No. 03 / 09
Arkaden Sculpture Gallery
A long vaulted arcade for sculpture, where the sun moves across the floor like the hand of a clock.
- Location
- Lund, Sweden
- Year
- 2022
- Type
- Cultural
- Status
- Completed
- Area
- 2,150 m²
- Client
- Arkaden Art Foundation
- 1
Seven barrel vaults
Each bay carries its own brick vault, giving every sculpture a room within the long hall.
- 2
Deep south reveals
The window depth was fixed after a year of sun studies, so light moves across the floor all day.
- 3
Limestone plinth
Polished limestone runs from the gallery floor out to the street.
The project
How it came together
Arkaden is a single room, 46 metres long, built for a private collection of twentieth century sculpture. Seven barrel vaults rest on a rhythm of lime plastered arches, and every bay faces south through a deep reveal.
We studied the sun path for a full year before fixing the depth of the windows. In the morning the light lands on the floor, at midday it climbs the walls, and in the late afternoon it reaches the sculptures at the far end of the gallery.
The building is made from a short list of materials: hand pressed brick, lime plaster and polished limestone, chosen to age slowly and to ask for almost nothing in return.
