*노르웨이, 인스프리아 과학센터 [ AART architects ] Inspiria Science Centre

인스피리아 과학센터는 노르웨이를 위치적 기반으로하여 장기적 안목에서
장차 북유럽 과학분야의 커뮤니티 스페이스로 중추적 역활을 위해 계획되었다.
이번 프로젝트의 핵심주제는 환경과 에너지 그리고 건강의 주제를 담고,
이것을 형상화하는 폼을 통해 건축적메세지를 방문객들에게 전달하고자 한다.
내부에 계획된 70여개의 인터렉티브 전시관과 워크샵 그리고 천문시설은
향후 이곳을 찾는 수많은 관광객들에게 보다 넓고 깊은 과학지식을 전달하는
장소로 제안될 것이다.

3개의 리니어한 메스가 조합되어 형성되는 볼륨은 공간이 갖고 있는 메타포를
건축적 언어로 알기 쉽게 설명하고 있는 것 같다.
또한 더이상 유행이 아닌 환경과 인간사이의 간극을 좁히는
패시브건축은 우리가 지향해야할 목표로써 이 과학센터를
이루는 기본개념이 된다.
우리나라 과학센터와 비교해 보는 재미도 있을 것 같다.

reviewed by SJ

Inspiria Science Centre is designed as one of the most advanced science centres in Northern Europe and is part of a long-term plan to make knowledge the most important asset of the Østfold Region in Norway. This ambitious plan is reflected in the architectural aspiration, as the trifold form is designed as a communications platform merging the environment, energy and health.

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Architects: AART architects
Location: Sarpsborg, Norway
Experience Design: Expology
Engineer: Cowi
Electro Engineer: Yit
HWS Engineer: Multiconsult
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 6,500 sqm
Photographs: Adam Mørk

The interior program includes 70 interactive exhibitions, workshops and the most advanced planetarium in Northern Europe and Inspiria Science Centre is expected to attract more than 100,000 visitors every year, mainly school trips, families and tourists. Long- term plans to include the community will be addressed by annually offering over 40,000 students of the area a free trip to visit the venue.

A vibrant communications platform

Inspiria Science Centre combines communication and architecture into an inspiring and eventful whole, in order to provide new spaces for learning and supports the idea of sustainability as a window of opportunity to increase the quality of life between humans and the environment. Inspiria Science Centre is thus designed as a passive house in close contact with both nature and the users, as glass enclosed wings extend from the focal circular atrium creating a dynamic heart to the building.

By merging the architecture and the science centre’s focus on the environment, energy and health, Inspiria Science Centre is designed as a vibrant communications platform with a clear narrative. The narrative permeates the building design, as the trifold form symbolises nature’s cyclical repetitions and spiral forms, which blend with the technology cycle expressed in the universal power of the circular basic form. The goal has thus been to create a striking building, which in itself constitutes an identity-laden branding of Inspiria Science Centre by uniting the activities of the science centre into a single concept.

A unique fundraising process

Furthermore, Inspiria Science Centre is a unique example of how the public sector and the business community can come together and raise funds to enhance young people’s interest in science. The architecture has thus been a significant icon in the branding and fundraising process of the €28.5 million science centre. For example, the science centre has been granted €5 million in subvention from the Norwegian Government and €7 million in subvention from the business community.

Besides, the science centre has received subsidies from the government-owned corporation Enova that promotes environmentally friendly redistribution of energy consumption in the Norwegian construction sector. As Trond Giske, the Norwegian Minister of Trade and Industry, has stated, it is also quite unique that 18 municipalities have gathered so significantly and engaged themselves in the project, while the business community has granted far more funds than in usual construction projects.

from  archdaily