Snøhetta has unveiled its plan to redesign and extend the museum dedicated to Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo.
The expansion will see a large wood-clad auditorium that is angled towards the sky added to the Kon-Tiki Museum, which houses vessels and artefacts used by Heyerdahl during his nautical expeditions.
Top: Snøhetta's Kon-Tiki Museum extension. Above: the auditorium will be angled towards the sky
Snøhetta designed the extension as part of a feasibility study for Kon-Tiki Museum ? one of Norway's most visited museums that was originally built in 1957 to house the Kon-Tiki raft.
Heyerdahl sailed over 8,000 kilometres across the Pacific Ocean on the hand-built balsa raft from South America to the Polynesian islands in 1947 to demonstrate that ancient civilisations could travel vast distances across seas. The proposed design would revamp the exhibition spaces where the Kon-Tiki raft and Ra II papyrus reed boat, which Heyerdahl used to sail from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in 1970, are displayed.
Artefacts will remain in the original Kon-Tiki Museum
The centrepiece of the proposal would be an angular extension, which would be informed by the original building's triangular shape.

Set between the Kon-Tiki raft and Ra II boat, the wooden wedge-shaped structure would be angled towards the sky.
It's lower floor would contain a cafe with views out to the gardens, while the upper level will contain the multi-pur...