LIGHT + TECH 101 101
THE AROS art museum, located in Denmark’s second city, Aarhus, thinks big when it comes to commissioned art installations. Olafur Eliasson’s Your Rainbow Panorama (2011), the 150m circular, multi-coloured walkway that crowns the building and offers 360° tinted views across the city, not only afirmed its ambitions but firmly stamped it on the international art map. A new, equally ambitious and much-anticipated project will also centre on light art as architectural feature.
This year will see the opening of its long-awaited 4,000m2
subterranean
extension by Schmidt Hammer Lassen (SHL), architect of the ten-storey building that became the new home of the 1859
museum in 2004. Known as the Next Level, its centrepiece will be The Dome, developed with renowned US artist James Turrell, leading figure of the 1960s Light and Space movement, and particularly known for his immersive Skyspaces, some 85 to date, of varying scale. His most renowned project and largest Skyspace is the ongoing (since 1977) conversion of the Roden Crater in Arizona into a vast ‘gateway to the contemplation of light, time and landscape’. The Dome at ARoS will be the second largest overall, and the largest Skyspace in the world in a museum context.
Under development for more than ten years, the extension from the beginning
involved a vision of adding a new artwork to the ARoS collection by an artist working in large scale to create unique environments. The museum has described it as ‘a once-in-a-generation transformation to emerge as one of the most innovative institutions in which to engage with transformative art experiences at scale’. At 40m in diameter and 16m high ‘it will form one of the most spectacular spaces ever built into an art museum’, says SHL. The dome shape is formed using 30 enormous fibreglass panels, each 21m long and weighing 1,100kg. The panels will be sprinkled with 40cm of concrete and soil, with Turrell completing the work with his characteristic light installations inside the dome.
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