"The design buried the museum in the earth, to make it less intrusive to the landscape. This also provided Utzon with an excuse to introduce curved subterranean shapes, sculpted and hollowed out like giant pots buried in the ground. At Silkeborg, Utzon's temptation to dig into and explore the subterranean gravel deposits left by retreating ice sheets was understandable. The Asger Jorn museum design has a secretive, voluptuous quality, its main spaces excavated below ground level and only accessible from the top. The internal circulation, using criss-crossing walkways bridging the vertical gallery spaces, enhanced the dynamic interplay and added greatly to the endless quality of those spaces. In this way, the museum acquired an unfinished restless turbulence similar to an Asger Jorn canvas."
Drew, Phillip; The Masterpiece Jorn Utzon; A Secret Life, Hardie Grant Books, 1999
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