Exercise 1

Design a museum exhibition room and store

Participants are put into groups of four or five people, of mixed specialities. Each group imagines itself to be the design team for a local museum of cultural history located somewhere exotic.

You will be supplied with meteorological data for the location and a psychrometric chart.

There are no financial restrictions to your proposal but you must take into consideration the available local characteristics and resources: climate, materials and human skills.

You must agree a climate specification for the exhibition room and for the storage area and then propose low energy ways of achieving this. Pest control and air pollution control are also relevant matters.

The exhibition and storage should be 1000 m² each, on one level with about 5 m ceiling height. Don't go into elaborate detail about facilities for conservation or personnel, but do take into consideration the handling and transport of objects.

The result of your collaboration will be a sketch of the building and a description of the climate control system and building materials. Each group should prepare an oral presentation to the whole class, and a report for the wiki - which will become a souvenir of your participation.

Exercise 2

A new building for the ‘Museum of agriculture’ at the Open Air Museum in Sorgenfri

The open Air museum has a large collection of artifacts which are not on display. Some of it is stored in the old Museum for agriculture located opposite the main entrance of the open air museum. This building now serves as a store, but the conditions are not very satisfactory. The job is to design a new building for this collection.

The collection has many different objects and materials. Small items for household purposes are mainly of wood, ceramics or metals. Large items like machines for harvesting have modern materials like plastic and rubber. You must determine the appropriate climatic conditions for each part of the collection.

The museum will have three main sections: One section for large items like harvest machines and tractors (1000 m2). One section for display of small items (500 m2) and one section for temporary exhibitions (500 m2). The individual sections must be accessed from a common entrance hall. You should present a basic design of an energy efficient museum building.

You must choose the materials best suited for the building and suggest a construction which gives some passive climate control. You must also suggest which mechanical devices may be needed as a supplement, and how they will be powered. How will you ensure a good air quality for all collections?

The new museum will be located at a vacant site at the north entrance to the open air museum. The site is approximately 6.000 m2. There will be parking space and access from the north. The site is a part of the Millstream-valley, which is a historic area with early industrial settlement. The building is located between a residential area and the old farm Fjellerup Řstergârd in the open air museum. You must consider how one can best adapt such a large building to fit into this environment.

Photo of the site marked in blue.

Site plan

You will work in groups of 4 persons. There will be an oral presentation of the projects on Friday. You must also submit your project as a pdf. All projects will be uploaded on the web site.

Reports

Group B (pdf, 300 kb)

Group C (pdf, 3.4 Mb)

Group G (pdf, 500 kb)

Group G - Canberra (pdf, 650 kb)