Bikuben Student Residence, aart Architects: Bikubens Kollegiefond
Bikuben Kollegiet, Danmark
Copenhagen Student Residence, Ørestad North, Denmark, design by aart architects
19 Jan 2007
The Bikuben Student Residence
Dates built: 2003-06
Architects: aart a/s
Loneliness and lack of social relations are major problems for many students. Bikuben student residence provides the framework for the study years and improves the possibilities of a community spirit emerging in a widespread social network.
The main shape is very serene and conveys in itself the hostel’s founding principles of community and equality. To provide the greatest possible contact between common and private rooms, while at the same time ensuring the privacy of each residence, the residences and the common rooms are connected in a double spiral surrounding an atrium.
Thus, the limitations of the student’s living quarters are widened to incorporate the entire building and the social contact areas, and the freedom of the individual is considered to a maximum degree.
Concrete tectonics and social responsibility merge, and the building is embedded in its place and alters its conditions.
Bikuben Kollegiet – Building Information
Programme: Student residence of the future. 107 hostel residences with common functions. Total consulting services. Best project in international closed architecture competition.
Client: Bikubens Kollegiefond
Engineer: Rambøll
Address: Njalsgade, Ørestad North, Copenhagen
Total Area: Approx. 7,000m2
Bikuben Student Residence : photographs by Torben Eskerod – 2006
Bikuben Student Residence design : aart architects
aart a/s: Arkitekter MAA are based in Århus, Danmark
Location: Copenhagen, Zealand, Denmark, northern Europe
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