HESTETORVET BRICK BUILDING

The building is situated on the edge of one of the city’s historic squares, marking the transition between a protected cemetery wall and the original Roskilde Station building from 1847.

DISCREET INTEGRATION

There was a desire for a building that harmonizes with the site and features a surface designed to discourage graffiti and poster placement. The solution was a relief brick screen that reflects the materiality of the surroundings and discreetly integrates as a finishing element to the course of the cemetery wall toward the station.

CONSTANTLY CHANGING

The brick screen is arranged in an elliptical shape around the prefabricated unit, with a recess facing the cemetery wall. All bricks are laid in the same direction – from the church wall toward the station – using a special relief bond developed specifically for the elliptical form. The experience of light, shadow, flatness, and form constantly changes throughout the day as one passes the building, as the displacements follow the round shape.

Literature:
A New Golden Age – NORDIC architetcture and landscape – Archipress, 2015.
Arkitekten nr. 6, juni 2014.

Photo: Søren Harder Nielsen

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