TIRPITZ - Museum

Blåvand

Denmark

The TIRPITZ museum is hidden beneath the beautiful white sand dunes of Jutland’s west coast. To carry the immense weight of the dunes, compact FOAMGLAS® insulation was used. It is practically incompressible, dimensionally stable and permanently resistant to pressure, keeping the TIRPITZ safe from harm.

Architect

Bjarke Ingels Group ApS

Contractor

Hetag Tagdækning Syd A/S

Year

2017

Application

Compact roofing systems

Hidden beneath the characteristic sand dunes of Jutland’s west coast lies the newly opened TIRPITZ museum. The new museum was conceived, designed, and built as a portal to the treasure chest of the region’s best kept stories. It covers an area of 2,500 m².

The museum is a world-class attraction amidst the fantastic coastal landscape of western Jutland, characterised by the white sand dunes with lyme grass and shrubland covered in heather.

2D Build-up of the green roof of the Tirpitz museum in Denmark

1 Concrete deck (screeded) 2 Primer 3 FOAMGLAS® slabs or 4 FOAMGLAS® tapered slabs, laid in hot bitumen 5 Two layers of bitumen membranes 6 Glass fleece 7 Planting