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VM Housing
PLOT, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, JDS architects | |
| location | Copenhagen |
| function | housing |
| contributed by | Marloes_Faber |
The VM Houses, shaped like a V and an M when seen from above, is the first residential project to be built in Ørestad; a new quarter of Copenhagen. The characters represent PLOT’s vision of how to create the most light possible and a view for the most residents possible. The total project houses 41 shared-ownership flats and 180 owner-occupied apartments. To leave room for life around the buildings they lifted the V House on five meter high columns, opening the courtyard to the park area on the south side, and broke down the facades with niches and angles, creating a series of informal meeting places. Each apartment in the V Building has a tapering, triangular balcony with a panoramic south-facing view and rooms with up to five metres’ ceiling height. Instead of the usual high-rise apartments the units are designed as loft spaces, each different both in width and height, letting residents design their own individual apartments.
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