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MVRDV WINS COPENHAGEN HIGH-RISE COMPETITION WITH DESIGN 'SKY VILLAGE'


The municipality of Rødovre, an independent municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark, announced MVRDV
and co-architect ADEPT winner of the design competition of the Rødovre Skyscraper. The 116 meter tall
tower accommodates apartments, a hotel, retail and offices. A public park and a plaza are also part
of the privately funded scheme.

The new skyscraper with a total surface of 21,688m2 will be located at Roskildevej, a major artery
East of the centre of Copenhagen. It is after the Frøsilos MVRDV’s second project in Copenhagen.
The skyscraper’s shape reflects Copenhagen’s historical spire and present day high-rise blending in
the skyline of the city, it further combines the two distinctive typologies of Rødovre, the single family
home and the skyscraper in a vertical village. Consideration of these local characteristics leads
to Copenhagen’s first contemporary high-rise.

Responding to unstable markets the design is based on a flexible grid, allowing alteration of the program
by re-designating units. These ‘pixels’ are each 60m2 square and arranged around the central core
of the building, which for flexibility consists of three bundled cores allowing separate access to
the different program segments.

On the lower floors the volume is slim to create space for the surrounding public plaza with retail and
restaurants; the lower part of the high rise consists of offices, the middle part leans north in order
to create a variety of sky gardens that are terraced along the south side. This creates a stacked
neighbourhood, a Sky Village. From this south orientation the apartments are benefitting. The top
of the building will be occupied by a hotel enjoying the view towards Copenhagen city centre.
The constellation of the pixels allows flexibility in function; the building can be transformed by market
forces, however at this moment it is foreseen to include 970m2 retail, 15,800m2 offices, 3,650m2 housing
and 2,000m2 hotel and a basement of 13,600m2 containing parking and storage.

Flexibility for adaptation is one of the best sustainable characteristics of a building. Besides this the
Sky Village will also integrate the latest technologies according to the progressive Danish environmental
standards. Furthermore the plans include a greywater circuit, the use of 40% recycled concrete
in the foundation and a variety of energy producing devices on the façade.

A public park adjacent to the Sky Village is part of the project and will be refurbished with additional
vegetation and the construction of a ‘superbench’, a meandering public path and bench. A playground,
picnic area and exercise areas for elderly citizens are also part of the plan.

Lead architect MVRDV and co-architect ADEPT Architects won the competition from BIG, Behnisch
and MAD. Winy Maas and Jacob van Rijs present the plan today in Copenhagen together with
Anders Lonka and Martin Krogh from local office Adept Architects, Dutch engineering firm ABT
and Søren Jenssen act as consultants for the project. Earlier MVRDV realised the Frøsilos / Gemini
Residence in the port of Copenhagen: a residential project marking a new way in refurbishment
of old silo’s which was highly acclaimed and received international awards.


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CREDITS:
Text: MVRDV
Images: MVRDV / ADEPT Architects