H. C. Andersens House
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It places high demands on the story when you are tasked with installing AV, sound, and lighting in nothing less than H.C. Andersen's House. A beautiful and fairytale building that reinterprets H.C. Andersen in the author's own hometown.
The poetic house was designed by world-renowned architect Kengo Kuma and captures Andersen's simple yet ambiguous universe through modern architecture. In an exhibition developed and designed by Odense City Museums and Event Communication from London, 12 international artists have been commissioned to tell H.C. Andersen's quirky fairy tales in completely new ways.
Wherever you are in the exhibition, you can expect a highly sensual and almost theatrical experience. The audience is drawn into H.C. Andersen's fairy tales from all sides—both visually and aurally. Sound, light, and video, therefore, play a central role in the entire exhibition design.
Stouenborg has primarily been responsible for installing and programming sound, lighting, and video, but has also been a sparring partner for the artistic team during the process, when there was a need to optimize the technical design. Along the way, several solutions have been re-prioritized, so that a more straightforward solution for video processing, for example, freed up resources to choose more powerful projectors to compensate for the building's natural incidence of daylight. Instead of choosing a conventional analog speaker system, the speaker system throughout the house has become IP-based, so that it can be controlled centrally and the sound is thus distributed more intelligently. The IP-based solution creates easier and more precise adjustments to the sound system.
The project uses more than 40 projectors, 60 speakers, and 40 screens, which are assembled into a complex network-based system—all of which is controlled from a simple touch panel. The network-based solution makes it easy to provide support for all parts of the system or make changes, as everything can be operated remotely.
Like this project for H. C. Andersen's House, Stouenborg has also integrated AV, sound, and lighting at other museums such as the Carl Nielsen Museum, the Old Town in Aarhus, and the Refugees Museum. You can also read more about other integration projects Stouenborg has done here.