MORE ABOUT: Mountain Dwellings – Copenhagen, Denmark

MORE ABOUT:
Mountain Dwellings
Ørestads Boulevard 55, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark

Size: 33,000 m²

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Credits₁

Completed: Summer 2008

Architect: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
Project Architect: Jakob Lange
Project Leader: Finn Nørkjær
Project Manager: Jan Borgstrøm
Construction Manager: Henrick Poulsen
Contributers: Annette Jensen, Dariusz Bojarski, Dennis Rasmussen, Eva Hviid-Nielsen, Henrick Poulsen, Joao Vieira Costa, Jørn Jensen, Karsten V. Vestergaard, Karsten Hammer Hansen, Leon Rost, Louise Steffensen, Malte Rosenquist, Mia Frederiksen, Ole Elkjær-Larsen, Ole Nannberg, Roberto Rosales Salazar, Rong Bin, Sophus Søbye, Søren Lambertsen, Wataru Tanaka
Collaborator: JDS: Moe & Brødsgaard, Freddy Madsen Rådgivende Ingeniører ApS

Engineer: Moe & Brødsgaard
Main Contractor: Høpfner A/S
Cosntruction: DS Eclobyg A/S, PH Montage

Techical Ground System: M.J. Eriksen
Window Company: SA facades
Carpenter: PPE Enterprise
Steel Work: HB-trapper
Roof Construction: Montak
Outer Facade: PPE Enterprise
Internal Carpenter Work in the P-House: KLUG
Technical Services: ENCO
Electrician Contractor: EL-team Fyn
Ventilation: Klimodan
Wooden Work on Terraces: Drewcom
Autorailing: Dansk Auto-værn
Perforated Steel Facade: Nettoperforering
Paint: Svend Aage Sørensen

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Materials₁

Outer Facade: 4mm of Reynobond aluminum sanwich-plate
Windows: Jatoba wooden frame in the apartments, wooden/aluminum in commercial
Floor system: Oak wooden floor with floor heating system
Ceilings: Painted concrete
Perforated facade: 3 mm of raw alu-plate
Wood on terrace: IPE hardwood non-treated
Bath: Completed bath units from EJ-badekabiner

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8,000 m² site with a goal of 2/3 parking (parking company had plans for a garage on the site₂) and 1/3 living space. In picture 3, high point is 32 m. Total of 80 apartments and 480 parking spots.

“The design also offers more practical, energy-saving advantages: the parking area’s height encourages natural ventilation, and the large southeast-facing windows optimize light and passive solar energy”.₂

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‘Suburban living in urban density’. Grass is artificial.₃

‘Roof garden maintained by watering system’.₁ ‘…the planters, which are positioned to block direct views between apartments, collect rainwater to irrigate plants during the drier season’.₂

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‘North and west facades covered with perforated aluminum plates, the holes forming a reproduction of Mount Everest. At day the image resembles a rough rasterized photo. At night the facade is lit from the inside’₁.

For an image of the facade at night, see “VM Bjerget (the Mountain) by Night” by Niels M. Knudsen (N!els) of Flickr

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Garage, sloped elevator, and colored corridors to housing.

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Concept/construction video

Building’s website (Danish):
http://www.vmbjerget.dk/

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1: A + U: architecture and urbanism, 2009 Apr., n.4(463), p.62-71
2: Metropolis, 2008 Dec., v.28, n.5, p.25-26,28
3: Arkitektur DK, 2008 Sept. [i.e., Oct.?], v.52, n.7, p.[50]-[67]
4: Bjarke Ingels Group – http://www.big.dk/
5. JDS Architects – http://www.jdsarchitects.com/