‘Architecture as landscape’
Designed whilst studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Denmark the proposal consisted of a multipurpose hall and cafe, kayak club and a spa and sauna catering to the Danish tradition of winter bathing.
The site was located along a sprawling and rather desolate coastline just outside the town centre of Fredericia in Denmark. The massiveness of this landscape became a major theme in the project. The design response was to try and merge the building’s as much as possible with the landscape, whilst still remaining as functional as possible.
The goal of the design was to make users feel both part of the landscape as well as being dwarfed by it. The organic nature of the design offering contrast to the rational order of Fredericia’s grid based town centre.
Designed as part of coursework at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2010.
