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We Are EFFEKT is an architectural office committed to designing and evolving projects for the city. We conduct assignments within the field of architecture and urbanism combining joyful design and thorough analysis into value for clients and end users. Our products range from building design, to urban planning, public spaces and landscaping. EFFEKT design is the retention of explorative and playful attitudes into seriousness. Such attitudes include curiosity, creativity, humour, joy, imagination and wonder. We believe that having these attitudes is essential to identify and create valuable new designs because they enable us to embrace the constant change of our society.
Estonian Academy of Arts The new academy building is situated in the heart of Tallinn. The building contains facilities for the departments of art, architecture, design, and art history. In addition to the academic program, the project includes a library, gallery, shop, conference facilities and a public plaza, totaling 30 000 square meters. Quote from the Jury Report: ‘The Jury voted Art Plaza as the winner of the competition because it is by far the best proposal when it comes to architectural concept, outer qualities and inner life. The project is stunningly simple and at the same time fascinatingly complex.’
Client EKA, Ministry of Culture Collaborators SEA Area 30.000 m2 Location Tallinn, Estonia Year 2008 Status 1st price, completion 2011
Gellerup TM Gellerup TM is a plan for revitalization of a unique modernist housing area in Denmark. The project is a physical, economic, social and cultural urbanization strategy for Gellerup, focusing on promoting a multicultural, multi-functional, vibrant city life. The project proposes a densification and reprogramming of the area, new local neighbourhoods, new urban centres and public spaces as well as a comprehensive new plan for the green areas. Together, these measures develop and challenge the modernist heritage with contemporary needs and challenges.
Client Municipality of Ă…rhus and Brabrand Boligforening Collaborators COWI, Kjaer og Richter Size 110 ha Location Gellerup, Ă…rhus Year 2008 Status 1st price, Ongoing
Visitors Center in Hareskoven The Visitors Center in Hareskoven offers a wide range of different functions for the many visitors to the woods. The location of the building, on a hilltop in the middle of the beautiful beech forest has inspired this landscape shaped building, carved out of forest ground and thus blending with the surrounding landscape. The roof surface is imagined as an addition the hill on which it is located, and gives visitors the opportunity to walk across the house and further into the forest. The star-shaped floor plan cuts horizontally through the hill, which means that that the ground floor of the building is horizontally aligned with the surrounding landscape in some places, and up to 1.5 meters below in others.
Project Visitors Center in Hareskoven Client Skov- & Naturstyrelsen Size 1.500 m2 Location Hareskoven, Denmark Year 2009 Status Ongoing
Grenaa Harbour The South Harbour of Grenaa is a combined fishing and industrial harbour facing changes and decrease in existing activities. The project is a strategic plan investigating and shaping future opportunities for the South Harbour. The harbour site is divided into 5 different clusters, each developed from local potentials, existing structures and economies. On the coastline we propose a blue landscape design in the shape of a marine park developing and shaping new uses and facilities on the waterfront. The marine park is an artificial barrier reef creating a rich mix of marine life and urban leisure addressing future residents as well as real estate development.
Client Municipality of Grenaa Collaborators Rambøll Size 20 ha Location Grenaa, Denmark Year 2009 Status Ongoing
Mobile Exhibition The project is an experience oriented design, based on the idea of a digital aquarium - an exhibition building which shows the salmon’s life by combining advanced display technology, education and experiences in an organic and interactive pavilion. The exhibition is designed as a continuous space which shows the four stages of the salmon’s life, so that the user gets a direct and an interactive experience.
Client Havets Hus Size 2.000 m2 Location Mobile Year 2007 Status Ongoing
Tallinn City Hall The new Town Hall in Tallinn, Estonia hosts a wide range of public services as well as the Tallinn city council and administration. The new city hall outside the historic town is a reinterpretation of Tallinn’s historical towers and spires and becomes a monument for the surrounding area’s transformation from former industrial harbour to a new cultural city district. The new building combines a rational stacking of the entire municipal administration and city council with generous public spaces on the ground floor where the public service functions are located.
Client City of Tallinn Collaborators Sea Size 20.900 m2 Location Tallinn, Estonia Year 2009 Status Settled
Music Plaza The Music Plaza will become Copenhagen’s new venue for music, culture, events and city life. The project brings together the existing facilities, institutions and activities to a new and fully integrated destination. The project consists of three strategic levels; a homogenous ground surface - the floor, with three scenes defines the space and connects to existing facilities, a new roof creates a covered outdoor event space and becomes the new landmark of the Music Plaza, and transformations of existing buildings allows for new connections between the indoor- and outdoor activities.
Client Municipality of Copenhagen Collaborators Witraz and Niras Size 3.000 sqm Location Copenhagen, Denmark Year 2008 Status 1st price, completion 2010
E+ Science Center The project unites science, education and sustainability in one concept for Sarspborg Science Centre. The project introduces the concept of an E+ building that produces energy and reduces consumption. The building contains a forest that regulates humidity, cools the air and contributes to good indoor environment. The building itself becomes a living exhibition showing various aspects of energy use and indoor climate.
Client Municipality of Sarpsborg + Borg og NĂŚring Eiendom A/S Size 10.200 m2 Site Sarpsborg, Norway Year 2007 Collaborators EMA, Niras Engineers
Gleisdorf Housing The housing area is located at the border between the old city center and a newer suburban area in the small Austrian town Gleisdorf. The project combines an intimate local environment with an urban mix of different urban spaces and facilities. By creating solitary buildings of varying size and function, intimate small courtyards and plazas in between the houses are created. All houses have a private roof terrace which creates a balance between common and private spaces.
Client Ă–WGes & GemeinnĂźtzige Wohn- und Siedlungsgenossenschaft Ennstal Size 7000 m2 Location Gleisdorf, Austria Year 2007 Status Settled
University of Southern Denmark University of Southern Denmark in Kolding is a modern open interdisciplinary learning environment for a wide range of student researchers and teachers. The building is designed as a block in 6 staggered plans organized around an indoor atrium. The atrium ensures natural ventilation and daylight throughout the building, while the staggered and rotated plans provide a variety of different learning environments, terraces, balconies and niches.
Client Universitets- og bygningsstyrelsen Collaborators Erik Møller arkitekter, Jeppe Aagaard Andersen, Moe & Brødsgaard Size 33.000 m2 Location Kolding, Denmark Year 2008 Status Settled
Carlsberg - Our City Imagine a part of Copenhagen developed as one big open public space. A city where history meets the future in a mix of creativity, work and recreation. The project is a combination of an architectural masterplan and a process plan for the future development. We propose to slowly ‘grow’ a new urban district. The masterplan is above all about preservation of the exiting industrial heritage. Secondly we propose a three dimensional building envelope that gently adds as many square meters as possible without disturbing the surrounding neighbourhoods. The three dimensional building envelope can accommodate various typologies ranging from towers to urban blocks and low-rise thereby literally building a mixed urban environment.
Client Carlsberg Ejendomme Collaborators ADEPT Area Copenhagen, Denmark Site 84 ha. Year 2007 Status Settled
Retortvej 1 The commercial buildings at Vigerslev Station contains shops, services, and offices. The diamond shaped plot is defined by Vigerslev Alle, the train tracks and Retortvej. The lowest floors of the building are used for shops, whereas the upper part of the building volume, containing the more light dependent business floors, is divided in two peaks. This gives a building a unique profile in the form of two ‘mountain tops’ with a ‘valley’ in between. The building becomes a landmark for the station and the whole area’s thriving development. The large roof surface is perforated by light shafts, patios and terraces which provide light and views to the office spaces.
Client Flemming Holberg Fenger Size 13.400 m2 Location Copenhagen, Denmark Year 2009 Status Not settled
Green Metropolis
Vision for the Copenhagen Metropole Zone The green metropolis is going to be a demonstration of the new development of Copenhagen. It is about going green and dense at the same time. The project suggests a combination of four strategies. A densification strategy: raising the building mass by 50%. A strategy of getting more people through the area by upgrading flows, connections and destinations. A new infrastructural plan reducing the amount of cars on the street level and thereby adding new public spaces. And finally we propose a green policy toolkit.
Client Municipality of Copenhagen Site 84 ha Location Copenhagen, Denmark Year 2007 Collaborators Kontrapunkt, ViaTrafik
Kløvermarken The Kløvermarken neighborhood on the east coast of Amager in Copenhagen is a complex neighborhood with a mix of old industrial buildings, coastline, allotment gardens and Kløvermarken’s great open football facilities in the middle. Through a clear and simple gesture Kløvermarken is stretched to connect Øresund and the city in a magnificent new park, which will also become Copenhagen’s new green passage to Øresund. To the south, between the old Amager and the new park, new urban districts are established. It is a green and vibrant town, where new buildings are mixed with old industrial building, where housing is mixed with business, and where gardens and green spaces create connections and attractive public spaces in between the buildings.
Client Municipality of Copenhagen & Skanska Collaborators Niras Konsulenterne Size 140 ha Location Copenhagen, Denmark Year 2008 Status 2nd price
X- Site Proposal for an outdoor and indoor nightclub at the Lido in Venice. Instead of the typical enclosed box, this project envisions an open cohesive environment offering a broad range of spatial experiences. The clear and visionary typology of the project is based on the vision of a large floating outdoor garden which is bended to accommodate the different spaces and functions in the ground floor. The great valley, the scene, the dance floor and the garden create a continuous outdoor and indoor environment with plenty of variety and opportunity to relax on one of the outdoor terraces or to sit at the bar in the cave.
Client X/Site Srl Size 3000 m2 Location Venice, Italy Year 2008 Status Ongoing
Geological Museum On the edge of Faxe Kalkbrud, the city want to build a museum showing the geological history of the site. The building is a half submerged animating the landscape of the park and creating a unique experience for the visitor that virtually submerges herself into a chalk grotto to get into the museum. Once inside the museum panorama windows allows the visitor to enjoy the magnificent view over the giant chalk pit.
Client Municipality of Fakse Size 1.000 m2 Location Fakse, Denmark Year 2006 Status Settled
Digital Aquarium The “black box� design is an addition to a Danish Ocean Centre featuring a wide range of aquariums. The new building is conceived as a digital aquarium. In contrary to the real aquariums the new with the ability to change contents and experience every year.
Client Havets Hus Size 2.000 m2 Location Grenaa, Denmark Year 2009 Status Ongoing
Ché City Winner of the Golden Lion Award, Venice Biennale 2006 The project proposes the development of a sustainable urban city in the greater region of Shanghai. It is a new 240 ha urban development next to the Formula One track in Jiading. The challenge of Chinese high speed urbanism is met on several levels. Through a new type of attractive ecological and artificial nature the city aims to combine green with urban. It is a dense living city wrapped in a green eco landscape. The project was a part of the Danish contribution to the Venice Biennale 2006 entitled CO-EVOLUTION (and won the prestigious Golden Lion Award). The jury wrote: “We salute the creativity, intelligence, and generosity of the Danish pavilion.”
Client DAC Size 240 ha Site Jiading, Shanghai, China Year 2007 Collaborators Tongji university of Shanghai, Carl Bro
Artmall Artmall, Copenhagen is a building for a combined institution housing a new arthall, galleries, bookshop, artist residences and artist offices. The building is organized as three large ‘white cube’ exhibition halls. The three halls are bridges by slaps containing the additional functions of the building. The “bridges” also support the giant roofspand within the three exhibition halls.
Client Future Arthall of Copenhagen Size 6.580 m2 Location Copenhagen, Denmark Year 2004 Status Settled
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