Putteboks

Hans Christian Andersen

Ground floor

Basement

U67 Odense Andersen

The fragmented shape of the existing block
The Lotze’s Garden is a private secret garden

U67 Odense Andersen

Definition of a new compact block in the urban fabric
The Garden of Fairytales as a knot of two systems

U67 Odense Andersen

Ground floor: the storey of the sense

U67 Odense Andersen

Basement: the storey of the intellect

U67 Odense Andersen

Continuity of the public space from the indoor to the outdoor

It was so beautiful in the country. The grain was beautiful yellow, the oats were green, and the haystacks piled up in the meadows. Around the fields were great forests, and in the middle of the woods which were deep pools

Outside the castle there was a large garden with trees, bright red and dark blue, the fruit glittered like gold, and flowers like flames of fire, because the stems and leaves stirred continuously

The earth itself was composed of fine sand, but blue as the sulfur burning. It is a strange blue light enveloped everything

Each princess had a small flower bed in the garden, where he could plant the flowers she wanted, and the youngest had it round like the sun and you only put red flowers like him

The walls of coral and tall arched windows are made with amber crystal clear, and the roof is formed of shells that open and close according
to the movement of water

Strange trees grow, and plants with stems and petals so thin that move at the slightest movement of the water, as if they were living beings

The House of Fairytales, born from the combination of the Hans Christian Andersen Museum with the Tinderbox Cultural Centre into one building, with a 6000 m2 surface, deals with the aim of creating a complex experience that discovers infinite possibilities to in- volve people using either a direct or an indirect way to learn. Rebuilding a timeline of the XIX Century helps the project to build a larger framework of knowledge for the visitors. Two way of learning are presented in two different storey.
The ground floor is conceived in a more direct way of learning, it’s the storey of the senses. Each function is contained in a different shape, where the volumes stands out from a common slab a new compact block in the urban fabric, where as in a shaped box toy for children, the “Putteboks”, the content is revealed only from the inside of the building but everything is ac- cessible and the visitors are totally involved as main actors, playing or acting. This storey is linked to the more superficial level in the comprehension of the Andersen’s works

On the opposite could be read the underground level. Going down through a narrow stair is the first step to start, going physically deep to an indirect level of knowledge. It’s no more the senses of the visitors that are stimulated but their intellects. The main room is dedicated to the Andersen’s works and it’s surrounded by a chain of different rooms showing an in-depth research on life and historic issues. Each step of the visitor is a choice and each could build a personal mental map of Andersen.
This storey is linked to more deep level of comprehension. Going out from the build- ing, a porch guides the visitor towards the Garden of Fairytales where the definition of a natural buffer that contains a common ground with different room of expe- rience could be found. A green lung of several trees’ es- sence defines a space as a whole, a Magic Wood, where the inner room is discovered only going through it.

With: Luca Moscelli
Collaborators: Valentina Chiappa Nuñez, Giampaolo Ferrara
Media Partner and Creative Learning Consultant: Timbuktu Labs inc.

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