Bjarke Ingels Group will be turning what was a supermarket building into a museum for paper crafts and design in Hune, in Denmark’s North Jutland region. The existing construction of about 900 meters will be renovated and expanded to create a 2,300-square-meter institution devoted to a tradition deeply rooted in Danish cultural heritage, with workshops, teaching rooms, offices, a venue for a variety of events, and storage facilities.

A lightweight curving roof, which looks like a sheet of paper, covers the old supermarket and generates space around it for new functions, unifying the complex. The existing building’s walls will have a layer of paper applied on it externally. Serving to regulate acoustics, this takes inspiration from origami and was designed in collaboration with several paper artists. Inside we find elements made with the wood used to manufacture paper. A winding path with native vegetation entices visitors to explore the museum’s surroundings.