The studio ‘Posehuset’ is a small house in addition to the countryside estate and the main building itself called ‘Posehuset’. Before, just an old stable used for junk, but now, after the renovation, a multi-facetted and top-modern workshop building has grown out of the shell, like a jewel popping out of its treasure box.
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Svendborg Architects, Copenhagen
Ole Hein Pedersen
A & C Byg
Private artist (acting, performing
and music production)
Johnny Svendborg,
Poul Højlund,
Robert Janson,
Tony Staples,
Filip Piwowarczyk
Farum
Denmark
2010
25 m2 |
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The studio ‘Posehuset’ is a small house in addition to the countryside estate and the main building itself called ‘Posehuset’. Before, just an old stable used for junk, but now, after the renovation, a multi-facetted and top-modern workshop building has grown out of the shell, like a jewel popping out of its treasure box.
Architect: Photographer: Building company: Client/investor:
Project team:
City:
Country:
Year of completion: Area: |
Svendborg Architects, Copenhagen
Ole Hein Pedersen
A & C Byg
Private artist (acting, performing
and music production)
Johnny Svendborg,
Poul Højlund,
Robert Janson,
Tony Staples,
Filip Piwowarczyk
Farum
Denmark
2010
25 m2 |
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The VELUX roof windows and the refined puzzle parts of the roof combine to provide the building with a strong expression.
Situated in a forest-like neighbourhood, the old countryside cottage ‘Posehuset’ is placed on a pretty normal residentialsized site. ‘Posehuset’ means the ‘House of Bags´and has got its name after the previous owner, a woman, who was a devoted collector of plastic bags. Today the name sticks to the new owners and is carried on to the present story with all the art activities and music production going on there. The renovation project stems from a functional need of more working space in connection to the private residence where the living room was often used as temporary, experimental ‘playground’ for home productions and multiple art projects. The clients, a couple within acting, performances and music production, earlier renovated half of the building and set up a home-music studio at one end. Now they found that the other end could be used and provide space for bigger and more advanced projects for which they till now had had to rent space elsewhere. ‘When the ground space is so limited, every detail and the concept itself have to be more refined, like a sophisticated jewel. The roof is breaking the limits of the building, contrasting with any other architectural element. Even the angle of the new roof is different from the existing roof and remaining gables,’ architect and daylight consultant, Brian Wendin from VELUX Danmark, is adding.
Initially the couple started the renovation project themselves. ‘We literally started digging out the foundation ourselves, but because of the time factor, a busy life with children and the art projects not to forget, we soon realized that a team of professional daylight consultants/ engineers and architects was needed to develop and refine the architectural ideas and function’, the female part of the actor couple is telling.
From the start, the overall idea was to transform the old stable into a multipurpose workspace using a ready-made box with a roof top construction. This box should be lifted down by crane and placed inside the existing walls of the barn.
Eventually it turned out that the installations and measurements of the old stable would be hard to fit together with the box, so the studio ended up by being built on site with a new, wooden roof construction inside the old brick walls and with the old window and door openings of the stable intact, but blinded from the inside.
The roof, with its system of puzzle parts and black, elucidated aluminium plates ook more than a year to develop and refine.
From the outside the new atelier appears as a prism or jewel coming out of the old stable building and the new expression of the atelier deals with the use of different, old and new, materials and angles of the existing houses.
An almost seamless combination and placement of the borderless roof parts, VELUX solar panels and VELUX roof windows unite the western roof facade.
‘The stream of flexible light- and space-effects fits perfectly to our working method without any big compromises having been made in the building process. The surprising way that nature is being dragged inside the room through the roof windows and the mirror reflections keep inspiring me. Even though the studio is a 100% workspace for my hard, fun experiments, our children also love hanging out here, playing or falling asleep on the floor’, explains the performing artist.
The use of mirrors on the walls and half of the ceiling has lifted the interior concept to another level, creating a kind of large-scale camera obscura.
Natural daylight, reflection from the mirrors and the simplicity of the unfurnished room create a borderless multi-space for artistic expression, where only the limited space (25 m2) puts a limit to what’s possible.
The three different-sized roof windows placed in a balanced grid provide maximum daylight to the room, actually twice as much daylight as would have come through facade windows, and show how important skylight is for the experienced feeling of space and interior expression. The three VELUX roof windows plus the glass door are the only natural light sources since all the old stable windows are blinded.
The new and deeper ground level also adds maximum space-ness to the room, which originally was designed with a flexible mezzanine level/an elevator mechanism.
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