FRAGMENTARIET

Fragmentariet is developed as the “rubble” of the original Tegner Museum, treating the extension as the theoretical offcuts produced when the main building was carved from a single monolithic block. This concept allows the extension to absorb the majority of the museum’s functional program, providing larger and more flexible spaces while preserving the original museum as an artifact in itself.

A steel structural system holds concrete and rammed earth panels, reinforcing the project’s material connection to the landscape that Tegner described as his “Russia.” The design maintains a respectful dialogue with the existing museum: the tower element creates a vantage point from which the original building is understood as the primary sculpture, the Tegner focused exhibition block is intentionally oriented toward it, and a narrow tunnel connects the two volumes, producing a transitional tomb like passage that shows their relationship. Throughout the extension, compressed thresholds and tall interior spaces echo the rhythm of the existing museum while allowing the new building to assert its own identity as an accumulation of fragments being overgrown and being part of the landscape.

A glass walled exhibit completes the unfinished wing Tegner once planned, providing a protected environment for vulnerable sculptures while marking a contrast between the historic museum and its new, transparent counterpart.