Vejlskovgaard - an agricultural building of the future by LUMO Arkitekter
11/09/2013.
[Odder] Denmark
metalocus, ALEX DURO
metalocus, ALEX DURO
Within the Danish traditional agriculture appears this stable for cows designed by LUMO Arkitekter which attempts to redefine the agriculture through new and innovative architectural spaces.
Inner vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Outside vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Outside vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Outside vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Façade detail. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Outside vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Night vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Outside vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Inner vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Outside vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Façade detail. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Façade detail. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Outside vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Outside vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Façade detail. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Night vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Night vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Night vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Night vision. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Siteplan. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Ground floor plan. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Transverse section. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Sections. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Sections. Image © Jesper Balleby.
Outside vision. Image © Jesper Balleby
Thinking that the most important thing is the confort of the cows and humans, as well as the facilities for the workers, it is projected this stable for cows. Funcionality and flexibility in the design process are its keypoints. Though the develop of the project was stoped during two years because of the economic crisis, this doesn't avoid to the architects to redefine the project following a line of innovative strategies looking after the enviroment.
One of the challenges was to achieve that the surrounding landscape goes into the stable and with the animals, achieving whit it, one more time, the most confortable situation as well as a feeling of being absolutely surrounded by the nature.
Memory of project.
Vejlskovgaard stable relate and conduct to an agriculture under pressure and heavy ongoing changes and challenges. The Danish agriculture needs to be redefined and architecture, landscape and branding have to be addressed together in a new way. The demands are needs for flexibility and the optimal animal and human conditions and sustainable solutions towards local environment and the production itself.
Our proposal for a new cow stable to Vejlskovgaard in Odder won followed by the honoring: “The proposal is wining because of it´s many visionary ideas with a focus on animal welfare and functionality in a flexible design” Adjustments and environmental issue was first on the agenda but in 2008 the overall economical crisis did put the process on hold. By Christmas 2010 the client did restart the process on new terms. We did redesign the initial ideas into the new conditions and ending up with a very redefined and balanced peace of architecture.
The new stable building and the milk production is organized in a star shaped ground plan consisting of 4 barns meeting in a joint physical and optical center. The spread out shape scale down the new building and is thought as an open gesture allowing the surround curvy landscape close to and into the building and the cows – anywhere You have a grand view in and out. The direct interference with the landscape and the existing farm and the close passing main road has been a main goal and issue to achieve throughout the entire creating process. The result is a new functional and symbolic center and a yard space connecting to the old farm, the production and the history.
A steel construction solution is obvious by its lightness and modifying opportunities. By solving the design challenges by modifying standard frames and elements the initial ideas for sustainable and flexibility was also gained. The screening or sidewall is primarily an automatic and movable stable curtain adding a layer of dynamics to the experience of the building over time. The covering is a pre insulated steel sandwich element with a dark grayish brown color on the outside and a light interior. The prefabricated steel panels for the façade and roof came in hole lengths and was precut for fast and minimum waste in mounting.
Texto.- LUMO Arkitekter.
CREDITS.-
Architect.- Mads Lindstroem and Lars Soenderskov.
Collaborators.- Schul Landscape and LRO Horsens (farm consultants), Ramboll (engineer), Niras (engineer), DS Staalkonstruktion A/S and LRO Horsens (structural engineers).
Location.- Favrgaardsvej, Odder, Denmark.
Date.- 2007 (competition), 2012 (completed).
Budget.- 6 millions €.
Area.- 8.800 m2
Client.- Hans Jakob Fenger.
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Lars Soenderskov, Mads Lindstroem. LUMO Architects
LUMO Architects is a young internationally oriented architectural firm with a focus on innovative ideas, sustainable processes and eventful architecture.
LUMO Architects headed by Lars Soenderskov and Mads Lindstroem is grounded in a common desire to pursue in what we believe: Thinking outside the box and make room for the experimental building and the architectural solutions that surprise and stages undiscovered potential. We seeks the architectural edge that appears in the dialogue between the Nordic architectural tradition and global contemporary. Our professional approach to architecture is based on the development of original ideas and concepts based on the task's unique characteristics, place of poetry and the client's wishes.
We gain our inspiration in the intersection between our intuition and experience. Through nuanced work on light, materiality and scale a humanity is created, sustainabillity and aesthetic value of each project is created. We believe that good architecture has a professional obligation to engage in dialogue with contemporary society and play an active role in the world around us. Architecture can and must make a difference and guiding new ways to live and experience on. Therefore, our focus is on sustainable development of our cities and buildings and we believe that ambitious and thoughtful efforts make a difference.
LUMO Architects was founded in the spring 2009 as a competition and sketching based architectural firm.
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