丹麦哥本哈根的澳大利亚风格公寓设计丨Stance Studio

Architect：Stance Studio

Location：København, Denmark; | ;

Project Year：2021

Category：Apartments

From the launching point of a painting by an Indigenous artist, Stance Studio has brought the palette of the Australian landscape to this heavily textured, inner Copenhagen Apartment interior.

At less than 60 square meters internally, the transformation of this previously dark and closed-in apartment is the result of careful spatial planning moves and the use of selected textures to create a vibrant and light home for the new inhabitants.

Within such a small footprint, it was critical that every design decision was considered thoroughly to create a powerful, yet cosy and cohesive home. The result embodies these ideas, while the expression of craft in the materials and construction creates a sensory delight for the occupants.

The owners of the apartment, both designers in their own rights, wanted an interconnected home with spaces which felt independent of each other, while cohesive as a whole.

Using a painting (Untitled) by Indigenous Australian artist Albert Namatjira as a palette guide, the approach involved weaving the colours of the australian landscape into the spaces, while incorporating their nordic context.

There was a desire to incorporate inbuilt and freestanding custom furniture elements and ultimately express craft as a feature throughout the renovation.

The apartment in very compact, and our young clients were also restrained by a tight budget. This meant that every design decision had to be very considered and powerful to achieve the maximum from the project.

Through very targeted spatial moves, the apartment is made up of two generous rooms to the street, one for living and the other for sleeping. An access hallway divides the apartments in half and connects the front rooms to the kitchen and bathroom at the rear

The kitchen has an outlook to a historic church through the courtyard and accommodates a ‘breakfast nook’ as well as stairs to the courtyard below.

Approached almost as a giant piece of furniture, the design response draws heavily on craft and texture to engage with the occupants, rather than being a passive backdrop to their lives.

A key spatial element is the dividing wall between the front rooms, crafted from Birch plywood and detailed with Dinesen Douglas Fur. The large opening allows the apartment to function and feel like a much bigger space while relating back to the materiality on the other side of the house.

Meticulous detailing of the custom bench seat within the breakfast corner embrace the intimate scale of this area while the bold wall colouring allows this zone to feel distinct from those around it.

In each space, the materials work to create the Scandinavian coziness that Copengahen in known for, while relating to places much further away such as the clients home countries of Australia and Norway.

Thresholds within the apartment work hard to link, separate and communicate between the key spaces of the home. Each has a different language yet facilitates a cohesive and easy transition through the rooms.

Recycled Douglas Fur (offcuts from the flooring manufacturer, Dinesen) is used in various applications throughout the house to bring its warm tones and texture into each room.

The pink tones of the Fyr were paired with more yellow-white of birch plywood.

Other colours were brought in by using natural linoleum in the kitchen, which reflects its light tones to the green Japanese tiles.

The existing brick wall was a valuable contribution to the palette also, which when paired down with a 'white-wash' to become a dappled pastel colour, complimented the other tones of the house perfectly.

Once again bringing the recycled Dinesen into the project in a new capacity, a custom dining table stained a striking blue colour, with brass inlays further elevates and links the material palette of the home.

The clients are a young couple, both designers, who hail from Norway and Australia respectively. The live with their dog, Nanna.

As the project was undertaken at the height of the pandemic, (when the world seemed bigger than ever) there was a particular process of incorporating aspects of their home countries into the interior of their new home in inner Copenhagen.

Due to time and budget constraints, the clients undertook much of the work themselves which has further enriched the result of the project.

Sustainability is a huge focus for our practice in all projects. In this project, a focus was on recycled materials or responsibly sourced where it was not possible to recycle (for example FSC certified timber).

There was a focus on craft which has meant that the construction process itself can be celebrated throughout the life of the home, but also easily recycled again as individual materials at the end of its life.

Bringing such clear and far-removed influences from outside countries together, to combine with the local context has created a unique apartment full of life and texture.

Particularly within the Danish context which, although highly regarded. can be accused of being somewhat homogeneous, this project breaks the mould and brings something extremely fresh to the Nordic architectural scene.

The custom and inbuilt furniture elements hark back to a period within design where the architects were undertaking much more than just the building itself, creating an extremely holistic home and design response.

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