Ilulissat Icefjord Centre

Ilulissat Icefjord Centre is a new experience and science center located in the UNESCO-protected area on the west coast in Greenland. The building is shaped in an elegant curve that floats lightly above the icefjord offering a spectacular view through the valley and to the icefjord.

The wooden framework, designed as a truss, bridges the rugged landscape. The solution of the project complex form, construction and sustainability is solved by using multidisciplinary Computational Design tools.

Parametric modeling is used from the earliest design fazes to integrate energy- and construction analysis. Through this it is possible to optimize the static and energywise performance. The main purpose has been to design a great indoor climate with the least possible need for energy.

The project is together with Dorte Mandrup Architects and is expected to open in 2020.

Hans Christian Andersens House

Hans Christian Andersen House of Fairytales features a series of cylindrical volumes with glass and latticed timber facades, and scooped green roofs.

The cylinders are placed close to the existing buildings near the poet’s birthplace and memorial hall.

The visitors are going to experience a building which focuses on the fairytales. The building is created in multiple levels with most of the building placed below ground level. The rooms are going to switch between up/down and indoor/outdoor.

By lowering most of the exhibition below ground level space is created for a fairytale garden which is going to combine the places various levels.

The inspiration for the new building originates in the poet’s birthplace and surrounding village houses. A new interpretation of the timber frame tradition is expressed by using massive timber with glass fillings which give a light expression like a pavilion in the garden.

The architecture competition was won in 2016 by international renowned Kengo Kuma and the project is carried out in a close corporation with the architect Yuki Ikeguchi, partner in Kengo Kuma & Associates.

The Water Culture House

The new Water Culture House and harbor bath at Christiansholm, "Paper Island", emphasizes the importance of water in history, culture and city life in Copenhagen. The proposal creates a wide and varied experience of water in its various stages and shapes. The keywords are motion, reflection and transparency.

The architecture is created through studies of the composition of positive and negative volumes. A number of different volumes of pyramid are worked vertically and horizontally to create special experiences for each room.

Construction
Construction The Water Culture House consists of a roof that divides the upper volumes of the house into five independent pyramid-shaped structures, a coherent ground floor and basement floors. The basement is made of concrete structure and the ground floor as a combination of steel and concrete constructions. The roof surface is constructed according to a continuous principle based on a steel grid solution. The pyramid consist of grid surfaces that lean against each other, thus providing a stable construction. The facade will be covered with tiles on the inside and on the exterior of the building.

Indoor environment
From the beginning of the project a focus has been to secure a great indoor environment with a low use of energy in the challenging architecture.

The facades are sealed. The building envelope has low U-values and very energy efficient ventilation system with possibility for recirculation. The ventilation system will distribute the air in the swimming pool area via slot diffusion integrated in the floor. The supply air system is placed I a U-shape around three sides of the swimming pool. The extraction device is placed on the forth side of the pool and in the cone to gain the most optimal air supply in all zones.

Great Northern Spa

Great Northern Spa is built after the same basic principle and with a great finish like Great Northern Club House.

The roof structure consists of 6 folded surfaces with a larger span like Great Northern Club House. The stability is secured by means of only 4 fixed pillars. Only one of the pillars are visibly with its slim circular shape.

The large glass facades are intact with glass from roof to base this provides an unlimited view from the pool area towards the lake.

Great Northern Spa is a building where many invisible solutions have been incorporated at the technical facilities. An example is the space above the suspended roof which has been used as pressure chamber for the supply air. The air gets pressed through an “invisible” grid in a frieze along the wall that causes low velocity which means no draught or noise.

From waste to biomaterial

In the Summer of 2018, we asked ourselves “how might we design a circular pavilion based on waste and organic materials?”. This resulted in a pavilion constructed of a timber frame and a roof membrane grown from hemp, coffee grounds and mycelium spores.

ENABLING REGENERATIVE BUILDINGS
Substituting conventional and high-impact building materials with mycelium and waste-based building materials will reduce waste currently sent to incineration or landfill significantly. The material belongs to the biosphere of the cradle to cradle design paradigm which means that it is a biologically grown and biodegradable material. The material has a minimal environmental impact.

TRANSFERRING THE BIGGEST RECYCLING PROCESS FROM NATURE
Through an evolutionary process mycelium has developed resilient material characteristics which makes it attractive to the building industry. These biomaterials are regenerative, circular, rapidly renewable, lightweight, strong, fire and water resistant and they have a low thermal conductivity.

PROGRAMMABLE MATERIALS
The technical characteristics of the material depend on the growth process the biomaterial and the specific mix of raw materials. This means that the materials are programmable and that the same process can result in many different materials with different usage.

FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
The project has enabled Søren Jensen to become one of three winners of the Circular Construction Challenge where we will:

• lead a co-creative process to develop and test new mycelium and waste-based recipes for biomaterials,
• provide proof of concept,
• develop a business case for mycelium and waste-based material production and
• design a platform focusing on knowledge-sharing and creating a marketplace for biomaterials.

Godsbanekollegiet

Godsbanekollegiets is a dormitory with 228 student accommodations and 132 dormitory rooms close to Aarhus pulsating town life. The building is designed with a clear aim to incorporate sustainability inside as well as outside. The focus is on optimal occupation of layout, multiple functional spatiality’s and robust materials.

Kollegiekontoret in Aarhus and AAB Aarhus is behind the 17.000 m2 lining quarters. The new building is a 45 meters high-rise with a view across the city, the shared facilities and the orangeries at the roofs. The buildings overall layout is with blocks at 4 to 6 floors and one tower block at 13 floors.

The building is designed to create synergy between energy, indoor climate and architecture. The lowest energy consumption is obtained through a line of passive and active initiatives where the buildings design and the selected technical solutions plays a crucial role. The chosen solutions are optimal isolating structures, 3 layers energy windows, mechanical ventilation with high heat recovery and a low SEL-value including solar cells at the building’s roof.

The building is mainly constructed as a robust prefabricated construction that secures that it is easy to construct. In a few places the building is constructed in in-situ, for example the slab above the ground floor and above the basement in the high rise, this also includes AAB’s part of the site.

The benefits in in-situ cast slabs is that the horizontal loads from the apartments above easier can be divided between the stabilizing walls below. A benefit of this solutions is that it is easier to conduct the horizontal route at ground level.

Challeging soil conditions
The building is constructed at the corner of Carl Blochs Gade and Søren Frichs Vej in an areal where the soil conditions provide challenges which means that the building is founded at concrete poles.
The basement has been constructed as a souble structure to secure a watertight structure due to the high-water table in the area.

Søtorvet in Silkeborg

Søtorvet in Silkeborg is a new part of town close to Papirfabrikken. A quarter that will gather several functions including residences, retail, business and an elevated green city park inspired by New York High Line.

The quarter consists of approximately 280 owner-occupied homes and rented housing divided between eight tower blocks at different heights from five to eight floors. The Tower blocks are adjusted to the surroundings which provides an open view across the area. The size of the apartment varies to secure multifarious residents.

The living quarters are built at a raised, public urban space where Silkeborg’s great nature are incorporated. There is a fantastic view from the city park out over the city, Silkeborg Langsø, the habour and the nature.

An amphi stairway is created as a part of the city park that turns towards the promenade along Remstrup stream, the paper factory and the habour. It is stairs that will create an attractive rendezvous point in Silkeborg.

Ry Folk School

Ry Folk School is upgraded, rethought and renovated during four stages based on the client’s desire to make the old buildings more sustainable and secure the physical settings corresponds to present and future demands.

The folk school consists of different buildings from the 18th century that has been joint together. First phase is a new addition that is a small but complex building with light and spacious rooms. The new building Bakkehuset, replaces an old building and creates at the same time a link to the building next to.

It is not possible to draw straight lines on Bakkehuset’s roof surface. The reason is that the building has been built in different periods. One of the greatest challenges has been the roof surfaces which are of different levels both the top of the roof, the roof pitch and the facades.

The roofs geometry is based on triangles which combines the adjacent buildings to the building’s geometry which appears very clearly both externally and internally due to the vaulted ceiling.

Structurally the vertical loadbearing and stabilizing steel frame goes up in the roof. The steel frame is supported by wood at one side which from the outside of the building looks like wooden columns. As an untraditional feature the oak wood covered steel frames has been led out through the façade as an integrated part to underline the architectural expression.

From the first-floor stairs are leading up to a suspended deck that function as a balcony. The balcony is ”floating” in the room and hung up in the roof construction and has a 360 degrees view.

The 2nd and 4th stage of the conversion and renovation are of the existing buildings including preserving the main building. The other buildings are also getting a new roofing. The slate roofing will provide a uniform expression.

A floating bird hide, Tryggelev Nor

Normally our projects have a solid foundation but there are exceptions – the floating bird hide placed at Fugleværnsfonden’s bird sanctuary Tryggelev Nor on southern Langeland.

The bird hide is a prototype that has been constructed to enter unnoticed in the surrounding nature as a floating hideout. As an observer you have the possibility to sit close to the water level.

Søren Jensen has been studying the bird hides stability on water. The analysis has been based on a mounting situation, a permanent situation, and when 7 ornithologists aboard discovers a rare type of bird. We have for example been testing what will happen when all person aboard walks to the same corner all at once. Several different scenarios have been tested to secure that the bird hide doesn’t keel over or moves to much.

The studies are conducted via computational design by a dynamic analysis in connection to buoyancy and load impact.

It is Aage V. Jensens Naturfond, Fugleværnsfonden and Realdania, that are behind the project. The desire is to create a new form of bird hide where the birds can be experienced close to the water level.

Furesø Town Hall

The new Furesø Town hall “the loop” is an expansion with a loop shaped addition that expand the existing building at both ends allowing the additions to meet in a loop around the central atrium.

With this new building there is room for 330 employees and there has been created a community house that can be booked outside opening hours.

The building is designed to support the collaboration in project areas. The buildings layout is with flexible, intelligent square meters that secures that the different rooms can be used for different purposes. This is also the reason why there is a hall for multiple purposes instead of a room specific for the city council.

With the indoor climate the challenge has been to fit the old with the new. Together with Riis Acoustic the project team has refined lamella roof made of felt lamella. This makes it possible to follow the demands for the acoustics in the room. It also allows the air to exchange heath with the exposed concrete above the lamellas. The building has herby become more robust towards heat loads than the original building.

The energy and resource consumption are limited by using a mixture of the building’s passive qualities through heat accumulation, daylight and natural air current and by optimisation of the concrete structures, the usage of hybrid ventilation, usage of solar energy and reutilization of rainwater to flush the toilets.

The town hall is an attractive partner in the surrounding urban space. This includes a façade formed as a “shelving unit” with niches that invites to a pause. “The shelving unit” are also a part of the sunlight protection.

The existing town hall building is surrounded and renovated. The buildings functional, layout and installations are naturally connected with the new construction. All the non-bearing walls, heating, ventilation and electrical installations has been replaced.

The building reflects openness, accessibility, identity, quality and functionality.

SHIP

SHIP is an E-shaped 4-finger, 5-story apartment block constructed as a traditional concrete element building. The expression of the facade are zigzag-shaped balcony elements that are shifted from floor to floor. There are 200 exclusive apartments attractively located on the west side of Aarhus, partly overlooking the marina.

The Construction company Olav de Linde asked us to enter into phase 2 of the project in 2016 after the initial business development was stopped in 2013.

One of the major challenges in the project was to utilize in the new project 1,500 18m long piles which has already been placed, as well as utilize the piles which has been driven into the soil in 2 different levels around the excavation.

The piles are anchor-funded on 3 sides and cantilever on the fourth side where it has not been possible to place the ground anchors. In the area where the basement is constructed there are some slanting piles from previous and new ramming. In addition to slanting piles there are many piles, supplemented by approx. 1650 new piles. One challenge is to place the required number of new piles in consideration of the new design.

A P-basement is established at the whole ground floor. The slabs for the basement are carried out in situ and are dimensioned partly for load from fire trucks and garden installations.

The balcony solution ensures a transparent appearance by slamming the balconies on the inside of the facade. A special anchorage construction is made for the large balcony elements, the balconies are tied to a node where the load from the balconies is opposed to a weight in the building. The torsion dissolves in the façade so the load is carried as a pure vertical force down through the facade.

Rømerhus

Rømerhus is an historic 7-storey commercial building dating from the year 1895. The façade has been restored to its original condition, while the rest of the house is undergoing a radical reconstruction including major changes in the structural system.

The building had to continue to be operational during the entire construction process, and therefore the conversion was carried out from above. The building's internal courtyard is re-imagined in the new building as a five storey high atrium in which the load from the floors above is transferred through a suspension system to two mega columns.

On two of the existing levels - the ground floor and first floor level, the existing floor slabs are replaced with in-situ flat slabs, which allows the arrangement of the continuous, column-free commercial areas. The many structural interventions has increased the building loads and it has been necessary to significantly strengthen the existing foundations with 25-meter-long GEWI piles.

Tingbjerg

Tingbjerg Kulturhus is charactirized by its highly distinctive geometry comprising a trapezoidal floor plan and an angular sloping roof. The building's main facade rises approximately 20 meters above the ground and the roof and trapezoidal gable walls are covered with ceramic tiles.

The floors are designed as flat slabs with very few internal columns and a slab edge which steps back as the building rises. Cross walls transfer the loads from the slabs to the foundations, and the services are integrated into the building’s dedicated services zones. This allows the creation of a high, open space in the centre of the building with unobstructed views to the top floor which gives the sensation that the floors are floating.

New Psychiatry Bispebjerg

New Psychiatry Bispebjerg is a hospital complex creating an innovative environment for psychiatric treatment together with optimal conditions for research, education, knowledge sharing and usage of modern technologies in the course of treatment.

To create a safe environment for the patients the wards are decorated with inspiration from dormitory rooms. Light, fresh air and visibility has been considered in the design as an active part of the recovery of the patients.

Set according to the rhythm of daylight Tunable White will support the circadian rhythm for both patients and personnel. The color spectrum at the light goes from 2700 to 6000 Kelvin. The warm red and yellow colors is around 2700 Kelvin and the cold blue nuances are around 6000 Kelvin.

The project is designed with displaced units which secures that all sections has a direct exit to a sunny and private courtyard area without having overhead sections creating shadows.

In general, the visual view has been in focus – in the personnel department a glass atrium creates openness for the patients and an overview for the personnel.

Security is important which means that all installations and joints are checked to make sure that objects can’t be hidden.

The hospital is built as a traditional hospital with flexible solutions. What complicate the processes is that the building is build in the middle of the lot while the existing hospital is in operation. This has led to many considerations about the logistics in connection with noise, transport etc.

At first existing constructions are demolished, afterwards the site development is started in this phase all contaminated soil is being removed and cables get rerouted. At the end the new hospital department is being build.

The project is expected to be completed in 2023.

The Opal

The Opal becomes the Association of Engineers IDA's new landmark at Kalvebod Brygge. The light and floating expression of the extension has come into being on the basis of a design principle developed in collaboration between Dorte Mandrup Architects and Søren Jensen.

The building will include conference hall, restaurant and a partly outdoor amphitheater building.

The opal is built between two existing buildings as a cantilever double-chamber wood and steel grid construction.

The entire structure works statically as a four-pillar slope bridge. These pylons follow the double-curved surface and assemble into a common point at the top. The four pylons are supported by a double-set V-shaped column placed under the main structure. The grid surface and adjoining floor slab are suspended in diagonal drawbars that are anchored to the curved pylons. Horizontal and vertical joints are established between the diagonals, which support the double-curved surface.

The facade is formed with triangular fields that alternate between open and closed, which helps ensure even distribution of daylight including a water and sky view.

On the outside, an ETFE cloth is provided, which is illuminated by LED diode lights, which ensures an even and warm light during the day and in the evening a more spectacular lighting.

Vrå Public School and Children House

Vrå Public School and Children House is a flexible building who contains many functions such as school, public service, gym and community activities.

The school heart is a central room, where the concept for the constructions is to illustrate the forest as a part of the building. The nature is also reflected in the chosen materials and use of trees as sun shading. To do this we have made simulations of the thermal and visual indoor climate including daylight.

The building is ventilated by  mechanical- and natural ventilation as supplement when necessary. It is a building for the citizens which will be used all day long. It is important that the usage of energy for ventilation can be regulated. The use of energy is going to reflect the usage of the building.

The school is going to be DGNB Gold Certified. To reduce the buildings impact at the environment wood will be used in facades and for the roof at the heart of the building. Timber is Co2 neutral in relation to the impact at the environment. The stabilizing cores and slabs are in-situ, which gives very flexible rooms.

Nyborg Castle

Nyborg Castle is a unique tale about Denmark. It is an active curator, the Agency for Culture and Palaces, A P Møller's fund and Realdania, who are responsible for the realization of this project. This project is the largest restoration project in Denmark since the restoration of Koldinghus.

It is the first time in the history of Denmark, where permission has been given to build a new wing on top of the existing ruins. The former foundation has been utilized in some places where a statics consideration has estimated that the foundation can carry the weight.

The project is a classic restoration of the historical royal wing and the oldest part of the watch tower, where the heritage is preserved, maintained and restored.

To the south and east, new buildings are being added - a new exhibition wing and palisade, which is built with respect for the old royal wing. In addition, the watch tower is restored to its original height.

When the castle opens, the royal wing will form the framework for a modern presentation of the history, using the latest technology to create an overall experience of the castle.

Artful engineering

With almost surgical precision, Pile foundations has been carried out underneath the exhibition wing. By this method all ancient monuments are preserved. The pile foundation is a combination of concrete pile who carries the load barring structures and screw piles that carry the secondary elements.

Another technical discipline has been the museum's room, which is secured by the standard National Indemnity, where there has been great technical awareness in terms of both the protection of theft and the preservation of the exhibited objects.

A modern, slim and light high rise at 144m will be placed near an old industrial building at the harbor. The link between the lower industrial building and the main building is important for both the high rise and the surrounding building's functionality.

The building is visually 3 triangular volumes stacked on top of each other and facing in 3 different directions. Each volume has a glass facade that gives views of Aarhus city and sea.

The building is traditionally built as an in situ concrete building with a centrally located core and flat floor slabs that are resting on columns along the facade. The high rise is founded on a thick base, supported by approx. 50m deep drilled piles with a diameter of 1.2m. The high rise are going to be in close connection with the existing building and the public road along the quayside, which is solved with an optimized and unconventional solution, with a 1.2m secant piles of wall, each 3-4. pile is about 50m deep. The Secant piles of wall can thus act as both temporary wall and permanent basement wall and carry the load from the above 38 floors.

Fire safety is ensured according to new evacuation principles, where both stairs and lifts can be used for evacuation. The evacuation is controlled zone-divided, so the floors closest to the fire are evacuated first. Stairs, lifts and rooms in the evacuation area are kept smoke free by overpressure ventilation, thus ensuring both escape routes for persons to be evacuated and firefighting procedures.

Furthermore, seawater cooling is envisaged to ensure a great indoor climate and a concept for the collection and use of rainwater with green concern.

Mindet 6 is a high-rise project, where all engineering disciplines are challenged early in the process and the experience in Denmark is few compared to the United States. The internationally renowned engineering company Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) have been helping with professional back-and-forth and they have praised the project material during their quality assurance of the project.

Mindet 6 becomes Aarhus' new landmark, with a public restaurant at the 38th floor with a sky view over Aarhus.

Hotel Scandic Spectrum

Hotel Scandic Spectrum is a very flexible hotel building in terms of both structures and services. The building is designed to meet 2020 energy targets according to the Danish building regulations as well as achieve BEEAM Excellent for sustainability. For cooling, seawater is combined with central cooling. The building's double facades feature integrated dynamic solar shading. Vents in the top and bottom allows heat to be retained in the winter and vented in the summer. The office floors can be night-cooled via natural ventilation.

The office building is located close to Copenhagen harbour, and the two underground parking floors are therefore designed as watertight structures.

Fertin Pharma A/S

The factory Fertin Pharma started as a chewing gum factory (Dandy), and is owned by the same family. Today the production is almost entirely manufactured in the factory in Vejle.

The factory produces medical chewing gum, mainly Nicotine chewing gum, that are exported worldwide.

The production is performed as a medical production, which demands that all of the factories systems are classified as a clean room in different categories. Commodity, production and production facilities are continuously approved of the Danish GMP-system and the American FDA-authorities.

Clean room, and construction of facilities therefor, places great demands on surfaces, ventilation, product handling facilities etc., and when a room is finished, it must be checked and documented much more closely than for normal construction.

One of the methods that are applied to Fertin Pharma is the construction of "clean room boxes in the building". By using this construction method, it is achieved that all the installations can be fed into the spaces where it is desired. While all installations can be serviced without interfering with the production of the room.

NAU – New Aalborg University hospital

The New Aalborg University hospital (NAU) is 170.000 m2 and currently the largest build in Denmark. The hospital has 581 beds, 32 operating theatres and an ultramodern central sterile supply department to support the activities in the operating theatres. It is a build that makes it possible to gather most of the functions that today are at Aalborg University Hospital.

A connection between science and hospital
The hospital area is joint with the Service City. The purpose of the Service City is to support the operation of the new University hospital, psychiatry, oncology (cancer treatment) and facilities to the Faculty for Social Studies at Aalborg university. In the 25.000 m2 that is connected to the university hospital there are among other things auditoriums where the university and the hospitals scientists can communicate their research. Søren Jensen is sub-consultant to Indigo Consortium.

The New University Hospital

DNU is Denmark's largest hospital project, and Søren Jensen is a proud part of the consortium, Rådgivergruppen DNU, where we are responsible for the design and planning. We became part of the consortium having built Skejby hospital and because we understand how to participate in broader context. Therefore, we were able to help characterize the main concept by creating a unique technical and logistical floor, which provides the optimum operating conditions for clinical focused functions. The floor also ensures integration with the existing buildings and creates flexible conditions for the hospital's development for years to come.

As specialists, we have among other things, implemented the largest HI-FOG water mist as well as develop energy concepts which have helped meet the required sustainability demands.

Red Cross

Outside the addition to the Red Cross building at Blegdamsvej in Copenhagen there has been created an urban space shaped as a large staircase with terraces. On the inside – under the “stairs” – there is a significant and raw space for meetings and conferences.

The steps and risers are used as a folded flat surface which gives a construction height and a stiffness that makes it possible to create large span and use few internal pillars.

The stairs seem like a large disc that is fasten by the lowest step. This makes it possible to use slim pillars along the two open facades towards the existing building. FEM analysis has been used to handle the calculation and to use the folded geometry. The building is in in-situ concrete to attain a static connection between steps and risers. The entire folded concrete disc is visible from the inside of the building and it appears with a raw look.

All technical installations are integrated in the building. We have used displacement ventilation – the large sitting area shaped as a stair inside the building is used to diffuse injection to the large room. The extraction device is likewise hidden in a few places at the top of the room.

Groundwater lowering with retarding basins has been made to secure the building against heavy rain.

JYSK Park - Soccer Stadium

JYSK Park at Silkeborg is a new soccer stadium with room for 10,000 spectators and a main building at approximately 6,000 m2 for VIP-lounge, club facilities, administration, café etc.

The main building is in three floors including a cellar. The tribune is having steel frames that is supported by constrained concrete columns down towards the field. The placement of the columns and the level of the field makes it possible to follow the soccer players from the ground level. The main building also has an entrance to the tribune at the 2. Floor and cantilevered tribunes at the 3. Floor.

The roof construction at the main building has a longitudinal curved roof. This leads to a reduction of the height in the rooms at each side of the building. These rooms are used for the technical installations. The soccer field and the tribunes are placed at a level that provides an intense soccer experience. .

Shelter for Agathe Tyche

Agathe Tyche, the Greek God for luck and coincidence has been the source of inspiration to the pavilion. The pavilion is created as a celebration to the European Capital of Culture 2017’s motto ‘Let’s Rethink’.

At a museum the artist Erik A. Frandsen saw a shrine made in honor for Agathe Tyche, his plan was to incorporate this shrine as a part of his exhibition ‘Haiti’. But beforehand he was contacted by Søren Jensen about a collaboration. The plan was to rethink a pavilion together with Galleri Profilen. He welcomed the coincidence and said yes to the collaboration which has resulted in a pavilion. The pavilion was a part of the exhibition ‘Haiti’ as a shelter for Agathe Tyche.

The pavilion has been formed using computer glitches, which suited Erik A. Frandsen’s wish to pay tribute to coincidence. Computer glitches is a form of error which occur in computers and hardware, this creates unintended and at times deformed results. This idea has inspired us to create a program that can load and analyze Erik A. Frandsen’s drawings from Haiti. The shape has been created by adjusting the program to use the color information’s from the drawings to create a clear and undefined form, when the program loads a selected “key drawing”. The undeform shape created from the “key drawing” is a stern. When Erik’s drawings from Haiti are imported something unintended is happening - the stern is being deformed.

The pavilion has been exhibited at Brandt’s – Museum for Art and Visual Culture in Odense and Randers Art Museum.

Great Northern Club House

The architecture at Great Northern Club House belongs to the most outstanding in shape and level of detail. The roof structure is shaped and designed as a fan with both vertical and horizontal displaced peaks. The building’s façade and all internal walls are constructed with large glass sections. The elegant timber roof structure floats on cantilevered steel columns protruding from a natural stone wall.

The significant expression of the roof is underlined by large eaves that contributes to an efficient sunlight protection of the large glass sections.

The roof structure is a special structure inspired by origami. The roof consists of 12 + 12 triangular planes as shown on the photos and visualization. It is an example of an exceptional timber structure, where the strengths can be seen in the fan-shape inside that branch out in the pillars.

The technical plants are to a great extent designed specially to live up to the architectural demands of “invisibility”.

The client has eye for the details. It has therefore been necessary to think creatively as consulting engineers to live up to the wishes from the client and the architects.

Ku.Be

Ku.Be is a cultural center with many functions. This is reflected in a flexible structural solution, shifting internal spaces and great visual variation in spatial experience - not only on plan but also throughout the height of the building. The building is pierced with holes of different geometries and has walls with inclined faces of varying shape, which extend over several floors at a time. Structurally, this has been possible by the use of structural elements with a high elasticity, such as arches, steel-concrete composite floors as well as single and double spanning slabs. All concrete is cast on site for added robustness. The services are designed with maximum flexibility ensuring optimum operation throughout all the different functional zones.