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The Ammonium Silos
Name
Kristoffer Schmidt Nielsen
Education degree
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Design
Institute
Architecture and Design
Program
Spatial Design - Architecture, Design and Interiors
Year
2022
The Ammonium Silos - a transformation strategy.
We have transformed three abandoned silos and the surrounding port. The transformation strategy aims at changing the perception of the industrial landscape, while giving agency to others (people and the elements) and welcoming future alterations. Linking the once-was with the could-be. The area is remediated over time with a plant-strategy and layers of history are weaved together in a network of concrete paths of old and new fragments. The project explores the spatial potential of darkness, and the silos are kept as voids – gently transformed into a place to produce and exhibit large scale art.
We have added two buildings - a workshop and a cafe for the practical needs when producing large scale art. They are placed as a part of the landscape answering to the circular shape of the silos.
We want to question whether any building is ever permanent or always part of a continuum of transformations, additions and subtractions.
Is a building ever finished?
Tehnical drawing showing the gap between the concrete wall and steel tank used for stairs and stairlandings, scale 1:10
Illustration of the space between and the void
Construction of balconies and stairlandings, scale 1:50
Openings, scale 1:50
Exhibition space, modelphoto scale 1:50
Stair and stairlanding, modelphoto scale 1:50
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The Royal Danish Academy supports the Sustainable Development Goals
Since 2017 the Royal Danish Academy has worked with the Sustainable Development Goals. This is reflected in our research, our teaching and in our students’ projects. This project relates to the following UN goal(-s)
