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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Torsby Finnskogscentrum in Värmland, Sweden by Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekterJune 14th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter Bornstein Lyckefors Architects has designed a museum and cultural center in an old school in the forest outside Torsby, Sweden. The museum pays tribute to slash-burn agriculture Finns who settled deep into the forests in the early 1600s.  The facade consists of 300 logs that has been cut down in the woods surrounding the museum. They are decorticated, untreated, cleaved in half, and mounted on a rack surrounding the building, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter
 The protruding wooden boxes work transforms the building to an urban furniture, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter A large group of Finnish immigrants settled in the border between Sweden and Norway and they lived on growing in forest soils by shifting cultivation and left behind a rich cultural heritage.  The façade timber and boxes are untreated and will age simultaneously, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter  The façade timber has been cut in the forest surrounding the building, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter has designed a new Museum in the middle of the cultural landscape. The project also includes a library and an exhibition showing the Finns building techniques and crafts, and telling about their history, traditions and folklore.  Logs cover the old school that has been painted black to appear only as a shadow behind the screen of timber, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter  The screen of timber wraps around the building with openings for entry and extra sunlight intake. Protruding wooden boxes also provides space for benches, signage and artwork, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter The building used to be a primary school and has been reconfigured for the new purpose. The architects chose to work with raw materials from the forest in the facade. “We wanted the building to communicate the Finn culture nearly as clear as an expression mark”, says Andreas Lyckefors at Bornstein Lyckefors.  The façade timber and boxes are untreated and will age simultaneously, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter  The timber is decorticated, untreated, cleaved in half, and mounted on a rack surrounding the building, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter To achieve that, the old school building was smutted black and covered with a veil of standing timber. The facade has openings for entry and extra sunlight intake. Protruding wooden boxes also provides space for benches, signage and artwork.  The interior is clad in wood and painted black with a gradient transition to resemble the smoke heated cabins the Finns used. By letting smoke pour out at the top of the ceiling the houses were kept warm leaving ash coloured traces as horizontal lines along the walls, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter  The interior is clad in wood and painted black with a gradient transition to resemble the smoke heated cabins the Finns used. By letting smoke pour out at the top of the ceiling the houses were kept warm leaving ash coloured traces as horizontal lines along the walls, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter The interior and exhibition design is an abstraction of the slash-burn agricultural landscape. On the floor is a printed carpet depicting the burned ground, the walls are covered with mirrors and laser-cut colour strips that create the effect of an infinitely large room and the exhibition stands are mounted on spring green steel racks with diagonal bracing to give associations to the first trees that grew out earth.  The exhibition is displaying the Finns building techniques and crafts, and telling about their history, traditions and folklore, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter  Stylized trees from green steel hold the exhibition, the green colour of the tree trunks are taken from small birch shot that just shoots up out of the earth. The floor is a printed carpet depicting the burned ground, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter  The fire is a central part of the exhibition, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter  Axonometric, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter  Plan, Image Courtesy © Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter
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