#c.f. moller

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Complex buildings. Learning systems

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VILLA U

C.F. Møller

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C.F. Moller, Copenhagen, 2006

This intervention is located in an obsolete port area which borders the consolidated urban fabric of Copenhagen. The urban planning operation, very similar in natureto that of project 21 rezones the docks areas. This estabilishes a density that is the same as in the city around it. 

Nordlyset is a six-storey, white-polished block which forms a clear, angular and smooth colume in this densely built-up district. The basic idea of the urban plan was to create a new urban district with sufficient density to estabilish a genuine and vital city atmosphere. 

The shape of the building was sculpted to assure that the flats towards the west and the courtyard receive the great amount of sunlight, and have views of the Sound. The large breaks and twists in the buildings' body towards both the north and the south, not only help to create dynamics in the urban plan, but these physical "twists" are specifically used to secure the best possible light and views for all apartments. The garden's lushness is important in order ti form a peaceful, surprising, fertile "organic" space as a contrast to the surrounding disciplined, "hard" and very urban city.

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Ferry Terminal

C.F. Moller