Isabella Lopez Rengstig 2010-2013 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture Department 5
A house in a composite landscape The building is placed in the industrial landscape Refshaleoen in Copenhagen. Through interviews and analyses of the site, the idea of making a house that stood in contrast with the impersonal, huge industrial halls grew. With making a sauna and joint restaurant, the residents and workers of Refshaleoen could enjoy a more intimate atmosphere in a house with a more “human scale�. By building the house in wood and not trying to mimic the aesthetics and shapes of the buildings surrounding it, but rather relate to the nature instead, the house appears more accessible. The sauna-part of the building is quite compact and dark, but opens up, both in the arrangement of the plan and with more light in the restaurant section. From both the restaurant and the sauna it is possible to view the surrounding industrial landscape whilst enjoying the warmth and company.
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Registration 4
Location of building 5
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Ground floor - restaurant and changing rooms 8
First floor - saunas 9
Takpanna Underlagspapp Ströläkt
Underlagstak
Vindpapp Bärläkt
Insektsnät
Isolering (mineralull)
Takfotsbräda Isolering (mineralull) Kantbalk Takstol + Luftspalt Fotplåt+Stupränna
Invändig beklädnad Spikläkt Isolering+Väggreglar Ångspärr Isolering+Träpelare Vindpapp
Ventilerat hålrum Lockpanel
Section through roof and outer wall 10
Golvplankor Inre beklädnad Isolering+väggreglar Ångspärr Isolering+Trästolpe Vindpapp Spikläkt Luftspalt Lockpanel Övre syll Golvbjälke Asfaltspapp Syll Strängfundament
Section through facade and base 11
A backyard investigation This project started with an investigation of Amagerbrogade. Soon, a special interest occurred in the backyards of the street, which, since they are private were differently difficult to access and also varied in their appearance. At Amagerbrogade/Søren Norbys Allé three backyards were woven together, but a crack had appeared between them where trees and bushes were growing wildly, a sort of “no mans land” or a sanctuary for the vegetation in the otherwise concrete-covered backyards. A wooden fence separated one of the backyard from the vegetation and the other backyards. From the fence, it seemed like bicycle sheds were growing out and an idea of forming a small building that also “grew out” from the twodimensional fence to create a three-dimensional space was formed. The building has a flexible program and could be used and furnished depending on the needs.
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Survey of wooden fence and bicycle sheds pencil, aquarelle
Plaster models of house corners made during registration of the site 16
Proposed elevation of building seen from south 17
Proposed groundfloor,, Longitudinal section 18
Proposed first floor, Cross section 19
St. Albans Church - analysis St. Albans Church is also called The English Church and is placed in Churchill park. The analysis started with an investigation of the facade of the church, both the structure and the materials. An organic section was made of the gathered material and a object was created inspired by the drawing.
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Elevation AutoCad 22
Elevation Oil pastel 23
Details from drawing
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Drawing pencil 25
Object plaster 26
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A house in the compact city The aim for this house was to draw an apartment building with 6-12 apartments of different sizes with a gastronomy at the ground floor. The house is placed at an empty ground in Griffelfeldsgade, Norrebro, Copenhagen. While investigating the area surrounding the ground, an idea of bringing in the green seen in the backyard emerged. By letting the staircase of the house crawl upwards in the building, new shapes of apartments were created for every level, where no one is similar to the other one. Since the site does not receive much sunlight during the day, efforts were being made to use the daylight as much as possible. 28
Site plan aquarelle, AutoCad
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Development of facade
Section and iso of the staicase crawling through the building
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Ground floor, 1st floor 2nd floor, 3rd floor 4th floor, Roof garden 33
Close-up of 3rd floor
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Sketch renderings
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Field trip to Vienna During a few days in March a field trip to Vienna was conducted, with the main focus on urban spaces and different types of housing and gastronomies. Works by Otto Wagner, Jo탑e Plecnik, Josef Frank and Max Fellerer et al, showed how architecture creates and organizes thresholds between different degrees of privacy and public spaces. One of the days was devoted to visit, register and survey four different types of gastronomies. The typologies were: Kaffehaus, Konditorei, Gasthaus and Buffet. These typologies do not only have different histories of development, but when comparing the experiences of the different places it is possibly to discuss what type of stay and interaction they offer the citizens and visitors an infrastructure in the city distributed over semipublic interiors.
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Axo of Zur Eiseren Zeit 6., Naschmarkt Stand 316 Gasthaus
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Survey of Zur Eisernen Zeit
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p.2-11 3rd semester A house in a composite landsccape Teachers: Robert Gassner, Camilla Horneman p.12-19 2nd semester A backyard studenthousing Teachers: Høgni Hansen, Camilla Horneman, Daniel Vejborg p. 20-27 5th semester St Albans Church Analysis Teachers: Anders Munck, Claus Pryds p.28-37 4th semester A house in the compact city 38-41 Field trip to Vienna Teachers: Robert Gassner, Camilla Horneman
Contact information: Isabella Lopez Rengstig mail: isabella.lopez.rengstig@gmail.com phone: +46738408004
Computer knowledge: Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, AutoCad, Sketchup, 3D StudioMax, Office-package Spoken Languages: Swedish English Danish