‘Departure and homecoming: Tradition may constitute a point of departure for creation, but never a home to come back to’ — Kazuo Shinohara

Studio
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Established in 2018, our 12 people team is working out of Copenhagen, Denmark. Half of the studio m2 is dedicated workshop spaces where we develop og prototype our designs. We employ a range of dedicated consultants, suppliers and producers that understands our high standards and values. Our services span from smaller scale architecute, full scale interior projects, consultancy and construction administration to custom inventory systems and furniture. We design for the long collaboration with our clients. Consulting them on their visions and concrete functionalities, proposing concepts and systems to sustain and develop these over time. We acknowledge that the challenges of our time - climate change and biodiversity loss - necessitate a shift in architecture. Our goal is to minimize new construction, focusing instead on adaptive reuse through discourse, built examples, and ultimately influencing policy and legislation.

Workshop
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Modernist efficiency fragmented construction processes. We counter this by prototyping and experimenting 1:1 in-house, ensuring deep material and technical understanding. Our CNC-equipped workshop fosters direct engagement with materials, enabling us to push beyond standardized practices, letting our projects becomes the build examples of this new discourse. In our research based workshop we are looking for opportunities found within materials, techniques and production. Opportunity found in the sequence of construction, prioritizing assembly for disassembly, in order to create a route for future renovation and repurposing. Opportunity found in a focus on joints. The meetings of materials are core in all building strategies and must be treated likewise. Opportunity found in exposing and critiquing the standards of material and production in order to innovate beyond the mono-culture of building. Opportunity found in regarding digital fabrication as craft - building on top of historical experience and precedence. Opportunity found in local materials and production. Achieving a high quality of detailing economically and with a lower carbon footprint. Opportunity found in nesting strategies for production. All materials have a format that we must know and design from. Opportunity found in raw materials. For the right applications the less processed material the better.

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Due to the high volume of interest, we can only respond to solicited applications.

collaborators

Gehl Architects
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Studio Atlant
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COBE
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Dinesen Lab
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MSSR Works
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Arda Audio
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Realdania
,
Pihlmann Architects
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Reværk
,
Rumgehør
,
Chrissie Muhr
,
Arkitektforeningen
,
Dreyersfond
,
Forthcoming Studio
,
Artikel København
,
Studio Kim Lenschow
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Almenr
,
Christine Bjerke
,
Victor Boye Julebæk
,
Marianne Krogh
,
Alexis Mark
,
Sarah Mullertz
,
Peter Frøge
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Studio 0405
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Sara Martinsen
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clients

Realdania
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Copenhagen Contemporary
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Nicholas James Love
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Bikubenfonden
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Rockfon
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Glyptoteket
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Norse Projects
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D Line
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Playdead
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Gammel Strand
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Åben Brewery
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Kinraden
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Artikel København
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NREP
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Gasoline Grill
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Tivoli Gardens
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Art Hub
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Trifolium
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SMK
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Almenr
,
Refshaleøen
,
Carlsberg Byen
,
Frama
,
Ricardo Bofill
,

Exhibitions and Publications

Exhibition, Archival Studies x Gammel Strand, 3 Days of Design, 2024 Publication, book, Reset Materials, exhibition design, 2023 Exhibition, Parts of a Whole, with Artikel København, 3 Days of Design, 2023 Exhibition, Mindcraft Project, Online exhibition, 2021 Publication, magazine, Kōnā Restaurant, Monocle, 2021 Publication, magazine, Archival Studies, Euroman, 2020 Exhibition, Studio X , 3 Days of Design, 2020 Publication, book, 11 rum: Nyindretning at Marienborg, 2019 Exhibition, Give Tradition a New Meaning, Living Is Giving, Beijing Design Week 2018

Grants and Residencies

Business grant, The Young Artistic Elite Grant, Statens Kunstfond Danish Arts Foundation, 2019 Travel grant Japan, Danish Arts Foundation, 2019 Travel grant Japan, Dreyers Fond, 2018 Residency, Danish Art Workshops, Copenhagen, 2018 Project grant, Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond, Denmark, 2017

Lectures

Singularch Lecture Series, ‘Transforming the Already Excisting’, Bratislava, 2024 Latvian Design Award, ‘Transforming the Already Excisting’, Riga, 2023 The Royal Danish Academy of Art, School of Architecture, ‘Understanding the Already Excisting’, Copenhagen, 2022 The Royal Danish Academy of Art, School of Architecture, ‘Lecture 01’ Copenhagen, 2018

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