Soft Edge Chair and Pyramid Café Table, among others, featured in FLUGT Refugee Museum, Denmark’s new international museum for refugee stories. The museum turns statistics into people and conveys the universal issues, emotions and all the complex details associated with the plight of being a human being on the run.
FLUGT is located at the site of Denmark’s largest Refugee camp from World War II. FLUGT is designed by the world-renowned BIG, who have created an architectural setting in which the new built structures are directly shaped by their connection to the historical buildings; and furnished with designs from HAY.
BIG has adapted and extended one of the camp’s few remaining structures – a hospital building – into a 1,600 m2 museum.
The former hospital, which is transformed into FLUGT, is comprised of two elongated buildings. BIG has connected the two buildings architecturally and historically by adding a soft curve-shaped volume which brings 500 m2 of additional space to the museum and creates a welcoming structure, visible from afar.
The courtyard designed by BIG Landscape creates a peaceful sensory experience inside the museum as well as outside. A small mirror pool in the heart of the courtyard reflects the sky above it. Around the basin, heath planting known from the region emphasizes the identity of the area. Visitors who leave the museum have experienced a part of an important place in Danish history, with a new perspective on the refugee experience.
