SLUSEHOLMEN
Architects - Arkitema Architects, Sjoerd Soeters
Client - Copenhagen Malmö Port, Copenhagen Municipality, JM Danmark A/S, Sjælsø Gruppen A/S, Nordicom
Project Year - 2008
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Area - 135000 m²
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Housing - 85,000 m²
Business - 50,000 m²
COPENHAGEN
Waterfront Development / Masterplanning / Urban Acupuncture
From the architect. Canal community with 1,000 dwellings.
Lively and imaginative housing blocks that are unique in Danish housing construction.
Amsterdam, Venice, Christianshavn – it is not hard to see where the Sluseholmen development finds its inspiration.
Water is the essential element in the canal community now taking shape in the district’s old industrial and harbour areas.
Sluseholmen consists of eight housing islands, with large and small town houses standing side by side, forming continuous blocks. The atmosphere varies between an intimate canalside environment and areas characterised by a large scale and open views of the surrounding harbour environment.
The houses are frequently located right next to the canals, while the bridges, wharfs and waterside steps allow residents to get close to the water and dip their toes in it.
Together with the Dutch architect Sjoerd Soeters, Arkitema has been responsible for the general planning of the area. Arkitema also developed the shell structures and drew up the overall game rules governing the proportions, materials and colours.
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These game rules provided a starting-point for the many architects who were invited to design facades. The individual houses are highly diverse in appearance, like Copenhagen vernacular architecture from around 1900. The result is lively and imaginative block housing that is unique in Danish housing construction. We have created green oases in the centre of the large courtyard areas – neighbourhood quadrangles where residents can organise common areas for relaxation and play. Here there is room for a rose garden, a swimming pool or a small private vegetable garden.
KALVEBOD BOLGE
Kalvebod Bolge is a waterfront intervention in Copenhagen that encourages the public to interact with the water during the summer months when the temperatures are high enough.
It provides gathering spaces, seating areas and places where you can jump into the water.
This intervention is reflected on the opposite side of the water with the Copenhagen Harbour Baths by BIG & JDS.
The bowtie-shaped 61,000 sqm mixed-use building of three different types of residential housing and 10,000 sqm of retail and offices comprises Denmark’s largest private development ever undertaken.
Commissioned by St. Frederikslund and Per Hopfner in 2006, the 8 House sits on the outer edge of the city as the southern most outpost of Orestad.
Rather than a traditional block, the 8 House stacks all ingredients of a lively urban neighborhood into horizontal layers of typologies connected by a continuous promenade and cycling path up to the 10th floor creating a three-dimensional urban neighborhood where suburban life merges with the energy of a city, where business and housing co-exist.
ORESTAD
Located towards the Southern end of Copenhagen on the Island of Amagur, Orestad is a huge new district of the city.
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Construction began in the late 1990's and is due to be completed in 2020.
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The masterplan for the area, designed by Daniel Libeskind Architects, features projects by BIG, JDS and 3XN.
The district features award-winning residential and commercial buildings, located opposite an active ferry terminal. Here you can find cafes, kiosks and supermarkets.
Along the way, consideration has always been given to the historic assets ​​of the area, and CPH City & Port Development has spearheaded the renovation of a number of the area’s beautiful historic buildings, all of which have been transformed into exclusive offices.
AMERIKA PLADS
A new neighbourhood in the city, by the water. Amerika Plads is the result of close cooperation between CPH City & Port Development, TK Development and the renowned Dutch architect, Adriaan Geuze, from the architecture firm West 8.
The objective was to create a real town, where there is a mixture of functions and enough people to ensure that there is life in the squares and on the roads. High quality, challenging architecture and high-density development have been key concepts in achieving this goal.
The IT University is arranged around a large central atrium. In the atrium space a number of group and meeting rooms, designed as corbelled boxes, are placed in a dynamic composition – like extracted drawers of various sizes.
The ground floor comprises the common facilities; lecture halls, students’ café, canteen and library. All research and teaching areas are located on the upper floors. Teaching facilities in open study areas surrounding the atrium and research departments in the calmer zones at both ends of the building.
IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
Whilst not a part of a major masterplan, the development around the IT University of Copenhagen is an interesting district to explore.
The architecture found around this part of the city is quintessentially Danish, particularly the main University building, designed by Henning Larsen Architects.
Another notable piece of design is the Tietgen Dormitory by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects.
The building’s form encloses a circular courtyard which is used as a social space. Contrasting square volumes project into this space. This circular form is meant to symbolise equality.
REFERENCES
http://www.archdaily.com/76988/it-university-of-copenhagen-video-by-henning-larsen-architects
http://www.archdaily.com/330652/sluseholmen-arkitema-architects-sjoerd-soeters
http://www.archdaily.com/83307/8-house-big
http://aasarchitecture.com/2014/12/orestad-syd-masterplan-estudio-lunar.html
https://fi.pinterest.com/pin/128985976804264592/
http://www.west8.com/projects/amerika_plads/?s=In