NO.161
Kannikegården / Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects
WORSHIP
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RIBE, DENMARK
• Architects: Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects
• Area: 998 m²
• Type: Parish house, Exhibition room
• Client: Ribe Domsogns Menighedsråd
• Manufacturers: Hørning, Petersen Tegl
• Landscape Architect :Schønherr A/S
• Construction Manager And Engineering :Oesten ingeniører og arkitekter Aps
• Year: Built 2014-2016
• Awards and nominations: 2017 Mies van der Rohe Award, top-5 finalist
Kannikegården, an award-winning new-build priory by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects, is lo-cated in Denmark’s oldest existing town, Ribe, which was founded in the eighth century. The project sits in the public square which surrounds Ribe Cathedral, a beautiful and somewhat frankensteinian collage of architectural styles shaped by the building’s repeated restoration and redecoration across the centuries.
In 2000, a former commercial building across from the cathedral burned down and the local parochial church council decided to commission a cathedral priory in its place. Archaeologists later discovered the oldest Christian graves in Denmark and remnants of a brick refectory din-ing hall from the 12th century some 2.5m beneath the remains of the burnt building. When the competition brief was released, it stipulated that the ancient ruins were to be integrated into the new scheme. The name ‘Kannikegården’ is from the Latin ‘canonicus’, or priest of the cove-nant in a Catholic or Anglican Cathedral, in reference to the priests’ dining hall which was dis-covered on the site.
Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects’ winning proposal lifts the priory program above the ruins to create a publically accessible glazed exhibition space below. Centrally pivoting thick oak planks, which can be rotated by hand, filter the light which enters the exhibition space. Steel suspended walkways enable visitors to trace the walls of the ancient ruins, whilst tightly spaced roughly hewn oak beams form the lamella ceiling above.
A homogenous gabled roof structure, wrapped in clay tiles, rests above the ruins on rough, board-formed concrete columns. The 63cm x 35cm by 3cm thick clay shingles overlap like fish scales to form the building’s shell and square window frames. The gutter is hidden behind the clay facade and held in place with thick bent steel clamps, reminiscent of ship construction. On the southern side of the exhibition space, a walled courtyard is created which is concealed from the public square.
Kannikegården subtly pays homage to the site’s rich history through its archetypal form, rug-ged details and brownish-red hues reminiscent of the region’s characteristic brick houses. This is juxtaposed to the building’s crisp metal verge and ridge line which exhibits a a contemporary architectural language. The building has been well received and was a finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2017.
Kannikegården / Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects
WORSHIP
•
RIBE, DENMARK
• Architects: Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects
• Area: 998 m²
• Type: Parish house, Exhibition room
• Client: Ribe Domsogns Menighedsråd
• Manufacturers: Hørning, Petersen Tegl
• Landscape Architect :Schønherr A/S
• Construction Manager And Engineering :Oesten ingeniører og arkitekter Aps
• Year: Built 2014-2016
• Awards and nominations: 2017 Mies van der Rohe Award, top-5 finalist
Kannikegården, an award-winning new-build priory by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects, is lo-cated in Denmark’s oldest existing town, Ribe, which was founded in the eighth century. The project sits in the public square which surrounds Ribe Cathedral, a beautiful and somewhat frankensteinian collage of architectural styles shaped by the building’s repeated restoration and redecoration across the centuries.
In 2000, a former commercial building across from the cathedral burned down and the local parochial church council decided to commission a cathedral priory in its place. Archaeologists later discovered the oldest Christian graves in Denmark and remnants of a brick refectory din-ing hall from the 12th century some 2.5m beneath the remains of the burnt building. When the competition brief was released, it stipulated that the ancient ruins were to be integrated into the new scheme. The name ‘Kannikegården’ is from the Latin ‘canonicus’, or priest of the cove-nant in a Catholic or Anglican Cathedral, in reference to the priests’ dining hall which was dis-covered on the site.
Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects’ winning proposal lifts the priory program above the ruins to create a publically accessible glazed exhibition space below. Centrally pivoting thick oak planks, which can be rotated by hand, filter the light which enters the exhibition space. Steel suspended walkways enable visitors to trace the walls of the ancient ruins, whilst tightly spaced roughly hewn oak beams form the lamella ceiling above.
A homogenous gabled roof structure, wrapped in clay tiles, rests above the ruins on rough, board-formed concrete columns. The 63cm x 35cm by 3cm thick clay shingles overlap like fish scales to form the building’s shell and square window frames. The gutter is hidden behind the clay facade and held in place with thick bent steel clamps, reminiscent of ship construction. On the southern side of the exhibition space, a walled courtyard is created which is concealed from the public square.
Kannikegården subtly pays homage to the site’s rich history through its archetypal form, rug-ged details and brownish-red hues reminiscent of the region’s characteristic brick houses. This is juxtaposed to the building’s crisp metal verge and ridge line which exhibits a a contemporary architectural language. The building has been well received and was a finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2017.
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A special challenge with the task has been that ancient monuments have been found on the building site that give a story about Denmark's history through a thousand years. Most visible is a protected brick ruin of the canons' monastery from the 12th century, which is integrated into an exhibition space to convey the site's many cultural-historical layers.
The building consists of a single, elongated volume with a saddle roof that stands on pillars above the protected archaeological finds. The length of the building is along the square with a scale and roof slope that follows the neighboring buildings on the square. The archetypal building form has a sculptural skew to the south, to create more light and air towards the neighboring buildings in the courtyard.
To the south is an intimate courtyard, bounded by a wall that frames the street spaces along Sønderportsgade and Rykind.
The upper part of the building is clad with specially developed brick shells in reddish-brown hues, related to the town and the area's typical, brick houses, but by virtue of the larger format of the shells in a contemporary interpretation. The lower part has glass facades, which protect the ruin and at the same time expose the unique finds.
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A special challenge with the task has been that ancient monuments have been found on the building site that give a story about Denmark's history through a thousand years. Most visible is a protected brick ruin of the canons' monastery from the 12th century, which is integrated into an exhibition space to convey the site's many cultural-historical layers.
The building consists of a single, elongated volume with a saddle roof that stands on pillars above the protected archaeological finds. The length of the building is along the square with a scale and roof slope that follows the neighboring buildings on the square. The archetypal building form has a sculptural skew to the south, to create more light and air towards the neighboring buildings in the courtyard.
To the south is an intimate courtyard, bounded by a wall that frames the street spaces along Sønderportsgade and Rykind.
The upper part of the building is clad with specially developed brick shells in reddish-brown hues, related to the town and the area's typical, brick houses, but by virtue of the larger format of the shells in a contemporary interpretation. The lower part has glass facades, which protect the ruin and at the same time expose the unique finds.
#Denmark, #cathedrale, #square, #fire , #ruin , #public_space , #office , #lighting
@revitalization