VM house, Denmark

CASESTUDY

V I R T U A L

CONTENTS

• INTRODUCTION - About The Building - Location - Accessibility• Site plan• Concept• Evolution of form• Floor plans• Sections• Materials• Landscaping• References

• VM Houses is a housing project consisting of two adjacent apartment buildings shaped like “m” and “v” letter.

M House V HOUSE

• most important aspects WAS development of diverse apartment typologies, ranging from single-floor plans to triplexes.

• "We live in a world where individualism has a greater resonance than before. Diversity is well accepted, even desired. People living in a housing project must also have access to individuality “

- (Julien De Smedt, JDS)

Award

• VM Houses was the first major project to be designed by Julien De Smedt and Bjarke Ingels, winning them the Forum AID Award for the best building in Scandinavia in 2006.

INTRODUCTION

95 housing units 36 different apartment shape. Total area: 12,500 sqM. Completed: 2004

114 housing units 40 different apartment shapes Total area: 12,500 sqM Completed: 2005

About the building

• project type : retail, residential• CLIENT: høpfner a/s, danish oil company• ARCHITECTS: big + jds = plot• construction : 2004–2005• program: 209 apartments• Built-up area: 25,000 sqm

Julian De Smedt and Bjarke Ingels VM House

SITE

DENMARK

Location: ørestads boulevard 55, 2300 københavn s copenhagen

• Accessibility TO THE SITE - This neighbourhood is connected to the city centre with a new subway line which is accessed via a steel bridge that crosses the canal. - - its near to amager faelled park.

Accessibility:

SITE PLAN

SITE ENTRY

CONCEPT

• Inspired by Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation concept OF SKIP-STOP SYSTEM.• two residential blocks, with footprints in the shape of the letters V and M,

have been designed with an emphasis on daylight, and views.• Rather than looking over the neighboring building, all the apartments have

diagonal views of the surrounding landscape.• Corridors are short, rather like bullet holes through the building.

TRADITIONAL BLOCK OPENING THE BLOCK AVOIDING VIS –A-VIS OPENING VIEWS OWTWARDS

AVOIDING VIS-A-VIS OPENING MORE VIEWS SLOPING AND STEPPING DOWN

OPTIMAL VIEWS

Evolution of form

IF PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT THEN WHY SHOULD ALL THE APARTMENTS ALIKE?

M Block Units V Block Units

PLAN OF DIFFERENT TYPOLOGIES – V HOUSE

PLAN OF DIFFERENT TYPOLOGIES – V HOUSE

FLOOR PLANS – V HOUSE

DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSING UNITS OF V HOUSE

FLOOR PLANS – V HOUSE

FLOOR PLAN – M HOUSE

SECTION OF M HOUSE

SECTION

SECTION OF V HOUSE

SECTION – M HOUSE

SECTION OF M HOUSE – SKIP STOP SYSTEM

materials

• large glass facades framed by fancy wood. • Floors are made up of solid oak wood, and dark, hard wood have been used

for the balcony floors. • Walls and ceilings appear with a somewhat raw finish in white concrete, and

all internal stairs and handrails come in white painted steel. • All the apartment’s external walls are made up of glass

LANDSCAPING

• The V-house is lifted to create a permeable block with a semi-private public court for the residences. • The pedestrian landscaping flows from the street, under the V-house and into the courtyard forming a spatial unity and sense of community between the two buildings. • The courtyard also accommodates a play area for the kindergarten in the base of the M-house, along with an interactive learning area beneath the V-house.

LANDSCAPING

• it is good idea to implement different typologies of apartments.• to obtain maximum views, and to avoid vis-à-vis, part of block can pushed or pulled.• not only terrace can act as communication place, but also balconies by arranging alternatively.

INFERENCES

• http://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/VM_House• http://www.arqred.mx/blog/2008/09/18/vm-houses/• http://laurenfolkerts.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/bigs-vm- house/• http://www.arcspace.com/features/plot/vm-houses/• http://leesanstudio.blogspot.in/2010/10/precedent-research- vm-houses.html• http://www.world-architects.com/en/big/projects-3/vm houses plot big jds-144• http://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/housing/big-vm- houses/

REFERENCES