Marmormolen - LM Project - Competition proposal

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Address: Langelinie and Marmormolen, Copenhagen, DK
Size: 60.000 m²
Client: ATP ejendomme, By og Havn
Architect: Arkitema and AGU v. Cecil Balmond
Landscape: Arkitema
Engineer: AGU v. Cecil Balmond

Five towers will meet on a bridge and create a navigation mark. Towers are grouped in two and three body building, which in their design refers to maritime signal traditions: navigation marks and estacades. They have been realised in a precise cubic form language, with the general composition principle of marking arrivals and departures from Copenhagen in a way which enjoys a logical relationship with the city and sends signals far out into the Øresund.
We utilise the entire building field in a scale that accords with the general scale of the location and gain the opportunity to form a space between the three bodies on the building Langelinje side. Here we have chosen to locate the high volume, in recognition of the fundamental difference between the two quays: Langelinie is by its nature bigger and tougher than the Marmormolen quay, and is thereby logically much better able to bear a large building volume than the smaller Marmormolen. By placing the tall building on the Langelinie side, we also avoid the problem of casting shadows over the neighbouring buildings.
We the bridge as a simple line in the sky - literally a "sky line, which discreetly links two related buildings on each side of the basin. Our ambition has been to make the actual bridge as simple as possible, while at the same time giving Copenhagen a unique spatial experience: a viewing platform which will encourage movement.