At Wisdome Stockholm at the Tekniska Museet (Museum of Technology) in Stockholm, tricky and complex issues are brought to life through cutting-edge visualisation technology. Blumer Lehmann developed the Free Form timber structure together with its project partners and is also responsible for its production and assembly.
The building was designed in timber by Swedish architecture firm Elding Oscarson in collaboration with structural engineer Florian Kosche. The architectural competition stipulated the use of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and laminated veneer lumber (LVL) as the main construction materials for this innovative building project. Swedish-Finnish firm Stora Enso supplied the timber materials.
To implement this complex structure, the project team created several mock-ups in the development phase that delivered the insights needed to identify solutions. As a result, a traditional construction style using dowels and plugs for the joints was used for the Free Form vaulted roof. Joined together in grid form, the beams are able to span the large dimensions of the main structure.
Inside, the building houses a hemispherical dome structure, complete with 3D cinema: the Wisdome Stockholm itself. The components for the dome structure are produced entirely in cross-laminated timber (CLT) back in the Stora Enso factory in Sweden.
