A few weeks ago, we featured a competition won by 3XN to transform the former freight train halls in Aarhus, Denmark into a new and dynamic cultural center. After the break, several more images and diagrams about this new cultural hub for scenography, visual arts and literature.
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why do i want to walk on roof? :S
so you’re an enemy of the architectural themes of modernism?
ohhhhhhhhhhh look at me im on a roof isn’t it amazinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggg
:)
why would you not? its always better to have the choice
I kind of like the design, but I can picture a lot of people rolling down the incline, plus it will be practically impossible to scale in heels.
it IS cool to be able to go on the roof, but at least put some program up there…either that or show us what the view is from up there!
Roof duality centerpieces itself as an act of architectural contemplation. Its what makes a roof the program. Here the problem with such an act intentionally didn’t involve a theme park. How so? Well given: Shiny Surfaces + 42% Incline + Rain = (MUMMWS) miscalculated urban man made water slide. Which could turn the buildings meaning by far more than originally conceived. Of course this would be a rib-tickler for the architects, not to even mention the safety concern such a miscalculated water slide would bring. But at least the form produces an unexpected output that tries to cope with the uncertainty of time.
It might even work better as a waterslide. I personally don´t see the point of going up there otherwise.
well this has just destroyed the front view of the existing building maybe they should of looked at the louvre and walking on the roof i think has become a gimmick
this is a BIG project….is’n it?
I find the initial move fundamentally flawed.
To fill the entire void between the two existing sheds destroys any sense of the original structures, their context and their quiet monumentality.
There is a rising tendency in Danish architecture to ignore context and history in favour of self indulgent form making.
the website in the link is not 3xn’s website. their’s is http://www.3xn.dk
Sorry about that! Now it’s fixed
While the shape is appealing by itself and certainly gives way to interesting interior promise in their gorgeous render. But in context, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. A little too unyielding. It’s height doesn’t give it much of a view outward either, so an inhabitable roof at that steep of an incline is hard to justify.
9:59 AM Jan 2nd
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