Completed 2023
Harbour Archive
A city archive inside an old harbour warehouse, with a new reading room cut into the brick façade.
Location
Bergen, NO
Sector
Year
2023
Client
Bergen Municipality
Area
2 800 m²
Budget
€12.2m
Programme
Archive, reading room, exhibition
Photography
J. Lindqvist
(A-095) Overview
Sheet 01 / 06
01.1 — Brief
Competition
1st prize, 2019
Design
2019 — 2020
On site
2021 — 2023
Opened
September 2023
A warehouse that keeps the city’s memory.
The warehouse was built to keep fish dry and cold, which is exactly what paper needs too. We kept its thick walls and slotted the stores inside.
One new opening in the façade lights the reading room and lets passers-by see the archive at work.
(A-095) Gallery
Sheet 02 / 06
Fig. 01 — The reading room window
Fig. 02 — Stores in the old warehouse
Fig. 03 — Repaired brick and new concrete
(A-095) Drawings
Sheet 03 / 06
A-102 — Ground floor plan · 1:200
A-301 — Section A–A · 1:100
Step 01 — Grid and axes
Step 02 — Walls and structure
Step 03 — Openings and finishes
Step 04 — Rooms and labels
Step 05 — Dimensions and title block
(A-095) In numbers
Sheet 04 / 06
m² reused warehouse
of shelving
embodied carbon vs. new build
new opening in the façade
(A-095) Materials
Sheet 04 / 06
Four materials, chosen to weather.
Hover a material to bring its specimen forward. Every surface was sampled on site for a full winter before it was specified.
(A-095) Client note
Sheet 05 / 06
“Researchers now ask to work here. Before, they asked us to post the files.”
Eirik Vaage
City Archivist, Bergen
(A-095) Credits
Sheet 06 / 06
Architect
Hallform Architects
Partner in charge
Ida Kjær
Structural engineer
Søe & Kirk Engineers
Services
Nord MEP
Landscape
Field Office
Lighting
Lumen Atelier
Contractor
Brink Byg
Photography
J. Lindqvist
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