CASE STUDY 2 Bestseller Aarhus / CF Moller

Bestseller Aarhus / CF Moller 3D view 3D view/ roof garden

Architects: CF Moller Introduction
Location: Aarhus, Denmark • The office complex for about 800 employees
Landscape: C.F. Møller Landscape • consists of individual buildings varying from
Engineers: COWI 1 to 12 storeys.
Size: 22,000 m² commercial office and
• contains office space, showrooms, photo and
24,000 m² delivery, parking and plant
film studios, an auditorium and a generous
canteen-restaurant area,
• three-storey car park with space for 450
cars, 400 bicycle racks and goods reception
zone below street level
Street View • The complex is surrounded by canals and
lakes on all four sides, forms the entrance
to the new, urban district on the waterfront
inAarhus, Denmark.

Concept
• create the impression of a town within a town Façade Treatment and Building Materials
with the mixture of office buildings and • The latitudinal south and north façades have
outdoor spaces distinctive reliefs, created in natural stone from
Sicily, which frame deep window niches.
• simple and elegant • simple transparent glass façades framed by natural
• A diversity of spaces stone to the east and west.
• resembles a varied flotilla of buildings at • Natural stone is also featured indoors – on stairs
Open Office Plan different levels, connected by a series of s s and floors, and even as wall covering and furniture.
outdoor spaces like atria, courtyards, • It is combined with dark oak and light metal surfaces
terraces and roof gardens to create a refined interplay of colours and
textures.
play of volumes

Interior Plaza

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

energy SOUTH WEST ELEVATION

The office complex uses sea-water cooling and Most interactive space
solar energy and is planned as a low energy View of Water body
class 2015 building, i.e. energy consumption from restaurant

will be 50% lower than the minimum

requirements stated in the building
regulations.
Building Science Circulation
• The focal point of the complex is an internal
“street” with a central indoor plaza laid over
a road passage which splits the building's
services and stairs FIRST FLOOR PLAN ground floor into two halves.
SECTION AT S-S
• From the plaza, there is access to a communal
auditorium, meeting facilities and experimental
Space analysis voids
store environments.
Green space (Refreshing area)
• EMPHASIS ON OPENNESS • 500-1000 people can gather on the plateau,
showrooms
• CONCRETE VICINITY SO INTRICATE PLACING OF stairs and balconies to attend large fashion
ROOF GARDENS shows and meetings.
• STAIR WIDTHS:4',5' AND 10'
• From the internal street, there are varying
• CORRIDOR WIDTH:6' glimpses into the outer green terraces and
• VOLUME DEVELOPMENT CONSIDERING AIR FLOW rooftop gardens – 10 green outdoor spaces in
AND LIGHTING
Presentation Room all.
• EGGCRATE SHADING NICHES IN SOUTH WEST
FACADE • The entrance is shaped like a bridge, from
• SHOWROOM AREA: 200-400 SQ. FT. which there are views of the building's three
• OFFICE AREA: 1800-4200 SQ. FT. underground levels.
• MEETING ROOM: 200-300 SQ. FT. Drawbacks
• TOILETS: 2 TOILETS PER 1800 SQ. FT.
• more circulation spaces like stairs, passages
• PRIVATE STAIRCASES FOR EACH OFFICES: 2 NO.S
and voids
• LIFTS:1-2 FOR EACH BLOCKS Void
• NO. OF TOILETS IN RESTAURANT: 5-8 NO.S PER
• fire stairs not considered
2400 SQ.FT. SECOND FLOOR PLAN • less no. of toilets in office area

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