Maritime Youth House

contemporaneous Danish Building design by PLOT Architects
page updated 3 Sep 2016
Design: PLOT Architects

location : Østamager, Sundby Harbour
Nye Bygning i København
Photos : Julien De Smedt :

Maritime Youth House Copenhagen

project : Maritime Youth House
location : Sundby Harbour, Copenhagen, Dk ( Amager Standvej 13 )
size : 2000 M2
Budget : 1 170 000 €
type : Invited Competition, 1st Prize
Status : completion June 2004
Client : Kvarterløft Governmental City Renewal Project, Lokale Og
Anlægsfonden, The Urban Development Fond
Collaborators : plot, JDS + BIG
Photos by Julien De Smedt :

project team :
Julien De Smedt, Bjarke Ingels, Annette Jensen, Finn Nørkjær, Henning Stüben, Jørn Jensen, Mads H Lund, Marc Jay, Nina Ter-borch
Consultants : Birch & Krogboe A/s : Jesper Gudman, Struktur

concept :
The concept of the project is that rather of using 1/4 of the project ’ s budget, in the first place allocated by the client to cleaning the pollute soil of the site, we discovered that the pollution was fleshy metals and therefore stable. so if you didn ’ t reach the grind you wouldn ’ t have to remove/clean it… we then decided to lay out a wooden deck on the entirety of the site. Thus spend money for architecture/program/effect rather than inconspicuous thriftlessness .

Two clients had to share the facilities : a voyage club and a young person house. Their desires were opposition : the youth house wanted outdoor space for the kids to play, the sweep club needed most of the site to park their boats… the build up is the literal results of our negotiations with these 2 contradictory demands : when the deck bubbles up it allows for boat memory underneath, placid letting the kids run/play above…
The inside of the build up is very basic, with one major feature : the front house, which is used as common room and where most of the casual activities take place, is more deluxe than the workshop and storage building on the back corner, but still in a very puritan way. The dispute is that the deck in the workshop is a standard grey concrete while in the community distance it ’ s a egg white concrete with egg white stones .
The presence of hard surfaces everywhere on the inside is meant as a contrast to the wooden exterior, about like an inversion of what is normally done ( wood indoor, asphalt outdoor ). This is reflecting the laterality of outdoor activities of the youth house. The actual ‘ room ’ of the Maritime Youth house IS the wooden deck… it englobes all the programs, indoor and outdoor .
photograph by Paolo Rosselli :

photograph by Mads Hilmer :

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ar+d prizewinner 2004
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