BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

VM Houses

VM Houses
© BIG + JDS = PLOT

VM HOUSES

Big + Jds

ARCHITECTS
Big + Jds

COLLABORATORS
Plot, JDS Architects, Moe & Brodsgaard

PROGRAM
230 Apartments

CLIENT
Dansk Olie Kompagni A/S, Hopfner A/S

CONTRACTOR
Hopfner A/S

PHOTOGRAPHS
Maria Gonzalez

AREA
25000.0 m²

YEAR
2005

LOCATION
Copenhagen, Denmark

CATEGORY
Apartments

Text description provided by architect.

If people are different then why are all apartments alike?

VM Houses
© BIG + JDS = PLOT
VM Houses
© BIG + JDS = PLOT

The VM Houses are two residential blocks formed as the letters V and M. The blocks are formed as such to allow for daylight, privacy and views.

The vis-à-vis with the neighbour is eliminated by pushing the slab in its centre, ensuring diagonal views to the vast and open, surrounding fields.

VM Houses
© BIG + JDS = PLOT
VM Houses
© BIG + JDS = PLOT

All apartments have a double-height space to the north and wide panoramic views to the south. The logic of the diagonal slab utilized in the V house is broken down in smaller portions for the M house.

In this project, the typology of the Unite d' Habitation of Le Corbusier is reinterpreted and improved; the central corridors are short and receive light from both ends, like bullet holes penetrating the building.

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VM Houses
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The VM Houses offer more than 80 different apartment types that are programmatically flexible and open to the individual needs of contemporary life - a mosaic of different life forms.


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