CULTURAL HERITAGE
DE FEM HALD’ER
Type
1st prize, invited competition
Team
ERIK BRANDT DAM arkitekter (lead consultant), Cornelius Vöge, Charlotte Skibsted Landskab, MOE Rådgivende Ingeniører, Martin Zerlang
Size
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Client
Naturstyrelsen, Slots- og kulturstyrelsen, Foreningen "De fem hald'er" and Viborg Kommune
Status
Built
Hald is the common term for one of Denmark’s largest castle complexes. It consists of five castle installations. A walk between these leads through more than 800 years of history, from the Middle Ages to today and tomorrow.
The overall plan is designed as an architecturally processed whole, creating coherence between physical traces of buildings and facilities that have succeeded one another over the centuries, so that these are evident to the visitor. The plan conveys the interplay between cultural landscape, building traces, and materials.
DOUBLE DRAWBRIDGE
Access to the area with Hald Castle and the tower has been established by a double ‘wind bridge’. Here, based on the footprints of previous buildings, plinths made of oak have been laid out where visitors can rest and gather. The existing tower ruin has been extended with an open construction in heavy oak timber, which maintains the external and internal forms and geometry of the tower.
NEW FEATURES EMPHASIZES NON-FINALITY
By incorporating the new features as an addition to the existing historical trails and lines in the landscape, a connection to the site arises along with an abstract narrative that emphasizes the non-finality – that the last stone has not yet been turned at Hald.
Literature:
Arkitekten nr. 01, februar 2023, vol. 125
Arkitekten nr. 05, juni 2022, vol. 124
Awards:
Viborg Kommunes Arkitekturpris 2022
Photo: Søren Harder Nielsen
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