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CCreate: Kengo Kuma/KKAA, Earth | Tree
Architect Kengo Kuma's sensory installation built around komorebi, sunlight filtering through leaves, with hands-on making for visitors of all ages.
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Hand-made slats of Douglas fir hang from the ceiling of Hall 4 like a tree canopy, and the light that gets through falls in patches on a floor of brick and sand. The Japanese word for that effect, sun through leaves, is komorebi, and Kengo Kuma's studio built the room around it.
You walk in on sand and brick, smelling the wood. The timber comes from Dinesen and the bricks from Petersen Tegl, and a video beside the wall texts shows both being worked. In the workshop zone you shape sand landscapes, stack miniature bricks and build with Tsumiki, the wooden blocks Kuma designed for play. CC calls this the heart of the show, not a kids' corner.
Politiken gave it five hearts ("sublimely beautiful") and Berlingske four stars. It's included in the CC ticket, 140 DKK at the desk with no booking, and Thursdays run to 21:00. Copenhagen's trees stay bare until April; this one keeps its leaves until 21 February.
Look for
The Douglas fir canopy
Look up at a veil of handcrafted fir slats hung from the ceiling, which breaks the light into shifting patches on the brick and sand below.
Kuma's Tsumiki blocks
Build with the Japanese wooden blocks Kengo Kuma designed for play, inspired by his own childhood, next to Danish-made wooden blocks.
The sand and brick workshop
Shape landscapes in sand and stack miniature bricks in the workshop zone, which CC treats as the core of the show.
The making-of video
Beside the wall texts, KKAA partner Yuki Ikeguchi shows the timber being worked at Dinesen and the bricks at Petersen Tegl.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Rainy Days
- Small Kids
With kids
Kids can shape sand, stack miniature bricks and build with wooden blocks in the workshop zone. Ages 3-17 pay 25 DKK, under-3s are free, and under-12s must come with an adult.
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- CCreate: Kengo Kuma/KKAA, Earth | TreePhoto: Jacopo La Forgia
- Henrik Vibskov: The ExhibitionPhoto: Josefina Eikenaar / Designmuseum Danmark
- The Garbage Man – Thomas DamboPhoto: Anders Sune Berg / ARKEN
- Gauguin & Kihara – First ImpressionsCourtesy of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
- Copenhagen ContemporaryOrf3us / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Designmuseum DanmarkJasparbang / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0