Egernsund Tegl

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Address: Hjernøvej v. E45/Exit 73, Kliplev
Size: approx. 1200 m²
Client: Egernsund Tegl amba
Landscape Architect: Arkitema Plan & Landscape
Engineer: Bascon
Awards: 1st prize
Competition year: 2008
Type of competition: Closed, national

The new domicile of Egernsund Tegl will be the setting for the sales and marketing of a wide range of brick products from brickworks all over Denmark. The domicile is located in the landscape like a large red brick, just beside the South Jutland motorway. From a distance, it will be seen as a clear reference to the traditional Danish red brick; a building which displays its product in a highly concrete manner, and thereby provides an obvious and innovative sales window for Egernsund Tegl's extensive range of products. Here you will be able to experience the many possibilities of brick as a material.
The new sales office is very faithful to the brick as shape: a shape which we challenge in the building's slight curve towards the motorway, which at the same time emphasises the brick's soft starting-point in clay. A mirror pool introduces water as a central element, and gives the building further dynamics and signal value. The curving form is also a shape that supports natural ventilation in the building, and results in an exciting interior, with a large salesroom on four different levels. The building's surroundings have been formed as an extensive green landscape featuring an outdoor exhibition of brick products.