Fjordenhus, an iconic structure by Studio Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann - Parametric Architecture

Fjordenhus is the archetypal gathering of Icelandic–Danish artist, known for sculpture and large-scale installation art, Olafur Eliasson. Resembling a floating castle successful Denmark‘s Vejle Fjord, Eliasson designed the gathering with his spouse designer Sebastian Behman. Fjordenhus, which volition beryllium utilized arsenic the company’s bureau building, is called KIRK KAPITAL.

Eliasson’s plan is connected to the onshore portion of the metropolis by a span and the larboard portion by an underground passage. The pedestrian span connects the visitors to the gathering from the crushed floor. This portion has views of the full harbor. The gathering has a 3-story bureau and two-story unfastened to the public.

Fjordenhus is portion of the masterplan of Vejle harbor includes filling areas, residential areas, caller scenery areas, and a ample square. Eliasson’s tract publication to the masterplan, which progressed with the contributions of a institution called Kirk Kapital, was an bureau building.

The nationalist abstraction designed for Fjordenhus is planned to proceed the quadrate designed wrong the masterplan framework. The past constituent of the route, which was designed arsenic a promenade stretching from the metropolis halfway to the fjord, is the crushed level of the building. Eliasson and his squad continued their plan processes to go a caller awesome of the larboard and the full city. This is 1 of the reasons for the unsocial and striking signifier of the building.

4 intersecting circles signifier the geometric signifier of Fjordenhus. All these masses, which are past raised and cylindrical, are carved. The cavities make a circular curve astatine 1 extremity of the masses and an elliptical fold astatine the other. The 4-cavity cylinder has glass-covered openings successful places. The openings are besides arch-shaped discharges from the mass.

Each exterior has a ceramic layout successful antithetic combinations. The bricks connected the facades are coordinated according to the magnitude of airy the facade volition receive. For example, the bluish solid bricks are mostly adjacent the structure’s floor; bluish bricks are utilized astatine their apical points. In the interior, the room’s intent determines the ceramic coordination of the facades.

Some of the bricks utilized successful the interior are perforated: they were chosen to supply ventilation of the operation and somesthesia quality.

All furnishings of Fjordenhus, which includes gathering rooms, committee units, a eating area, and a extortion terrace, was Eliasson’s design. The creator looks astatine the gathering arsenic a large-scale transportation of acquisition gained connected galore artworks and installations for himself and the studio.

Fjordenhus is the archetypal solo plan of Studio Olafur Eliasson, who antecedently appeared with the 2007 Serpentine Pavilion and Harpa Concert Hall projects.

Project Info

Architects: Studio Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann
Location: Vejle, Denmark
Year: 2009-2018
Manufacturers: HAVER & BOECKER, Kinnasand, Waagner-Biro Stahlbau AG
Engineering: COWI
Project Manager: Flemming Hoff Jakobsen, Hundsbæk & Henriksen
Acoustic Engineering: Gade & Mortensen Akustik
Environmental Engineering: Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH
Landscape Architect: Vogt Landscape
Consulting Engineer: ArtEngineering GmbH
Artist: Olafur Eliasson
Design Team: VOGT
Project Architect: Caspar Teichgräber
Local Architect: Lundgaard & Tranberg Architecture
Client: Kirk Kapital
Manager: Jørn Andreasen, Hundsbæk & Henriksen
Technical Supervision: Hundsbæk & Henriksen
Fire Counseling: Hundsbæk & Henriksen
Safety: Eggersen Miljø & Sikkerhed APS
Photography: Anders Sune Berg