Offener Wettbewerb (auch für Studenten) | 12/2019
Iceland Volcano Museum
©Balint Iszak & Csenge Gyorgyi
The Windows of Hverfjall
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Architektur
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'The Windows of Hverfjall' describes in its text proposition the experiential entry sequence of the visitor. While the building is an exhibition space, it also serves as a landing point for the region's many trekkers. It is square in plan and divided into three parts: for reception, exhibition, and offices. The building is low and horizontal in profile with a planted roof and accentuated with a fine steel edge profile. This horizontality is well-balanced by a series of vertical light wells clad in weathered steel. The finish floor of the entire structure is cleverly sunken four feet below the exterior ground plane; this serves the dual function of allowing the sightline of the arriving visitor to be set above the roof plane for direct views of the volcano beyond, as well as endowing inhabitants with the sense of being partially submerged within the ground. The drawings and imagery of this proposition are advanced and beautiful, with a great sense of balance.
©Balint Iszak & Csenge Gyorgyi
©Balint Iszak & Csenge Gyorgyi
©Balint Iszak & Csenge Gyorgyi
©Balint Iszak & Csenge Gyorgyi
©Balint Iszak & Csenge Gyorgyi
©Balint Iszak & Csenge Gyorgyi
©Balint Iszak & Csenge Gyorgyi