A key element in a series of ongoing transformations at the museum, Boxen is a platform for fast-changing and experimental exhibitions.
Boxen provides space for alternative voices to inspire discussions about architecture, design, and their relationship to society.
Dehlin Brattgård Arkitekter have designed a structure that, through its architecture, creates a transformative experience both inside and around it. Steel, birch plywood, and wire mesh combine to create two distinct exhibitable environments: an interior white-box and a circulatory ramp, encouraging multiple views and perspectives between both visitors and the ideas on display. Boxen’s bold graphic design has been created by Studio Reko.
Architects:Dehlin Brattgård Arkitekter Structural Engineers: DIFK AS / Florian Kosche Steel Construction: Promostal Building: Eckerud EQT Light Installation: El och scenteknik – Anders Bill Time lapse: Mats Eriksson Photography: Johan Dehlin Graphic Identity:Studio Reko
In the final months of 2017 ArkDes held an anonymous invited competition (parallel assessment) to find proposals for a new studio gallery to inhabit one of the museum’s two large exhibition halls.
The invited offices represent a new wave of young, innovative architectural offices with a pronounced international profile. Christin Svensson Architecture and Krupinski Krupinska Arkitekter competed against Dehlin Brattgård Arkitekter, who won the competition with their proposal A Room With a View.
The jury comprised Pye Aurell Ehrström (Marge Architects), Kieran Long (Director of ArkDes), and Sandra Nolgren (Head of Communications, ArkDes). They described “the industrial character of the proposal” as a unique new element in the 19th Century Exercise Hall, “revolving around ArkDes’ new focus as an arena in which a more traditional discussion of architecture and design can interact with new fields.”
Competition Proposal. Dehlin Brattgård Arkitekter.
Competition Proposal. Dehlin Brattgård Arkitekter.