In addition to the rail lines at Dybbølsbro station, the cactus towers were attracted to the sky and cut jagged profiles against the sky of Copenhagen. Designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group (Big), the apparently not fully marked microleben, mark the edge of Vesterbro, a former industrial zone that is now undergoing a new wave of development.
The double towers rise from an elevated green plateau – about 65 feet above the street, which extends a neighboring motorway and Ikea. Two gigantic biophilic figures are mutual in a proposed movement game. With balconies that are arranged in different orientations, their protruding, enigmatic facades are amusing and difficult to follow. They seem almost to beg for the reverse engineering.
For those who are inclined to investigate, the process in which these forms were derived is actually quite simple. In an isometric series on the company's website, two generic tower volumes rise from an increased floor level with uniform and repeating floor slabs. Then curved blue arrows appear on their bases and signal the rotation. The lowest plates begin to turn and the arrows multiply. Next, the rotation climbs the height of the towers and creates cheating terraces and irregular, jagged profiles. Finally, the arrows disappear and show a clear snapshot of the final shapes.
More specifically, the 80-meter tower were designed as a series of square floor plates that were systematically rotated relatively relatively. A typical floor plan shows a square scope that rotates 22.5 degrees per level and creates the effect of different, christening triangles along the tower edges.
In the middle of the plan, a hexadecagon – the core tower – is defined the management of the housing. The 16-page figure contains 16 wedge-shaped micro units per soil, about 376 quadrat foot, with built-in furniture that is located for sleep, cooking, eating and working.
With 16 straight perimeter modules (in contrast to the continuous curvature of a circle), the hexadezagonal shape can be rationalized as a pre -made, uniform system. Only two types of balcony – relaxed and small – reflect in four variations and are repeated in the entire project.
The balconies use a steel structure that attaches to storage holders within the prefabricated plate of the tower core and limited the thermal bridging to the connecting points. A curved ring jet connects the structure along the plate scope and supports the freely balancing balconies.
The meeting was first prototyped by Big Engineering for a different housing estate for students in Esbjerg, Denmark, to their hotel apartments in 2021. In both projects, balcony modules create an illusion of the twisting when they are seen from most viewpoints. When approaching the base, the repeating pattern of Cantilevers has a focus on and the towers seem to be more stable.
The vertical separators between balcony units shot the gaps between incorrectly oriented levels. These divisors give shape to the increase profiles and give the horizontal system both nuances and a feeling of continuity. Thin aluminum railings – zelemic enough to avoid disturbing the overall picture – pulled and turn to connect strange shapes.
“The facade is based on a logic of efficiency and repetition without getting into monotony” A. “Every floor is essentially the same, but the balconies rotate with every level and create the twisting visual effect with identical components.”
At the Copenhagen location, the balconies are distributed in aluminum panels with a cereal-like finish, which is almost concrete from afar. Due to the finish, the balcony slopes appear more integral for the structure than it actually – a movement that feels intuitive and corresponds to the logic of the Big's diagrams.
The hexadecagonal tower balancers balanced the sharp expression of the metal and is dressed in striped fields of vertical wooden lambs and heats the overall tone while examining the bathroom window of every living unit. The wood fits the dark, reflective glass of the doors and windows The rental The envelope is a layered, recessive quality all around.
From all over the harbor – or even better, online in a leries roll – the towers look down on their playfully created surroundings from zigzag paths, various plants and large circular cavities. While the protruding plates have flattened out in the perspective, the facade begins to read like thin horizontal scaffolding tapes – flexible, in contrast to the more typically more static behavior of the permanent construction. Between these lines, handing over shadows fill the wrinkles and recesses, emphasizing a geometry that somehow always seems animated.