Elding Oscarson creates "slightly bent" weathering steel extension to Lund's Skissernas Museum
Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has added a Corten steel extension to the Skissernas Museum in Lund, Sweden, designed to open the building up to the adjacent sculpture park.
Founded in 1934, the Skissernas Museum is part of Lund University and houses the world's largest archive of works documenting the artistic process.
The Lund-based museum is made up of a large cluster of connected buildings from six different periods, but the new Elding Oscarson extension is the first to solely address the building's public interface.
The extension creates a new facade towards the museum's sculpture park, with a new entrance, museum shop and restaurant to welcome visitors.
The new entrance replaces the original foyer space built in 1959 by architect Hans Westman, which is now a shop and reception area instead.
The design team chose to clad the entire extension in Corten ? the most common brand of weathering steel, which features a rusty texture. They believed it would complement the adjacent historic red brick architecture as well as the rough materiality of the museum's concrete walls.
Extending out at an angle from the old building, the new volumes are punctuated by large square windows of varying sizes, carefully placed to frame views from, into, and through the interiors.
"The new addition of slightly bent volumes is projecting itself into the existing sculpture park, releasing its grip of the street grid and instead latching on to the diagonal approach thro...
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