernacular for Fanø, Lycium will appear as if it was always there, shaped by the winds and the water moving sand across centuries.
Annette Jensen Bjarke Ingels Celia de la Osa Muñoz David Zahle Filip Rozkowski Jakub Kulisa Ole Elkjær-Larsen Viktoria Millentrup Alessandro Zanini Andy Coward Dobrochna Anna Klimczak Federico Salmaso Geet Gawri Giedrius Mamavicius Jesper Kanstrup Petersen Lucian Mihail Racovitan Miles Treacy Nina Vuga Paul Johann Henrich Kohlhaussen Tore Banke Vladislav Saprunenko
COLLABORATORS
Dr. Lüchinger+Meyer Bauingenieure AG <br> Johansson & Kalstrup P/S
