Structure studio BIG has accomplished the headquarters for Danish materials provider Dymak in Odense, Denmark, sheltering its rounded mass-timber construction with a roof evoking a Möbius strip.
Perched on a verdant web site overlooking town’s Glisholm Lake, the two,800-square-metre round constructing combines workplaces and showrooms round an open-air courtyard.
BIG’s design aimed to be low carbon, utilising a mass-timber construction and “photo voltaic roof” that’s clad with 880 custom-shaped photovoltaic panels.
“The Dymak headquarters is conceived as a tour de pressure in low-carbon materiality: mass timber building, clay tiles, clay mortar, and eelgrass decrease the embodied carbon of the constructing whereas offering a heat and natural ambiance,” studio founder Bjarke Ingels stated.
“The photo voltaic roof is angled to optimise energy manufacturing, minimise photo voltaic warmth acquire, and maximise views of the neighbouring wetlands,” Ingels continued.
“The resultant sculptural kind is harking back to a Möbius strip in geometry in addition to a tribute: not solely does it look distinctive, it additionally performs uniquely.”
Externally, the headquarters consists of a grid-like, timber-and-glass facade clad with vertical fins and shading parts.
Its undulating roof is raised in the direction of the north to supply panoramic views of the close by forest and lake, and slopes in the direction of the south to offer shading.
The encompassing out of doors house has been designed by BIG’s inside panorama staff with planted areas and brick-paved walkways that information guests into the constructing.
The headquarters opens to a double-height house wrapped in glazing, earlier than main into the central courtyard conceived by the studio as a “inexperienced amphitheatre”.
This round courtyard is full with planted terraces and stepped seating that handle the constructing’s sloped kind.
At floor degree, the quantity homes a showroom and photograph studio, alongside health services, whereas the higher ground accommodates open-plan workspaces, assembly rooms and lounge areas.
All through the constructing is a fabric palette of uncooked and pure supplies, together with wooden, clay, cork, eelgrass and recycled paper fibres used for the ceilings.
Brick-tiled flooring is used all through to strengthen “the connection between the within and outdoors”, whereas a mezzanine degree connects the 2 flooring.
In response to the studio, the mix of supplies was knowledgeable by Dymak’s materials portfolio.
“Conceived as each office and materials showcase, the constructing acts as a dwelling catalogue for Dymak’s portfolio of tactile and pure supplies, whereas additionally supporting a extra social and versatile on a regular basis use by means of shared areas, a inexperienced courtyard, and a gymnasium,” BIG stated.
Different workplace headquarters lately featured on Dezeen embody a trio of “cloud buildings” designed by MAD for know-how firm Tencent in Shenzhen, China.
In the meantime, BIG additionally lately designed a sequence of buildings for a “new sort of city college” in Bentonville, Arkansas.
The images is by Rasmus Hjortshoj.
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