KALVEBOD WAVES BY KLAR + JDS

Friday the 30th of August marks the official opening of harbor front project in Copenhagen, Kalvebod Waves, collectively designed by KLAR and JDS/Julien De SmedtArchitects with the support of Sloth Møller and Niras Engineers.

The project injected some 28.000 m2 of outdoor space for all which introduced a new concept of bathing and water sports to the capital. The success was immediate and the first real signs of the city turning itself back to its waterways became evident.

Kalvebod Brygge is situated opposite the popular Copenhagen summer hang out, Islands Brygge. Kalvebod Brygge has the potential to be Islands Brygge’s more urban counterpart but has, until now, been synonymous with a desolated office address devoid of life and public activities.

This new waterfront will be a place for a larger spectrum of public activities. With a close connection to the central train station and Tivoli, Copenhagen’s famous city amusement park, ‘Kalvebod Bølge’, the ‘Kalvebod Waves’ will become a hub, buzzing with activity and providing a chance for the inner city to regain its connection to the harbour.

Constituted more by its functionality than its tradition, this inner city site is less fragile than others and manifests Copenhagen’s contemporary urban waterfront with neighbouring entities such as the Black Diamond Library and the Nykredit building.

The project consists of two main plazas, which extend across the water and are positioned with regards to sunlight and wind conditions. To the south, the pier allows for a flexible public space on the water with facilities to host events related to the creative industry.

During the last 10 years Copenhagen has developed into a stronghold for the creative class, therefore Kalvebod Brygge proposes an urban showcase that gives organizations, companies, festivals and fairs a location along the waterfront.

In connection with this space, an active water enclave is created, for various water related activities. The plaza and surrounding pontoons provide the necessary facilities for these activities to function.

The flow of boats that commute to and from the water hub also creates an active maritime background and secures the connectivity of the plaza to the rest of the city. The second square acts as an oasis on the water, providing both proximity and access.

This recreational space, with a beach, allows for a break from the hectic pace of urban life, where a floating garden is proposed. A maritime park where urban and maritime life meet.

Location: Kalvebod Brygge, Copenhagen Harbor, Denmark

Team: KLAR, Future Experience, U-Turn, White Water Adventure Park, JDS

Creative Authorship: Julien De Smedt

Project Leader: Francisco Villeda, Henning Stüben, Jeppe Ecklon, Sandra Fleischmann

Project Team: Coralie Pfister, Felix Luong, Jacob Aaron Simanowitz, James Mcbennett, Kristoffer Harling, Lieven Schulz, Magda Kusowska, Philipp Ohnesorge, Richard Duong Tu, Wouter Dons

Size: 4.000 m2

Budget: 7.000.000 EUR

Year: 2013

Client: Copenhagen’s Municipality

GREEN VISITOR CENTER BY JDS ARCHITECTS

“The Beijing Welcome Centre is a project for a gateway exhibition building for a new sustainable industry park in Beijing.

The building is based on the principle of manipulating a box envelope for environmental and contextual concerns in order to make a building which is low tech and low cost.

The first manipulation is to join the existing car park to the R&D centre and the park loop.

This allows the public to walk over the building and experience the park in a different height, first getting an overview before descending into it.

The second series of manipulations are based around sustainability, blocking the cold north Beijing winter wind, promoting the cool southeast summer wind, creating shadow to the south and moveable sun shading / solar cells to the east and west.

The building becomes a result of a series of pragmatic scientific operations making a piece of architecture which is ingrained in the site and promotes the notion of low tech sustainability.” JDSArchitects

Project: Visitor Center

Type: Commission

Size: 5.000 m2          

Client: Vanke            

Status: Ongoing 2012

Location: Beijing, China        

Team: JDS, Transsolar, MUDI                  

JDS Partner in Charge: Julien De Smedt, Henning Stuben

Project Leader: Charlotte Lieske  

Project Team: Andrew Griffin, Cristina Marigo, Iria Carreira, Amanda Ripoll, Mathilde Claus, Byeongmoo Moon

Photo: JDSArchitects

PREMIER CAMPUS OFFICE BY JDS ARCHITECTS

The Kagithane Gardens is a business district that focuses on the users working and living qualities and addresses its presence in Istanbul as a new form of contextual and urban approach.

The building is formed by our desire to make it interact with its environment. It opens itself up to the neighbourhood and offers spaces to the users and the passers by such as plazas, intimate gardens and generous terraces. The volume of the block is literally carved out to invite the surroundings in.

The local hilly landscape, characteristic to Istanbul, is continued in the meandering of the volume both in plan, adapting to the site’s edges, and in section, weaving into itself in a series of gentle curving slopes, echoing the nearby Bosphorus waves.

The vibrant commercial life of the groundfloor burst out onto the plazas and the landscape. Upstairs the offices open out onto the green terraces, populated with lush vegetation, tempering the hot Springs and Summers.

The volume reads clearly while still opening itself generously to the city from the far. As one gets closer the interiors become more discreet, protected by louvers that help shade from the sun. The project acts as a catalyst of business life for a new Istanbul, that promotes contemporary culture, architecture and lifestyle.

We’ve thought a building where inside interacts with outside, where the plan is  flexible to allow for anyone to find its desired space and place, whether it be a small one man show company or a large corporate office employing hundreds.

We believe life is plural and various entities should coexist and exchange their experiences. The Kagithane Gardens is where such a rich diversity can find its place.

JDS details: “The project acts as a catalyst of business life for a new Istanbul that promotes contemporary culture, architecture and lifestyle. We’ve thought of a building where inside interacts with outside, where the plan is flexible to allow for anyone to find its desired space and place, whether it be a small one man show company or a large corporate office employing hundreds.”

The ground floor of the development will be home to retail units which open out onto intimate gardens, terraces and plazas while above the offices are host to private terraces.

These staggered green spaces create a dramatic silhouette for the building, topped with glass boxes which filter strong sunlight into the generous interior volumes.

 

 

 

Location: Istanbul, Turkey 
Architect:JDS Architects 
Partner in Charge: Julien De Smedt 
Project Leader: Kamile Malinauskaite 
Team: DB Architects, Tavusbay-STATIK, Geodinamik, Dinamik Proje, Pozitif Proje 
Project Team: Laure Vandenbroucke, Vincent Macris, Emily Pescod, Melike Ceyisakar, Camille Fatier, Borna Pavicic, Kazuya Uchida 
Size: 100.000 m2 
Status: On-going 2013 
Client: Feryapi