Category: Kvorning Design & Communication

26
Jun
2018

Deichmanske library

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CLIENT: OSLO MUNICIPALITY
PROJECT: CONCEPT TOOLBOX TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
LOCATION: OSLO, NORWAY
In an international invited competition Kvorning Design & Communication were selected to develop the exhibition concept for the new Public Library in Oslo, Norway.
Deichmanske opens in 2018 and resides between two of the city’s prominent landmarks: The Oslo Opera by Snohetta and the central station.
With a total area of 10,000 m2, the library will become one of the most modern libraries in Europe and have more than 2 million visitors annually.
26
Jun
2018

The Wave

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CLIENT: THE FISHERIES AND HARBOUR CENTRE
PROJECT: CONCEPT ACTIVITY AND FACILITATION CENTRE
PLACE: HUNDESTED, DANMARK
Kvorning collaborated with the Fisheries and Harbour Centre in Hundested on its plans for an activity and facilitation centre that will convey Hundested’s maritime cultural heritage and natural amenities.
The centre is being built from six containers, assembled into one large space. It will be surrounded on two sides by a wave of larch wood, which will eventually be weathered by the elements and the sea.
”It will give a raw look, and the containers belong in the harbour, so it’s thematically sound,” states Finn Nyhuus, chairman of the Fisheries and Harbour Centre.
26
Jun
2018

Al Murjan Library Café

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CLIENT: QATAR MUSEUMS
PROJECT: CONCEPT AL MURJAN LIBRARY CAFE
LOCATION: DOHA, QATAR
Along with Qatar Vision Projects, Kvorning competed for a design and development contract for Al Murjan Library Café located on the beach close to Doha, Qatar.
The project for Qatar Museums combines traditional local architecture with traditional and modern Nordic interior design.
26
Jun
2018

Dunkers Kulturhus

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CLIENT: HELSINGBORG MUNICIPALITY
PROJECT: PERMANENT EXHIBITION
LOCATION: HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN
Kvorning Design & Communication won the Swedish Dunkers Kulturhus’s local-history exhibition På Gränsen in international competition in 2011. På Gränsen is a permanent exhibition about what makes a person a person and Helsingborg Helsingborg, with lots of exciting local features, stories and events.
The person is central to the exhibition, and so too the border perspective – geographically, politically, morally, humanly. The exhibition encourages visitors to transcend borders, both externally and internally within themselves, and it attempts to explain what history really is – and who makes it.
Is it the visitor him/herself? Is it the exhibition venue? Or something entirely different? Dunkers Kulturhus houses more than 3,000 sq.m of exhibition space, opening some 10 new high-grade international exhibitions every year.
25
Jun
2018

Vagonetto Fokis Mining Park

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CLIENT: VAGONETTO FOKIS MINING PARK
PROJECT: CONCEPT BRAND EXPERIENCE
LOCATION: DELPHI, GREECE
Kvorning Design & Communication goes underground in Delphi in Greece.
Kvorning was agreed to undertake the Brand Experience concept for the Vagonetto Fokis Mining Park project.
A concept for new exhibitions underground and above at Greece’s largest bauxite mine located close to Delphi.
24
Jun
2018

The Green Box

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CLIENT: ODENSE MUNICIPALITY
PROJECT: THE GREEN BOX
LOCATION: ODENSE, DENMARK
The Green Box, an interactive exhibition presenting 100 cool vocational training programmes available for students in Odense, Denmark, is a huge success. Especially among 7th graders.
Jørgen B. Jensen, Education Advisor at Odense Municipality says – “The Green Box has evoked a lot of enthusiasm among students as well as teachers. Combining analogue and digital features is ingenious because it reflects the reality of the vocational education programmes”.
Odense municipality operates The Green Box, which was developed in liason with Kold College, Syddansk Erhvervsskole and Social- og Sundhedsskolen Fyn og Tietgen. Kvorning Design & Communication has designed exhibitions, animated movies, interactive design, lighting and more. Photo: Praxis

 

 

15
Jun
2018

Danish Railway Museum – Compartment of Dreams

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CLIENT: THE DANISH RAILWAY MUSEUM
PROJECT: TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
LOCATION: ODENSE, DENMARK
The temporary exhibition, Compartment of Dreams, at The Danish Railway Museum exploring the Danes’ train journeys abroad is designed by Kvorning Design & Communication. The exhibition features both journeys in luxurious blue Wagons-Lits carriages destined for iconic destinations and the haphazardly Interrail journeys in the worn-down, red carriages of DSB. The two different ways of travel were both offered by Danish travel agencies in the beginning of the 1970’ies.
The Compartment of Dreams is a poetic exhibition which aims to make the visitors dream themselves; to put the everyday hassle behind and indulge themselves for a short moment. Hence, the exhibition space is structured like a train journey; before, under and after – the preparations with the travel agency, travel packing checklists and foreign currencies, the compartments, meals and dreams and finally arriving at Gare du Nord and the city of cities: Paris.
To ensure top-class experiences, the artefacts of the exhibition have been carefully selected and have been limited to an absolute minimum. Aiming to capture the essence and the mood of the journeys and, at the same time, provide a calm and spacious setting that stimulates contemplation. Uniform backgrounds streamline the expression and secures a consistent context across the setting while interactive and analogue features complement each other across the exhibition.

 

15
Jun
2018

Brorfelde Observatory

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CLIENT: HOLBÆK MUNICIPALITY
PROJECT: BRINGING TO LIFE, STORYTELLING
LOCATION: BRORFELDE, DENMARK
Brorfelde Observatory has been re-lauched as a discovery centre focusing on astronomy, geology, technology and nature.

Going into the observatory is like entering a time warp. Buildings as well as the exterior remain nearly untouched and present themselves as they were when The University of Copenhagen established the facility in 1953-64.

Kvorning Design & Communication has taken part in making the beautiful buildings come alive and in the presentation of central, authentic stories of the observatory.

15
Jun
2018

Danfoss Museum – Mads and his dreams

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CLIENT: DANFOSS MUSEUM
PROJECT: BRAND EXPERIENCE CONCEPT, DESIGN, PRODUCTION
LOCATION: NORDBORG, DENMARK
Kvorning is responsible for the concept, design and production of the Danfoss Museum’s new Brand Experience, Mads and his dreams, about the founder, Mads Clausen (1905-1966). Set on his native farm in Als, the experience takes its cue from Mads’s ability to dream throughout his life. From pure imagination and fervent desire during his boyhood, through inspiration and creativity in his youth, to concrete goals for the future during adulthood.

Mads and his dreams brings to life the tale of a person who is capable of dreaming, setting himself goals and accomplishing them. A narrative device with conscious dramatic art, light, sound and projections. The rooms of the farm create filmic backdrops to the anecdotes. A poetic and unconstrained layer that underpins the narrative.

Displays operate on sight-lines and axes, positioning central experiences and points de vues at the end of them, with one room thereby introducing the next. In parallel with Mads’s life story and Danfoss’s development, the rooms and the stories unfurl – ups and downs – joys and sorrows.

 

15
Jun
2018

HARTEVÆRKET VISITOR CENTRE

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CLIENT: KOLDING MUNICIPALITY
PROJECT: EXHIBITION CONCEPT, DESIGN MANUAL, SIGNAGE AND DISSEMINATION CONCEPT
LOCATION: KOLDING, DENMARK
Kvorning Design & Communication provided the exhibition concept, design manual, signage and dissemination concept for Harteværket Visitorcentre, once Denmark’s biggest hydropower plant – today Kolding’s cultural heritage and family attraction.

Both concepts and materials were developed in close collaboration with the staff and management at Harteværket, as well as NIRAS and Baumann Boe-Whitehorn Arkitekter.

Still producing electricity, Harteværket is indeed an authentic setting. In the magnificent old turbine hall and the fascinating basement with its huge, red pipes, both grownups and kids can observe how water is turned into electricity. The centre also features a water playground.

15
Jun
2018

Grimstad bys museer

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CLIENT: GRIMSTAD BYS MUSEER
PROJECT: PERMANENT EXHIBITION
LOCATION: GRIMSTAD, NORWAY
In international competition The Museum Foundation of Grimstad in Southern Norway chose Kvorning design & communication to create a permanent exhibition about fellow townsman Morten Smith Petersen (1817-1872) – one of the first and most influential Norwegian ship-owners, who also practiced law and politics.

Kvorning Design & Communication designed the exhibition about Morten Smith Petersen’s significant influence on local, national and international matters. The setting being Hasseldalen in Grimstad, which Smith Petersen bought in 1848. Here, his ships were crafted and he built his shipping business.

As a ship-owner and businessman Smith Petersen was a keen advocate of modernizing and professionalizing the Norwegian shipping trade and as a politician he believed strongly in free trade and the “autonomy of the shipping companies”. Smith Petersen was also co-founder of Det norske Veritas in 1864.

15
Jun
2018

Creative Expo Taiwan

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CLIENT: DESIGN DENMARK
PROJECT: TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
LOCATION: TAIPEI, TAIWAN
Along with the UK and Japan, Denmark was invited to exhibit selected design items at the biennale Creative Expo Taiwan.

In the beautiful setting of Taipei the three countries had their own exhibition space in which they presented major designs which have inspired and still inspire domestic as well as international audiences.

Design denmark, Kvorning, Thomas Dickson, Pil Bredahl and Troels Seidenfaden formed the exhibition of contemporary and classic Danish design masterpieces, REFLECTIONS of Danish design.

14
Jun
2018

Alta Museum

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CLIENT: ALTA MUSEUM
PROJECT: PERMANENT EXHIBITION
LOCATION: ALTA, NORWAY
Kvorning has masterminded the World Heritage Rock Art Centre – Alta Museum’s 150 sq.m exhibition, Traces in Stone, about Alta’s world heritage, rock art, which opened in Norway. A modern, interactive exhibition about the rock art of Alta including UNESCO-protected rock carvings and rock paintings made approximately 7,000 to 2,000 years ago. Alta has Northern Europe’s largest occurrence of rock art from the hunter-gatherer society. It constitutes the most important evidence of settlements and human activity so far north during prehistoric times. And as a result it was added to UNESCO’s world heritage list in 1985.

The permanent exhibition offers plenty of interaction and entertainment for everyone. Here, for example, visitors young and old can sculpt out a rock carving, go exploring in the history of Alta in the Landscape Game and generate luminescent rock carvings in the dark by lamplight. Trace in Stone offers experiences and activities that will wow, inform, generate debate and provide food for thought. The exhibition also includes a selfie booth with Northern Lights, buttons and infographics that conjure up and animate the magic of the spirit world of the past.

“With Trace in Stone we invite the public to enjoy experiences, participation and exploration, while at the same time encouraging their curiosity and engagement. The exhibition provides an altogether different experience to previous exhibitions, and visitors will learn about rock art by using both their hands and their heads. The museum has been working on the exhibition for many years, and we are extremely proud that we can now show it off to both the local population and all our visitors,” states Harriet Hagan, Manager of the World Heritage Rock Art Centre at Alta Museum.

 

09
Apr
2018

The Coastal Museum in Sør-Trøndelag

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CLIENT: THE COASTAL MUSEUM IN SØR-TRØNDELAG
PROJECT: CONCEPT, PERMANENT EXHIBITION
LOCATION: HITRA, NORWAY
Kvorning Design & Communication and the Norwegian Vindfang have won the competition for an exhibition concept about Norway’s second-largest export business, the aquaculture industry, for the Coastal Museum under the museum complex at Sør-Trøndelag in Norway. ’The Pioneers’ takes as its inspiration the tales of the initiative-takers ’from the fish-farming heartland’. Who were they? What did they think? How did they advance by trial and error? What proved successful? And what did they learn?

At Hitra, on an island just off Trondheim, it’s all about salmon. Here, fish eggs are fertilized, matured and hatched in fresh water. Here young salmonids grow to full size in the floating fish-rearing cages of the sea. And here at the Coastal Museum’s Sandstad Department they are harvested. So this is the obvious location to convey the history of the Norwegian fish-farming industry, and to let 24 pioneers tell you about their contribution to the development of Norway’s second-largest export trade.

Kvorning and Vindfang’s concept conveys Norwegian fish-farming history from 1970 to the present day through three major narratives: The local history, with animation of Hitra and the area; the national history of the pioneers along the coast from Finnmark to Vestfold, and the history of the salmon and the industry as a reworked 360-degree show with moving pictures and natural sounds in Aegir’s Hall: the octagonal cinema. Silhouettes of the pioneers reflect the dynamics. Past and present.

31
Oct
2017

LEGO House – History Collection

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CLIENT: LEGO® HOUSE
PROJECT: BRAND EXPERIENCE
LOCATION: BILLUND, DENMARK
In a continuous, close collaboration with the LEGO Group’s employees within the historic branch, Kvorning Design and Communication has designed and developed the permanent exhibition for the History Collection in the base of the LEGO House; the 12,000 square metre Brand Experience in Billund, Denmark.

As grown-ups and kids head down the stairs, or descend by the elevator, into the basement and the History Collection, they are welcomed by a 2 x 2 metre logotype. Here they explore their own childhood through the gems of the exhibition: LEGO products conveying the company’s long history though significant milestones, drawings and models. Everything a true Lego fan could possibly imagine. Also animations of kids playing in classic scenarios.

Halfway through the collection visitors will see a light which lures them into a room resembling the interior of a giant LEGO brick. An exhibition of original LEGO models and boxes through decades. Anyone can find a cherished LEGO box, either as a physical model or on the interactive table displaying more than 5,000 LEGO boxes. In big round showcases and along the walls are hundreds of original models and boxes on display to stir dear memories.

 

 

26
Jun
2017

Norwegian Petroleum Museum – Deep Secrets

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CLIENT: NORWEGIAN PETROLEUM MUSEUM
PROJECT: PERMANENT EXHIBITION
LOCATION: STAVANGER, NORWAY
The Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger and Kvorning launched a new exhibition, Deep Secrets, about petroleum geology. The concept features a distinctive key idea accompanied by stunningly grand visual effects and offer facts and knowledge in a pioneering form.

Deep Secrets is pure Jules Vernes! Exploration, activities and drama, lots of challenges for hearts and minds, analogue and digital attractions which stimulate collaboration, learning and play, the exhibition appeals to 12-year olds – and thus involves entire families.

The permanent exhibition was won in invited competition.

 

 

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