Dutch architects MVRDV and Danish co-architects ADEPT have won a competition to design the Rødovre Skyscraper in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The 116 metre tall tower will include apartments, a hotel, retail, offices, and a public park and plaza.
The stacked building consists of “pixels”, each 60 metres square, which are arranged around the central core of the building.
“The constellation of the pixels allows flexibility in function; the building can be transformed by market forces,” say the architects. “Flexibility for adaptation is one of the best sustainable characteristics of a building.”
The following is from MVRDV:
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MVRDV and ADEPT win Copenhagen high-rise competition with ‘Sky Village’ design
The municipality of Rødovre, an independent municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark, announced today MVRDV and co-architect ADEPT winner of the design competition of the Rødovre Skyscraper. The 116 meter tall tower accommodates apartments, a hotel, retail and offices. A public park and a plaza are also part of the privately funded scheme.
The new skyscraper with a total surface of 21,688m2 will be located at Roskildevej, a major artery East of the centre of Copenhagen. It is after the Frøsilos MVRDV’s second project in Copenhagen.
The skyscraper’s shape reflects Copenhagen’s historical spire and present day high-rise blending in the skyline of the city, it further combines the two distinctive typologies of Rødovre, the single family home and the skyscraper in a vertical village. Consideration of these local characteristics leads to Copenhagen’s first contemporary high-rise.
Responding to unstable markets the design is based on a flexible grid, allowing alteration of the program by re-designating units. These ‘pixels’ are each 60m2 square and arranged around the central core of the building, which for flexibility consists of three bundled cores allowing separate access to the different program segments.
On the lower floors the volume is slim to create space for the surrounding public plaza with retail and restaurants; the lower part of the high rise consists of offices, the middle part leans north in order to create a variety of sky gardens that are terraced along the south side. This creates a stacked neighbourhood, a Sky Village.
From this south orientation the apartments are benefitting. The top of the building will be occupied by a hotel enjoying the view towards Copenhagen city centre.
The constellation of the pixels allows flexibility in function; the building can be transformed by market forces, however at this moment it is foreseen to include 970m2 retail, 15,800m2 offices, 3,650m2 housing and 2,000m2 hotel and a basement of 13,600m2 containing parking and storage. Flexibility for adaptation is one of the best sustainable characteristics of a building. Besides this the Sky Village will also integrate the latest technologies according to the progressive Danish environmental standards.
Furthermore the plans include a greywater circuit, the use of 40% recycled concrete in the foundation and a variety of energy producing devices on the façade. A public park adjacent to the Sky Village is part of the project and will be refurbished with additional vegetation and the construction of a ‘superbench’, a meandering public path and bench. A playground, picnic area and exercise areas for elderly citizens are also part of the plan.
Lead architect MVRDV and co-architect ADEPT Architects won the competition from BIG, Behnisch and MAD. Winy Maas and Jacob van Rijs present the plan today in Copenhagen together with Anders Lonka and Martin Krogh from local office Adept Architects, Dutch engineering firm ABT and Søren Jenssen act as consultants for the project.
Earlier MVRDV realised the Frøsilos / Gemini Residence in the port of Copenhagen: a residential project marking a new way in refurbishment of old silo’s which was highly acclaimed and received international awards.
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Posted by Matylda Krzykowski
November 4th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I dig! Yet, it is so BIG look-a-like….
November 4th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
no comment….
November 4th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
cool project – not very attractive, but cool none the less.
i wonder what the proposal by big looked like because mvrdv’s winning project indeed looks like it’s been inspired by some of the works by bjarke’s group…
and the funniest thing – the illustration before the last one, the pic which shows the merging of cph’s historical and modern towers, it’s been taken from big’s scala tower presentation!
(www.big.dk –> scala)
big has already become a major inspiration for even the most prestigeous architects! and it’s not a bad thing, not at all (:
p.s. – i sooooo hope big will win the tallinn town hall competiton
November 4th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Tetris!
November 4th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I hope NAT architects win the Tallinn Town Hall Competition
November 4th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
reminds me of OMA’s tower going up in NYC, formally. Its a different twist to the capsule tower in tokyo. with the economy the way it is in many countries this may be a direction architecture starts to lean more towards. form finding through hyper rationalizing inorder to get money out of the developer/clients pockets.
November 4th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
also reminds me of OMA’s proposal of housing complex in Singapore and the skyscrapers proposal in Rassia.
anybody recalled?
November 4th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
most meaningless diagrams ever… an easy way to get worldfamous
M+V+R+D+V = BIG
November 4th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
BIG look-a-like….my ass. It is all Koolhaas’s takeaway..
November 4th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Its such a BIG way to present a project…… but anyways…Its like the master is now learning from its student..
Cool for BIG
……….one last thing….OMA and MVRDV were always the one with the boxes, but now everyone is doing….if not, just check H&dM proposal for a tower in Paris!!!
November 4th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
And the dutch create yet another colossal toy.
November 4th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
it’s like MVRDV doing a BIG that’s doing a MVRDV that’s doing a OMA that’s putting a pile of boxes together into a building. I like it.
November 4th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
BIG inspired? MVRDV was doing big before there was a BIG (and OMA was doing it before that)…
November 4th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
True, MVRDV have been doing GREAT work for AGES! and looks like things are continuing. Very nice!
November 5th, 2008 at 12:18 am
oma
gazprom
nice
November 5th, 2008 at 1:22 am
HJ you nailed it!
November 5th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Very nice
November 5th, 2008 at 7:31 am
It seems they are going for an expression of engineering knowledge? I think the most appealing image is the night shot made to look like a number of glowing lanterns stacked up to form a building, speaks a lot more about the layering of the design IMO. However I feel the daytime images leave something lacking? Is that just me? Big fan of MVRDV but not sure of this one just yet.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Architecture is getting more and more embarrassing.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:53 am
they all owe it to the commies:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jl_antik/2753152982/
November 5th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Did not OMA New York do a design that is EXACTLY this?
November 5th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Some very deep plans in there. Perhaps those are the office floors, but plan depth counts against future flexibility. Still, the massing has a nice ambiguity: is the building tall or wide? Hard to say.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Who gives a -….- if the building is wide or tall? Its ambiguity is just embarrassing.
November 5th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
seems like the foamcutter is not the main Tool to find forms anymore.
…eventhough no one knows how the inside works…
all this fascination by structuralism is back.
Had a teacher at university that totally tortured us with projects only from such a mind in the late 90ies and now its back in fashion!
November 5th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
very creative..and espectacular
November 5th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Huuumm,… have architects dried up their ideas already?
November 5th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
hahahahah it’s ssssssssssssssssooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oma
November 5th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
not only does it look like a pre-credit crunch project, the developers http://www.brainstones.dk have just closed down their web site…
November 6th, 2008 at 12:52 am
well, we all must hope that uncertain market forces don’t eliminate those green terraces from the roof top platforms – if that happens, this will surely become a skyscaper ghetto ;0
November 6th, 2008 at 1:15 am
I like it. #1, utility was a primary issue (obviously), but although it looks a bit blunt when one considers the view from the inside, the building is great. Soooooo many corner rooms. Corner rooms are a big deal, big view. That raises the value right there. Plus ther eis all that garden roof space available to so many. It might not be all smooth and curvy but at least they didn’t ignore utility so that it would look smooth and curvy. Smooth and curvy isn’t art, it’s smooth and curvy. Remember this.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:08 am
I like the massing, but urbanisticly it seems a little bit out of scale compared to the single family houses beside it.
in terms of references check out “habitat” build by moshe safdie in 1967.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Even the graphic representation is so BIG. Well unless someone can prove me otherwise!
November 6th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
OMA anyone?
November 7th, 2008 at 3:04 am
The ratio of surface to volume must be pretty bad.
But who cares, right???:-(
November 7th, 2008 at 11:48 am
are the big ones seriously bored of cooking up those complex,para-normal concepts now?…..
or are they grown up enough, that they feel it might be embarassing for their colossal brand-image to design n build crazy building……..???
whatever happened to dagmar-richter, nox, morphosis…..!!!
guess…the box is in again!…..good!..phew!!
November 7th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
The developer Brainstones debt to Roskilde Bank was one of the main reasons for the bankruptcy of the danish bank. Combine this with the general fear of tall buildings in Copenhagen and it is clear why this is a drawingboard project.
November 7th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
HOw did they manage to jack BIG and OMA at the same time?
Keep it up carbon_mvedver!
November 8th, 2008 at 1:59 am
I like the functionality this presents. The cubic apartments jutting out give it lots of green roof space, lots of living space, and any time recycled concrete can be used is good. also what is great is the kind of illusion it gives; it really seems as if its a cubic outgrowth, a pixelated tree, something reminds me of tetris. Really is like Habitat 67 40 years on.
Id like to see the space reserved for commercial on bottom and residential on top, but they have planned otherwise. but really great work i think.
November 9th, 2008 at 9:50 am
good job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 10th, 2008 at 4:50 am
wow, can’t wait to see it
November 12th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
ok..but, what about all other 3-4 story houses all around it?
November 12th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
This idea not new, but looks interestingly
November 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
i just can’t belive my eyes… ‘u just could b crazy… i saw this project years ago… and it was made by OMA.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:32 am
The winner takes it all! It´s all about winning… Congrats to MVRDV and ADEPT…
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
This is a copy of the VERTICAL CAMPUS of OMA in Tokyo. It is not very well known project. chek it out at OMAs website. It is THE SAME.
and by the way, how could some of you say that MVRDV is copying bIG??? if they look alike is because BIG-PLOT-JDS projects ar ALL copies or “inspired” by MVRDV or OMA. they dont have a single project you could say is “original” from them.
Jesus! the ones that think MVRDV copies BIG either work at BIG, or is younger that 25 and has missed the 90s!!
open a bokk of architecture before the succes of BIG….
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:28 am
nice work ,the massing is trimandous,but tell me,how much is green architecture
November 24th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Copy copy. THIS IS IS NOT A COPY…
If this project is build it would be the first one of its kind. It is a very clever highrise generated from the complexity of the danish suburban context. A context which is very different from Tokyo and the center of Copenhagen.
January 5th, 2009 at 4:29 am
not too sure, but did MVRDV do any of their ‘mountains’ pre-BIG? Because that eco-city project that MVRDV is building looks amazingly like a rip of BIG’s lego model. Obviously BIG rips a lot from MVRDV esp on representation, but I would have attributed the mountain to them.
the diagrams are just a continuation of OMA’s idea of lazy representation. usually i’m all for it. this time it doesn’t really say much. OMA’s New York project is better. But this is still nice.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I think there was a mega-structure in Sim City 3000 that looked like this?