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FLUID SPACE an Experiential Garden
Name
Camille Nejsig Læsø Nielsen
Education degree
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Architecture
Institute
Architecture and Space
Program
Spatial Design - Architecture, Design and Interiors
Year
2025
The project is an inhabitation of the vacant water tower in Roskilde. Exploring the site-specific potential of the rare industrial infrastructure. With a focus on emphasizing the spatial qualities, the water tower is reimagined as an experiential garden that magnifies the sensory experiences and emphasises the natural phenomena present on site.
This project is developed in collaboration with Karoline Bach Nielsen
Many former infrastructural buildings stand empty as society evolves. How can we transform these structures in ways that preserve their unique identity and character?
This project begins with the existing building itself, studying its quirks, qualities, and atmosphere, to shape a fitting new program, rather than forcing a predefined function onto it.
Experiential Garden: a space that engages the senses, emotions, and mind of its visitors through immersive, interactive, and multisensory experiences.
The project is a permanent transformation of the inactive water tower in Roskilde, reimagining the former water tank as an experiential garden, and the former restaurant on top as a beacon for the local area, functioning as a public pavilion and viewpoint overlooking Roskilde.
The project focuses on magnifying the rare location and experience found within the water tank and creating a calm public space on top to connect, reflect and simply be.
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AXONOMETRIC USER DIAGRAM SCALE 1:100, CONTEXT SECTION SCALE 1:500
TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY
TRANSFORMATION STRATEGY
Transformation strategy: focusing on emphasizing human experiences in relation to the existing spatial qualities and phenomena present on site.
We believe that we need to examine existing structures with care and a site-specific approach, valuing qualities over quantities. The strategy is divided into four key elements:
INHABITING THE UNINHABITED: Reimagining uninhabited spaces and seeing potential in vacant structures. Domesticating the building, making it more human scale by creating accessible design that emphasizes human dimensions and perception.
SPATIAL QUALITIES: Mapping the potential in the existing structure and the qualities of the phenomena already present on site.
HUMAN EXPERIENCE: With a phenomenological approach, we focus on the senses and how the space is perceived.
FLEXIBILITY: Working intentionally with a permanent transformation that allows the space to change over time in relation to the changes of the seasons, inhabitants, and use.
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SITE MAPPING
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VISITOR JOURNEY
FLUID SPACE an Experiential Garden
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BEHAVIOROLOGY
PROGRAMATIC LAYERS, SECTION DRAWING, SCALE 1:50, FORMAT 1100MM X 1000MM
ROSKILDE WATER TOWER, RAISED SITE PLAN, GLOWING FACADES
REMATERIALIZATION
MODELS
EXISTING STRUCTURE, ROSKILDE WATER TOWER, SCALE 1:50
EXISTING STRUCTURE, ROSKILDE WATER TOWER, SCALE 1:50
SITE MODEL, SCALE 1:500
SITE MODEL, SCALE 1:500
LANDSCAPE, SOAP MODEL
EXPLORATORY SOAP MODEL, LANDSCAPE, SCALE 1:100
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)
