Structure of 'tree-lined' columns in the new Museum of Forest Finn Culture, in Svullrya (Norway).
Based in Copenhagen, the Lipinski Lasovsky Johansson (llja) studio has just won, with its Finnskogens Hus project, the competition to build the new Museum of Forest Finn Culture, in Svullrya (Norway).
In the winning proposal –which surpassed the more than 200 submitted by architecture studios from around the world– “Wood is a key element. It is present both in the structural elements and in the interior spaces”, tells us the Czech architect Juráš Lasovský, partner and founder of llja together with the Swedes Filip Lipinski and Hanna Johansson.
This is because the studio seeks to integrate the museum naturally into its future surroundings, amongst the trees of the Forest Finn and, at the same time, relate it effectively to the history and culture of those Finns who migrated to the forested regions of central Sweden and eastern Norway at the end of the 16th century –and which gave the region its name–.
Hanna Johansson, Jur Lasovský and Filip Lipinski, architects and partners of the Copenhagen-based studio llja.
The museum is surrounded by ‘tree trunks’: wooden columns that form a forest around the building. Some of them are structural and, as a whole, they create a transition between the building and the depth of the forest that surrounds it”, describes Juráš Lasovský, who also explains how the interior wood creates a warm, comfortable environment wrapped in a pleasant aroma. natural.
In addition, the new Museum of Forest Finn Culture will create a new educational framework to present the rich history of this forest, that of the Finns. Thus, the Finnskogens Hus project reinterprets several traditions from the neighboring country, as the Czech architect recalls: "In the interior spaces, the burned wood tells the story of the felling and burning of branches to grow food (a technique practiced by those Finns that consisted of sowing grain on ashes) and also recalls their old smoke cabins (saunas).
Wood will be the protagonist of the new Museum of Forest Finn Culture.
On this bold, light and suggestive project, "that evokes curiosity and draws visitors to interact with the building and the surrounding landscape", in the words of the architects of Lipinski Lasovsky Johansson, the jury of the Norwegian Architectural Competitions concluded unanimously: “The authors show in the preliminary competition a convincing experience both in terms of the situation and the project itself (…) They are based on the landscape and the location of the museum in Finnskogen (…) The forest is interpreted and concretized, and a unifying roof is placed on the museum. They have used the idea of the forest in a poetic and compelling way.”
Inside the museum, wood will provide warmth and that comfortable, unmistakable aroma.