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Architects: drdh architects
- Area: 17500 m²
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:David Grandorge
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Manufacturers: BS Eurobib AS
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Acoustic Consultant: Arup Acoustics, Brekke Strand
Text description provided by the architects. Stormen is a landmark project to create a new cultural quarter for the city of Bodø, Norway comprised of two buildings by DRDH architects, a 6,300m² Library and a 11,200m² three-auditorium Concert Hall. In 2009, DRDH was awarded the design of the project through an invited international competition. The invitation to compete followed a previous open competition win for the masterplan of the city’s Cultural Quarter in 2008. Both buildings respond to the particularities of their context, situated between city and landscape, whilst maintaining a familial relationship that creates an urban ensemble. Externally, both façades display a trabeated construction of pre-cast concrete, with an aggregate of local white stone. Forms rhyme between them. Roofs and towers speak to one another and the library establishes a horizon, across which the Concert Hall surveys the dramatic landscape of sea and mountains.
