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Designed by Stockholm-based Elding Oscarson, the Wisdome is the most recent addition to Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology, known as the Tekniska Museet. It is the fifth and final dome built as part of a decade-long initiative by the country’s leading science museums to create state-of-the-art theaters for showing immersive 3D visualizations. The Wisdome Stockholm, which is situated in what was an unused courtyard, is the first in the series to incorporate an event hall for large gatherings. The 82-by-157-foot single-story hall envelops the theater as though it were a gravitational field around a celestial body. The complex roof structure is constructed of digitally milled strips of laminated spruce. These linear elements, totaling some 12.4 miles in length, were screwed together to form beams. Dowels connect transverse and longitudinal layers of beams to form a vaulted lattice shell that is lined with thermal and acoustic insulation. The roof is clad in 85,000 handmade, hand-nailed wood shingles.

Photo © Mikael Olsson, click to enlarge.