About an hour’s drive away from Oslo in the Norwegian sculpture park of Kistefos, an architecturally curved museum, appropriately labeled “The Twist,” molds itself into its surroundings. Designed by the architects at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the curved exterior of the building features long aluminum and wood panels twisted like a deck of cards with each panel shifted slightly forward. While the outside appears to be curved, in reality, everything is straight, bestowing upon the building a theme of altered perception that carries over to its interior lighting design. The building, which also acts as a sculpture and a bridge spanning the Randselva river, houses three main exhibition spaces, each with a very different amount of daylight from its counterparts. The Closed Gallery, located on the river’s south side, features a 30-ft room devoid of daylight while the Panorama Gallery on the river’s north end features large panoramic windows that continue on to the middle-ground Twist Gallery as a tapering skylight. Starting in May 2018 and finishing alongside the official museum opening in September 2019, Thea Collett of Light Bureau Norway (Oslo), the project’s principal lighting designer, relied on a minimal and flexible design to create a homogenous feeling throughout the three different architectural spaces.
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