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This multi-use building in Copenhagen became its own material bank

BOOKMARK ARTICLE
Thoravej 29 opens into a Tardis-like space hosting 150 people across 30 organizations, with diverse functions including studios, galleries, offices and a production kitchen. - Hampus Berndtson
Users are greeted by a broad bleacher-like staircase that bridges the ground and first floors – a structural solution that ‘weaves the floors together, creating spatial variation and shifting vertical thresholds’. - Hampus Berndtson
Stripping the structure back to its concrete frame – TT-slabs, beams and horizontal window bands – the architects worked almost entirely within its original material palette. - Hampus Berndtson

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Interior Consultation
Sara Martinen
Contractor
Hoffmann A/S
Floor Area
6,224 sq-m

Originally built in 1967, Thoravej 29 has been reimagined by Pihlmann Architects as a dynamic, low-carbon community hub in Copenhagen using just one material: itself. 

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