Located in Denmark’s Jutland region on the site of a former bakery and farm, Kornets Hus – or grain house – is a new centre for information and learning about the region’s long history of food and farming culture. The centre, designed by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter offers visitors, locals and employees an opportunity for activity-based learning around the production of grain within the Jutland region, and within human civilization more widely.
Inspired by the form and materiality of a traditional baking kiln, the façade and roof of the timber-framed structure are covered with Pantheon terracotta shingles in the symbolic colour of Nordic red.
The L-shaped plan of the building wraps around a garden courtyard with views outward towards wheat fields that surround.
The plans of the centre is simple and flexible, thus accommodating a wide range of different activities ad functions.
Public spaces are arranged around a large bread oven. Meanwhile, teaching and exhibition spaces are positioned beneath two brick-clad light wells that reinterpret the kilns traditionally used by the region’s bakers. The spectacular light wells not only define interior space but more functionally offer optimal natural daylight for teaching.
