Creo Arkitekter A/S

Sonorous Museum Copenhagen

Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer

SONOROUS MUSEUM COPENHAGEN

ADEPT, CREO ARKITEKTER A_S: CREO ARKITEKTER A/S

ARCHITECTS
ADEPT, CREO ARKITEKTER A_S: CREO ARKITEKTER A/S

PHOTOGRAPHS
Laura Stamer, Kaare Viemose

AREA
3500.0 m²

YEAR
2015

LOCATION
Copenhagen, Denmark

CATEGORY
Museum, Educational Architecture, Renovation

Text description provided by architect.

In the listed ’Radio House’ of Copenhagen, by renowned Danish Architect Vilhelm Lauritzen, the Danish National Museum has recently re-opened its vast collection of historical musical instruments.

Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer
Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer

The elegant modernistic building from the 1950’ies have gone through an extensive refurbishment, respectfully carried out to emphasize the unique character of the listed building’s materiality and detailing.

CREO ARKITEKTER A/S, ADEPT and NIRAS is behind concept and realization of the museum design that includes four delicately detailed sound spaces as part of the collection’s educational program.

Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer
Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer

The Radio House, including the National Music Museum and the four sound spaces ’The Sonorous Museum’, is refurbished in great respect of the original building, showing a classic approach that preserves the original design intentions, yet adding contemporary life and modernity to it.

The unique architecture of the Radio House, reflecting the spatial universe of Vilhelm Lauritzen, has been the main inspiration during the refurbishment process.

Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer
Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer

Everything, from the transparency of the exhibition design to the play of colors, patterns and rhythm in the acoustic walls of ’the Sonoruous Museum’, is a modern day interpretation of architectural elements and details from Vilhelm Lauritzen’s buildings.

The exhibition design is build up around the guest’s physical movement through musical history - a movement communicated in a delicate balance between exhibited objects and instruments.

Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer
Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer

Graphic illustrations and listening stations interacting with the museum guest. The design alternates between glass showcases making the instruments seemingly float in the air and open tableaus showing larger instruments.

’The Sonorous Museum’ is comprised of four sound regulated studios, acoustically adapted to a specific instrumental group: strings, brass, percussion and mixed instruments. The four spaces are designed as interactive classrooms in order to provide visiting school classes with a hands-on experience of.

Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer
Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer

The classical music instruments and their sound spectre. The four spaces are designed as spatial variations on the same aesthetic theme.

Each of the spaces are clad in wood veneer, designed to meet and create the optimal acoustic setting for a specific instrumental group.

From the vertical lamellae of the percussion space, the seemingly vibrating cassettes for strings to the graphical clarity of the brass space, the four spaces stands out as both contemporary modern and yet very classic in their expression - as a simple and precise continuation of the intended spirit in Vilhelm Lauritzen’s listed master piece.

Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer
Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer


Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer
Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer
Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer
Sonorous Museum Copenhagen
© Laura Stamer


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Creo Arkitekter A/S
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