portfolio julia nygaard - bach.arch maa
A church in Nordhavnen Bachelor project
The cross axis as an indicator of the design The two main axes on the building side was the main inspiration to the layout of the church in Nordhavnen. The church room is placed where the two axes intersect in plane view while the interior underlines the sign of the cross. Another focus point in the project is the main entrance to the church. By introducing an organic shape, in contrast to the strict alignment in the rest of the building, the entrance appears welcoming and compelling to the public.
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Ground floor section 1:500 (original scale 1:200)
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North elevation 1:500 (original scale 1:200)
Section A-A 1:500 (original scale 1:200)
Section B-B 1:500 (original scale 1:200)
Section C-C 1:500 (original scale 1:200)
The integrated church bench The integrated church bench appears as four big metal sheets in plan view that are submerged down to the concrete floor and underlines the cross shape in the room. The big sheet has cutouts for every 120cm that unfolds itself and ‘grows up’ from the floor, becoming the bench. The remaining metal that sticks to the ground grows further on into the recesses in the wall and becomes a table.
An addition to Thorvaldsens Museum 5th semester project
Bringing the square in front in place Thorvaldsen’s Museum in Copenhagen is located in the heart of the city where every square meter is usually used to the full. Yet the square in front of the museum is very deserted and seems cold and rejecting to the public. The intention with the addition to the museum was above all to breathe life into the big square in front of the old main entrance and give something, not only to the users of the museum, but also to the city and it’s citizens. Maintaining the principles of straight lines and long corridors from the old museum became an indicator of the design in the new addition along with the desire to make use of the beneficial location alongside the canal.
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Basement plane section 1:500 (original scale 1:100)
Section A 1:500 (original scale 1:100)
Jagtvej 69 4th semester project
Longitutional section of the block structure 1:200
Block structure and a shared apartment for three The goal when designing the block structure for Jagtvej 69 was for all apartments to have their own little atrium, which should be taking bearings by the sun. With this criterion in mind during the design process, the apartments developed into L-shaped units, where the four rooms in the two wings all have panorama windows towards the atrium. The L-shape in the main structure also turned out to be very beneficial when designing the shared apartment for three persons. Placing the private rooms in the two wings gives each of the three individuals a great opportunity to withdraw from the social acts that takes place in the shared space in the centre of the L-shape or in the atrium.
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Groundfloor plane section 1:100 (original scale 1:50)
1. floor plane section 1:100 (original scale 1:50)
Section A 1:100 (original scale 1:50)
Section B 1:100 (original scale 1:50)
The stairway as the crux of the house The corner square of the L-shape is what holds together the two wings in the horizontal plane. Therefor this was also the most natural place to have the vertical connection. Working with the stairway as a sculptural element in the apartment instead of just a connection between the two and a half floors became a focal point very early in the process.
The public courtyard as a sculptural piece of furniture The design of the public courtyard area is organic and soft in order to break with the very rigid block structure. The center is lowered forty-five centimeters from the ground floor level, which gives rise to go down here when one need a break from the pulsing shopping and cafe environment on the ground floor level. On the lowered ground the winding arch becomes a bench when the arch is concave towards the center. Concurrently the arch becomes a bench on the ground floor level when the arch is convex towards the center.
Analysis of distance to building
Bench elevation 1:10
Bench section 1:10
A tower in Ă˜restaden 3rd semester project
Unique floors and green terraces The increasing floors define the shape of the building. The unique floors have their origin from a square from which a piece has been removed every time you move up one level. In this way each floor has a space with open sky and a spacious view. This unique space is intended as private vegetable gardens or terraces. Sash windows and doors make it possible to open up to the terraces.
Apartment section 1:100 (original scale 1:50)
Apartment section 1:100 (original scale 1:50)
Terrace section 1:20
Modern japanese jointing 1 week workshop
A finger jointing innovation With the traditional finger jointing as our starting point, we wanted to add a 3rd element that could lock the jointing, so that glue would be unnecessary. The added vertical element is intended to be a leg of a chair, table, sofa etc. The jointing was drawn in Sketch Up and cut out by a CNC cutter machine.
A 1:1 steel costruction 2 weeks workshop
Triangle - a platform for a break The idea behind ‘Triangle’ is that from an elevator perspective it looks like a hexagon, but if the construction is unfolded, it is actually a right-angled triangle. The triangle itself is divided into eight equal pieces, which could describe an octagon if the tip would be attached to the 90 degreed angle. Instead of that the construction overlaps itself with two of the eight links. The overlap is underlined in the creation by leaving out the wooden filling only just where the overlap is happening.
Public baths for the allotment society ‘Vennelyst’ 2nd semester project
The fragmented ellipse and the space in between Men’s changing room, women’s changing room, sauna and a room for rest were the four functions that the public bath needed to contain. Instead of having the functions together under the same roof, the building was separated into four small buildings – one for each function. The way the fragments interrelate both vertical and horizontal creates a space in between them that is unique. The intention with the rounded outer shell is to drag the user around the building and lead him or her to one of the four openings from where the little labyrinth can be entered.
Longitutional section 1:100 (original scale 1:50)