Maritime Youth House

ROJECT : MARITIME YOUTH HOUSE
LOCATION : SUNDBY HARBOUR, COPENHAGEN, DK (AMAGER STANDVEJ 13)
SIZE : 2000 M2
BUDGET : 1 170 000 €
TYPE : INVITED COMPETITION, 1ST PRIZE
STATUS : COMPLETION JUNE 2004
CLIENT : KVARTERLØFT GOVERNMENTAL CITY RENEWAL PROJECT, LOKALE OG
ANLÆGSFONDEN, THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT FOND
COLLABORATORS: PLOT, JDS + BIG

PROJECT TEAM:
JULIEN DE SMEDT,
BJARKE INGELS, ANNETTE JENSEN, FINN NØRKJÆR, HENNING STÜBEN, JØRN JENSEN, MADS H LUND, MARC JAY, NINA TER-BORCH

CONSULTANTS: BIRCH & KROGBOE A/S: JESPER GUDMAN, STRUKTUR

CONCEPT:
The concept of the project is that instead of using 1/4 of the project's
budget, originally allocated by the client to cleaning the polluted soil of the site, we discovered that the pollution was heavy metals and therefore stable. So if you didn't reach the ground you wouldn't have to remove/clean it... we then decided to lay out a wooden deck on the entirety of the site.
Thus spending money for architecture/program/effect rather than invisible
waste.

Two clients had to share the facilities: a sail club and a youth house. Their
desires were opposite: the youth house wanted outdoor space for the kids to
play, the sail club needed most of the site to park their boats... the
building is the literal results of our negotiations with these 2
contradictory demands: when the deck bubbles up it allows for boat storage
underneath, still letting the kids run/play above...

The interior of the building is very basic, with one major characteristic: the front house, which is used as common room and where most of the daily activities take place, is more luxurious than the workshop and storage building on the back corner, but still in a very puritan way. The difference is that the floor in the workshop is a standard grey concrete while in the community space it’s a white concrete with white stones. The presence of hard surfaces everywhere on the inside is meant as a contrast to the wooden exterior, almost like an inversion of what is commonly done (wood indoor, asphalt outdoor). This is reflecting the dominance of outdoor activities of the youth house. The actual ‘room’ of the Maritime Youth house IS the wooden deck… it englobes all the programs, indoor and outdoor.

Montenegro Residences by BIG

"The Montenegro Terraces are located in a scenic bay between Budva og Svedi Stefan. The site is located on a steep incline and incorporates 8,000 m2 of holiday homes.

In an effort to combine maximum density with minimum impact we created the residential architecture by turning the topography in to the masterplan. Like a naturally generated desgin we made every 4th topoline the facade of a terrace house. The facades follow the natural curvature of the mountain terrain providing large private gardens with apnaromic views of Aegean Sea.

The result is a landscape of inhabited ricefields. Topography as architecture."

Simple concept, but couldn't agree more to it. Topography as architecture, as a paragon of Organic Architecture.

"So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but instead exalting the simple laws of common sense or of super-sense if you prefer determining form by way of the nature of materials..." - Frank Lloyd Wright, An Organic Architecture, 1939

This, aesthetic is to appreciate from the inside, which is the exact function of the built environment. For being used, not being seen. deeply intergrate with the Genius Loci( the steep incline clif-like hill) on the other hand capture the most essential element of the Site, blue sea which a total horizon.

Leaf Chapel by Klein Dytham Architects

Leaf Chapel or some call it Wedding Chapel . Poetic place created for romantic event, forget about the form and forget about grand, being romantic, being poetic this is architecture.

Take the idea from Church on water, bringing the nature into the chapel rather than pulling out to it, because the most beautiful scene is to be seen is out of it, not in it

Design Statement Retrieved from http://www.klein-dytham.com worth to explore.

The Leaf chapel sits within the grounds of the Risonare hotel resort in Kobuchizawa, a refreshingly green setting with beautiful views to the southern Japanese Alps, Yatsugatuke peaks and Mt.Fuji.

The chapel is formed by 2 leaves - one glass, one steel - which have seemingly fluttered to the ground. The glass leaf with its delicate lace pattern motif emulates a pergola and the structure holding it up reminds one of the veins of a leaf which slowly become thinner the further they get from the central stem.

The white steel leaf, perforated with 4700 holes, each of which hold an acrylic lens, is similar to bride's veil made of delicate lace. Light filters through the lenses and projects a lace pattern onto the white fabric inside.

At the end of the ceremony when the groom lifts the bride’s veil for the legendary kiss the ‘steel veil’ magically opens too, revealing the pond and the enchanting nature beyond.

11 OCT DINNER