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Infinity
Loop
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Recently we were
commissioned to design a
house - or rather two new
houses - a big block...
...And here is
Copenhagen
Harbour,
stretching from
Kongelunden all
this is Amager Common,
the way through
an enormous green
the city to
area in the middle of
Nordhavnen.
Copenhagen twice the size
of Dyrehaven.
...to Amager
Common.
Ørestad is situated as
a strip along the metro
connecting the inner city...
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In the middle
of the block, we need to
place a small tower.
The adjacent building is
an office complex.
...by separating
Rather than the two blocks from each
merging the tower and other, simultaneously
the block, we propose an giving the neighborhood a
urban cell division... new square.
...the
tower drops into
the middle of a
plaza.
A monolith
completely
surrounded by urban
space.
The proportions
are also fixed:
10 x 16 meters,
facing south.
crunch!
and the
residences
face southwest
toward the
plaza.
An entire
neighborhood in one
go, as a single building.
So the paradoxical
challenge is to simultaneously
create simplicity and variety,
difference and coherence -
in other words, to create a
city in the building.
In some places,
attempts have been made to create
the apparent variety of Nyhavn’S
BUILDINGS by having one architect
design all THE STRUCTURES and different
architects design the facades.
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!!
With each activity
BAM
placed on top of the next
on top of the next on
top of the next…
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We therefore
place the whole WHAM!! The opposite goes for
housing, which loves
commercial part in sunshine but hates a ground
the bottom of the floor location where people
building. can look straight into the
apartment.
...with both
front gardens
and roof
CLUNK!! gardens.
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UMPFFF !!!
Where residences
use energy to produce
heating, offices use it
for cooling.
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At this
vertical focal point,
we have placed all
the different social
activities (common room,
guest apartments,
lounges, cinema and
roof terrace) and
connected them with a
common stair which
ricochets through the A social tower tying the house
inner void. together from basement to attic.
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... courtyards...
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