Architettura e cultura del luogo. Il Wadden Sea Centre di Dorte Mandrup in Danimarca

In an era in which the theme of environmental protection has become a sort of vadecum for everyone, the project for a naturalistic visitor center, the Wadden Sea Center (2017/2021) designed by Dorte Mandrup in Denmark, seems to open an important path towards the possibility of recovering and strengthening our dialogue with nature with immediate effects on the enrichment of the natural heritage and at the same time of the built one. What the architect hopes with this project is that nature and culture achieve the strength of an intense and poetic dialogue, where traditions are renewed and by renewing themselves they transmit confidence in the future through “new forms” of beauty, in harmony with one’s time and with everything that makes the transformation of the gaze towards horizons of new habitability of the planet urgent. A project as a link between distant cultures, expanses of flat and marshy landscapes, rich fauna and man, so as to be able to bring their horizons closer and make a possible becoming “together” more discursive.