This semester started with some workshops, these are strips from one of them. The strips mark the beginning of this semester project. Our site is the old brewery Carlsberg in the middle of Copenhagen. They have moved their production to Jutland and therefore, a whole new part of the city is to be planned. This is our concept for the building on our given site, we start from the winning proposal made by Entasis.
Credits to my group 3E!
The latest project from school. This semester I had chosen an Institute called Cultural Heritage. I find the thoughts very interesting: how to look at an existing building and look at the qualities in the building itself, the surroundings, the story it tells and then make a descision based upon your architectural believes. You can tackle it in many different ways: you can choose not to do anything and let the building die in beauty or you can choose to completely transform the building and not be afraid to show contemporary elements. My approach was to look at the qualities I wanted to keep as they were, and look at what actions needed to be done in order to support my new function. From an old farmhouse (in my case the side building) to a creative studio, which would activate the local area. The house is situated in a small village called Bro with only 15-20 small houses and farms. Nothing happens there, in comparison to what actually did happen years ago. The area was full of life, business, shops and was known for fruit and hops. The area is now dead and I wanted to change that.
I have kept the facades with the different door- and windowtypes, the yellow brick, slate roof and the old chimney in the north building. I am using that as a fireplace where you can work with glass and pottery. I have removed the ceiling and completely transformed the inner structure of the plan from small, dark rooms to a big double height room where air and light flows. To smaller rooms are shielded from the big studio by milky glass, which shows off contour and movement in the building.I have kept the ceiling in the south building to use as a loft to dry the hops for brewing. The floor in the north building is glossy concrete. I isolate in the roof and in the floor ao I keep my brick walls free.
The new extension between the main house and the north house embraces the two buildings and will serve as a meeting place for the two functions. It is also my new main entrance to the creative workshop. It is light and subordinates the two existing buildings.
The project is very detail oriented, and I have never used so much time on so little! But I think I have learned a lot and will use some of the conservation theories and approach to an existing building in my future work.
Om dots.
dots. er små og store hårspænder, hårbøjler, øreringe og brocher der alle har prikker tilfælles. De er farverige, grafiske og kan live ethvert outfit op. Jeg blev selv inspireret til at lave dem, fordi jeg går meget i sort og godt kunne tænke mig en masse glade farver. De er lavet i et blødt skummateriale, der hedder mosgummi. Farverne er sirligt udvalgte, lagt oven på sort, grå eller hvid baggrund og nøje klippet ud og slebet fine i kanten. Der er ikke nikkel i øreringene eller i hårspænderne.
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Vær opmærksom på, hvordan du transporterer dots., fordi at de er lidt følsomme overfor tryk pga. det bløde materiale. Det ville være ærgerligt, hvis de fik nogle grimme mærker.
Du kan nemt vaske dem med vand og sæbe (forsigtigt), hvis de er blevet beskidte. Limen er vandfast.
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Nature and the City
I have kept the green idea from Kulturholmen, but I have also brought the city to the island. From the west, when you come from Silkeborg along Gudenåen the first thing you see is on the island a green park at the tip, which tells about the landscape, the island is surrounded by. In the middle of the island there is a continuous green belt that winds its way through and goes out through the openings in the building mass and finally dissolves in small islets. The islets are purely natural, no settlement. The Islets serve as nature experience, a place kayakers and sailers can stay at. It can operate for tourists and the locals who may have their own excursion place. Surrounding the green landscape are buildings that have their backs against the water, where they also form the streets and boardwalk for pedestrians and cyclists.
Building Structure
The buildings are inspired by existing buildings in the city of Randers. I decided not to work with a new structure in the area, because the new structure easily could alienate itself from the existing structure. The building typology is very lively and creates interesting spaces where it embraces the green belt in different ways. Facades have different nature to give them an identity. I have been inspired by the exsisting building in the medieval part of Randers City, and I took swatches of old buildings to make a color chart. This connects the old Randers, together with the new structure on the island. Randers also gets a new, exciting and vibrant skyline. Buildings are mixed residential, commercial (shops, café), and various cultural institutions (galleries, museums, workshops)
Infrastructure
In order to give the island a different expression than the busy mainland, it is limited to a one-way conveyor belt, where the bridges connects. You can see it as one big roundabout or rotary motion. This creates a quieter and greener environment. The interior is car-free, in part, except for crossings. There are parking garages to the east and you can park under some of the houses.
Sleth modernism group workshop in the beginning of 2009. We had a week to come up with a suggestion how to build in the area around the harbour in Randers. We made a lot of analysis of the area and went there several times. Our idea is a concept called “Kulturholmen”.
Randers needs Kulturholmen, because it contributes to the city with a centralization of the cultural offerings, the city has, while it draws nature into the urban space and makes it useful in urban life. The berth sides become densely developed to provide a strong image as an urban space, like for example Central Park. This is to prepare Randers to the future so the city does not spread into the countryside and eventually form small satellite cities, but instead rises in height and density, with respect for the existing skyline in Randers. We call it Slow living and we’re looking car traffic around the city, so pedestrians and cyclists occupy the space. Kulturholmen becomes a garden in the urban space.
A committee selected three winner projects, and they were the base for our further work. Each had to select a concept to refine individually. I will upload my individual project later on.
We won 2nd prize 
A single family house near Rønde on Djursland. I call this the wedge house because of the shape. I had a solid form and then began to pull out some pieces, and where I removed something there was a wedge shapes non-room left. The wedge I removed was where I would put glass and open up to the exterior.
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Yet another old project from the beginning of 2008. I started with diffent sorts of landscape analysis to know the area and then started to form a building that had to have the function of a nature center. I decided to place my building right next to the forest and in a bowl shaped area near a small stream. The area required some extra thoughts on the design and therefore my building is elevated above ground and is standing on pillars. My center consists of two buildings which are situated on a bridge. They are pulled apart and an area in the middle is a new room that can be used in extension of the two existing rooms inside. The small building contains a kitchen and an area, where you can sit and eat your food and participate in different workshops. The biggest building contains toilets and an exhibition area and can be used for presentations. The shape lifts up the building from the bowl shaped area. The bridge can have a lot of different activities outside and be a platform to new activities in the nature. My thoughts on materials: roof and facade in zinc and the bridge in a hardwearing wood.
Straw Bale Workshop from Thomas Lillevang on Vimeo.
I was together with a group of students from Aarhus School of Architecture, we worked together with some skilled straw bale workmen from Friland. The project was to build a sauna in a weekend out of straw bale, clay, strips, sea shells and a wooden frame. But the Danish weather teased, and I can say that straw bale+clay+heavy rain= bad combo! So this is just the beginning… we will finish the sauna in a few weeks. But it was fun and what a great experience!
If you are a bit curious about what Friland is all about, then I would encourage you to go there. NOW. It´s a fantastic place, where they experiment with different kinds of building types and materials. Really inspirational.
This was made in 2008. The task was to work with stairs and work with stairs as a main element in an abandoned brewery in the northern part of Aarhus called Trøjborg.
I decided to put a strong element in the middle of the room: a glass box containing the stairs, which would lead people from the floor beneath my project area and up to a green roof. At night the top of the glas box would be a light box. The glass box brings light into the room, it works as a decorative element and has a function: to get people from a to b. The stair case would be a very simple steel construction padded in a dark rubber. The floor should be in dark granite. I thought the building as a green project house, which could work as a café/education/project area and a house where people could come and hang out. A green community center. Inside the glass box there would be green climbers of different sorts.
Project made in the beginning of 2008.
We made a model of a postwar house from 1947, designed by the deceased architect Knud Krøll. This house is very famous, because it is one of many of the same type, which uses cheap, local materials like brick, tile, wood etc. There were also restrictions concerning size, cellar etc. Houses made by cheap and durable materials were very popular and still are, because it is good workmanship. We had to make an individual written assignment on this building.
Read on (in danish)