Danish architecture studio BIG is expanding a former Aldi supermarket in North Jutland, Denmark, to create a museum with a folded roof that emulates a sheet of paper.
Named Museum for Paper Art, the building is being developed by BIG in collaboration with psaligrapher Bit Vejle to celebrate the history of paper art in Denmark.
BIG is expanding the Museum for Paper Art in Denmark
It is set to transform the 900-square-metre former supermarket into a 2,300-square-metre museum, marked by a roof intended to evoke a sheet of folded paper that has landed on the site.
The old building, once occupied by supermarket chain Aldi, is currently home to the existing Museum for Paper Art that Vejle opened in 2018.
It will be distinguished by its sweeping roof "In collaboration with Bit, we have designed a simple concept that allows a single sheet of paper to drape over the site and the existing building," said BIG partner David Zahle.
"By treating the roof surface as such ? a single sheet of folded paper ? existing and new functions are brought together in one unifying gesture," added the studio's founder Bjarke Ingels.
"An obsolete supermarket finds new life under the floating curved roof," Ingels continued.
The roof is modelled on a "sheet of folded paper"
According to BIG, the Museum for Paper Art is "the only specialised museum for paper fine crafts and design in the Nordics".
Its expansion is projected to double the annual number of vi...