Kokillen Museum in Fagersta, Swedish Building Development, Architecture Images
Kokillen Museum Building in Fagersta
Architecture Development in Sweden – design by Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter
14 Feb 2018
Kokillen
Design: Bornstein Lyckefors arkitekter
Location: Fagersta, Sweden
Kokillen is a black iron imprint formed by the site and program molded in a volume that relates to the situation and public space surrounding it. It?s also a building that tells a story about the reason why there is a city in the first place. That?s a story starting with one material the extraction of iron.

Kokillen Ekomuseum, is assembling 60 heritage sites in Bergslagen Sweden in a new Iron Industry museum. One of the sites, The Engelsberg ironworks, is considered to be one of the finest industrial monuments in the world, and was added to UNESCO?s list of World Heritage Sites in 1993.
The sites include wooden manor, parks, smelting houses, blast furnace, forges, hammers, waterwheels, rapids, pig iron and bar iron production. The site for the new museum is located in the middle Bergslagen in the city of Fagersta at Västanfors heritage and folklore centre and is surrounded by traditionally red-pigmented wooden log houses. The new building will serve as an entrance to the centre and the larger collection of heritage locations.

The greatest architectural challenge was to create a design that on one hand would blend in and relate to the situation and existing program and on the other ha...