Villa Kirk

Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST

Villa Kirk 

SPOL Architects

ARCHITECTS
Spol Architects

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Adam Kurdahl

DESIGN ARCHITECT
Natalia Shiroma

MANUFACTURERS
Sky-frame, Bang & Olufsen, Dupont

STRUCTURE
Ab Clausen, Michael Panton Lind - Ab Clausen

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Designhaver, Tor Haddeland - Designhaver

MANAGEMENT
Raissa Bahia, Gabriela Parisi, Bruno Cruz, Igor Pratis, Havard Tveito

MEP
Anders Risum - Ar Teknik

LIGHTING
Iben Winther Orton - Lightscapes Aps

CONCRETE CONTRACTOR
Züblin, Züblin

GLASS FACADES
Sky-frame, Sky-frame, Redtzland - Designhaver

PROJECT ARCHITECT
Davi Duwe, Massao Shibuya,

AREA
1000 M²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Denmark

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

Vila Kirk is a hedonistic space for exhibition, play, leisure, receiving, and entertaining guests.

Villa Kirk
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Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST

The client challenged us to combine a Bat Cave with a melted Salvador Watch, raw concrete, and Scandinavian simplicity of clean and open spaces full of daylight.

The underground exhibition hall, the open ground floor, and the raised multimedia room have distinctly different uses that blend in a continuous spatial experience, accelerated by the smooth concrete curves and the large Skyframe windows.

The double-height basement exhibition cave connects to the ground floor which fills the exhibition space with daylight.

Villa Kirk
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Villa Kirk
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Villa Kirk
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The continuous concrete floor turns wide staircase and lifts the space from the basement to the ground floor.

The open ground floor for exercise is an extension of the outside forest. The garage is hidden behind a 10m wide hydraulic hangar gate that opens and reveals the full house from the garage.

Intimated spaces and spa are screened behind soft undulating Oak walls. A white spiral staircase hanging from above protrudes the wooden wall.

Villa Kirk
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Villa Kirk
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Enter it and you enter Kubrick’s Space Odyssey, a completely bright white multimedia room. Suspended at half-height between inside and outside.

Stairs and doors owe their identity to references from the owner’s collection of classic sports cars.

Villa Kirk
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Villa Kirk
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The space is minimal in its material use, with only a few raw materials, the concrete, steel, glass, and wood become the backdrop for the exhibition space.

Due to the complex geometry and continuous forms of the basement we worked with the concrete engineers to develop a seamless project that could be cast in one concrete pour.

Villa Kirk
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Villa Kirk
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The roof slab is propped up by eight 8cm steel tubes that blend in behind the windows.


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Villa Kirk
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© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST


Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
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© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST


Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
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© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
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© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
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© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST


Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST
Villa Kirk
© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST


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Plan - Basement
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Plan - Roof
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Plan - Mancave
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Plan - Ground floor


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Facade 01
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Facade 02
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Facade 03
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Facade 04


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Section