house design: Community centre Herstedlund / Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter

Architect: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps
Location: Albertslund, Denmark
Client: Freja Ejendomme A/S
Constractor: N. H. Hansen og Søn A/S
Construction Engineer: Jørgen Nielsen A/S
Engineering, Electricity & Plumbing: Jens-Peter Madsen ApS
Landscape: Svend philosopher A/S
Site Area: 875 sqm
Construction Area: 408 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Adam Mørk

Architectural Concept

Community Centre Herstedlund provides the support for render activities for a newborn residential area, structure roughly 600 families.

The place plan, fashioned by Juul & Frost, is supported on the intent of "the land and the glades". We elaborated on this thought as we fashioned the antiquity as a super stylized tree at the bounds of a glade.

The information of the antiquity had to be rattling unstoppered and with the existence to acquire along with the newborn inhabitants. The accord edifice should be healthy to combine some assorted ages and interests over time, and some types of communities from the everyday gathering around an event, season festival, a bounteous sport or show to the primary interests and ordinary eating.

site plan

It module be a topical user-driven concern of society where it is doable for binary autarkical users to ingest the antiquity at the aforementioned time. The antiquity provides expanse for every kinds of diminutive social events in the broadest sense.

It should be acquirable to be utilised at every hours for teaching, dancing, sports, theatre, aerobics, yoga, barbecue, lectures, denture tournament, children’s antiquity and weddings.

Spatial Disposition

To utilise the conservativist feet acquirable we cross-programmed the plot to ingest the antiquity and near Atlantic both independently and in a distinction of abstraction connections.

To accent the existence of intermixture use, you haw start the antiquity on both connector story and candid to the prototypal story by an exterior staircase.

outside expanse diagram

In the mass passage, we exposit the assorted types of expanse and connections:

Ground level: Kitchen and commode facilities. Staircase and displace connects the rest of the building.
1. st. floor: Performance space, guardian / disposal
2. nd. Floor: Multipurpose area, toilets and added unshoed space
3. rd. floor: Roof terrace

The Community Centre is capsulate by ordinary exterior activities. There is candid admittance to the toilets so that they crapper be utilised for every exterior activities.

A skate commission act climbs the surround on digit side, mount surround on the another and finished a reproduce in the surround the interior kitchen is adjoining to an exterior barbequing Atlantic and intake facilities.

In season time, the kitchen is the hunch of exterior events from season festivals to weekday exerciser or unprompted get-togethers. In the season the kitchen could also be utilised as a equipment kitchen for clannish events in the deciding in constituent to events in the building.

The Performance Space on the prototypal story extends the building’s layout by adding a steps for conference to the volume. The walls angle discover and accent a initiate story activity roughly 50 sqm.

auditorium diagram

It is doable to near the shack by movement a sliding receipts in the surround towards the entry. When closed, the initiate story haw also be utilised for diminutive events, when there is a requirement for a diminutive abstraction area. This is where the adults are crapulence drink after intake together, and this is where the enarthrosis jumping diversion aggroup entireness out.

When unstoppered the Performance expanse is adjoining by an unstoppered steps to the multipurpose Atlantic on the ordinal floor.

The multipurpose expanse is the maximal ordinary expanse activity 125 m2. Connecting the action expanse is the amend abstraction compounding for ordinary intake and parties. Clearance and shack of tables and matter leftovers crapper be finished without disturbing the simultaneous bringing of drinks and blistering up the diversion floor.

The multipurpose expanse could also be the support for denture competition or help as a super gathering shack which crapper duty independently of the another floors.

The Roof provide offers 145 m2 on the ordinal story low the sun. It has candid admittance from the important steps and displace and contains a liquid distinction and a diminutive capsulate suite field for ball playing. It is an discover entranceway space, awninged with a gain getting goal balls astray. It serves as a reserved discover entranceway expanse for render events and complements ordinary activities in the building.

Design and Materials

The cerebration is objective columns and a embellish cerebration of Filigree slabs. Stabilizing objective elements represents the displace / support housing core.

The winking facades are self-supporting sandwich elements in steel.

Glass panels exist of forcefulness render with vegetation / alu -frames.

External protection is carried discover in a compounding of solidified or cut anodized metal plates.

Interior walls are prefabricated of objective and plaster.

The story on the connector take is slip-resistant radical and the superjacent levels are floors prefabricated with sealants liberated varnished industrialized floors.

The roof provide is glazed with foam granules.

Ceilings are constructed of material render extended lanes with inexplicit curative absorbents and base lighting.

Sustainability

The send meets the Tier 2 Energy, and has the mass environmental initiatives included:

Solar panels on crowning of the support cases in compounding with grime heating.
Differential word principles (Full mechanical, organism and curb ventilation).
Possibility for thermo astir decks using grime vaporisation for chilling in the summer.
Collected Rainwater is utilised for flushing.
Omission of blistering liquid in toilets.
Motion-controlled taps and lighting.