Cubic Houses | ADEPT

The result is a design that breaks down the building volume into several individual cubes stacked on top of each other. The configuration of cubes meets the rhythm of a human scale and works against long stretches of street with no activity. The design adapts to the overall scale of the neighborhood and aims at a varied and lively atmosphere along the central canal.

photography by © Rasmus Hjortshøj

In its basic concept, Cubic Houses is a regular building slap with spacious and simple apartments layouts. Maintaining the vertical stairways, the design shifts the cubes in relation to each other, both at the ground and higher up, to create niches and micro-climatic adaptions around the building. Another plus is the breakdown of the scale and an impression of a varied and detailed complex as opposed to a massive block.

photography by © Rasmus Hjortshøj

The Cubic Houses building site is located in the south part of Oerestad, Copenhagen, in the area named ‘Kanalkvarteret’. This urban area is going through intense development at the moment, being one of the more attractive urban development areas in Copenhagen, close to both the city center and the natural landscape at Amager Fælled.

The building is made up of eight cubes with changing brick facades adding diversity in the overall facade expression. Where cubes has overhang the bricks are wrapped also onto the undersides of the cubes, to keep a clean simplicity to the overall choice of material and understanding of the ‘stacked boxes’ concept of the geometry.

photography by © Rasmus Hjortshøj

Project Info ;

Architects : ADEPT
Project Year : 2017
Collaborators : Moe
Project Area : 125000.0 ft2
Photographs : Rasmus Hjortshøj
Project Location : Copenhagen, Denmark
Manufacturers : Dalton, Unoform, Randers Tegl
Client : H projects / Frank Hansen / Preben Hydeskov
Team : Martin Laursen, Martin Krogh, Anders Lonka, Jesper Skjoldborg, Spasoje Radomilovic, Tatyana Eneva, Jens Peter Nielsen