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Thy National Park visitor centre
19 October 2021
Design: LOOP Architects
Location: Thy National Park, Thy, Northwest Jutland, Denmark
Denmark’s first National Park Visitor Centre is a stepping stone to nature

Photos by Rasmus Hjortshøj, COAST
Thy National Park visitor centre Design
This autumn, Denmark has been enriched with a new visitor centre in Thy National Park. This stunning building, designed by Danish LOOP Architects, is in a small coastal village in Northern Jutland. The building is gently and yet visibly wedged into the dune landscape serving as an architectural portal to the 244-square-kilometre national park.
A stepping stone to nature
?We won the architectural competition in 2019 with a building that met the client?s ambition for a visitor centre whose architecture gently nudges its visitors to enter and explore the park?, explains partner and architect at LOOP Architects Morten Nymann.

One of the criteria in the competition was to integrate the building into the existing dune landscape. LOOP has solved this via distinctive, cast-in-place concrete walls lead the way to the two entrances. The walls function partly as sheltered spaces. They also mediate the transition to the village of Nr. Vorupør, the national park and the North Sea.

The important feature, in addition to create a close connection between the inside of the building and the s...