Submission: November 29, 2013
Registration: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Location: Odense, Denmark
Prizes: Three first prizes of € 20.000 each
Type: Open competition for architects and architecture students
International ideas competition launched by Odense City Museums in collaboration with the City of Odense to create a unique place where fantasy and reality come together, where the past meets the present, and where the indoors and the outdoors merge into one: a magical house of fairytales and a fairytale garden.
The objective of this ideas competition for a new House of Fairytales in Odense is to obtain proposals for an overall intermediary and architectural concept that can serve as a source of inspiration and a basis for further development of the place. The competition site comprises the buildings that currently house the Hans Christian Andersen Museum and the Tinderbox Cultural Centre for Children as well as the adjacent green urban space, Lotze’s Garden. The new House of Fairytales should unite, continue and rethink the experiences currently offered at the museum and the cultural centre for children, but should also add a new layer so that the fairytales become the gateway to the Hans Christian Andersen universe. Furthermore, the ideas competition is expected to show how a unique interplay between existing buildings, new buildings and public urban spaces can create a very special place and a new spatial and experiential whole for the benefit of both local residents and visitors to the House of Fairytales.
Odense City Museums wish to create a Hans Christian Andersen House of Fairytales with a surrounding garden that invites people into the writer’s fairytale world and serves as a distinct landmark in Odense. It will be an attraction that could be created nowhere else in the world, as it is located at the exact spot where the great poet was born.