FOREST OF TALES

The proposal restructures the public space of Odense through a progressive landscape transformation, expanding a urban garden into a dense forested terrain. The intervention erases rigid boundaries between the municipal public domain and the institutional museum space. By embedding the museum facilities beneath and within an expanding arboreal canopy, the project establishes a continuous landscape surface that shifts the urban condition from a formal civic grid to an immersive natural environment.

The architectural strategy relies on the systematic blurring of interior and exterior perimeters. Rather than erecting a definitive building facade, the project utilizes a sequence of transitional spatial conditions that connect open air gardens directly to enclosed curatorial zones. The indoor volumes are integrated within the landscape geometry, maintaining visual transparency and physical continuity between the interior exhibition spaces and the surrounding forest ecology.

The design materializes the recurring motif of the forest in folklore—traditionally framed as a landscape of spatial ambiguity, transformation, and discovery—translating literary narrative into a physical spatial sequence. This thematic condition is materialized through variable structural densities, controlled daylight filtering, and non-linear circulation paths. The resulting spatial field substitutes traditional static exhibition galleries for an architectural continuum where spatial movement reflects the structural logic of narrative progression.