BHAGWAAN MAHAVEER SCHOOL OF

ARCHITECTURE

Architecture & Design III - HOUSING CASE STUDY

“8 HOUSE
BY THE BIG ARCHITECTS”

GROUP 5
Kapil Atreya
Niramayee Godara
Rahul Kumar
Roopanshi Goel
Siddhant Shrivastav
Tushar chaudhary
INTRODUCTION
• Architect: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
• Location: Southern Orestrad,Copenhagen,
Denmark
• Type: Commercial, Office, Residential,
Multi Unit Housing
• Client: St. Frederikslund Holding
• Project Area: 61,000 sq.m, 476 residences
• Project Year: 2010
• Total Cost: $118 million

The BIG architect designed the project as a perimeter block instead of stacking, they layered the components of the
program one on top of the other like a cake, a care center, and offices are placed near the base, so that they can
benefit from direct contact with the street, while the different type of apartments- townhouse, flats and penthouses
offer living for people in all lifes stages above.
 LOCATION

DENMARK COPENHAGEN ORESTAD

CLIMATE: Cold & Temperate

Hottest month: July 17°C Coldest month: January 0°C

BASIC IDEA
• The idea is to concieve an entire
neighbourhood or city in one building.

• Instead of stimulating different houses next to

each other architect stacked different functions
like an urban level cake.

• A house offering homes in all its bearings for

people in all of life’s stages: the young and the
old, nuclear families and singles, families that
grow and families that become smaller.
 DESIGN EVOLUTION

Site dimension 230m*110m Direct passage from Amager common

Stacking different functions like urban cake
through the building block to Hein
Heinsens Square

Embracing the pedestrian and also Lifting up the northeast corner to get Pushing the whole southwest corner
creating two plaza and direct connection more access to sun and to get a almost to the ground to open the
between two urban space in east and west fantastic view above the opposite southwestern courtyard to create a
direction neighbour and the roofscape view to Amager common
ABOUT THE STRUCTURE

• Offices and shops on ground floor.

• Above it Two storeyed row houses lies with front
garden and connecting path(so that kids and people
meet and visit each other).
• On the top of that there is a layer of Apartment
buildings.
• And above it there are two layers of Penthouse.
• Offices and shops have deeper floors than housing.
Therefore at lower residences a path or roof garden
appears. Private garden or a communal path.
• Courtyard bath in the afternoon sun
• The two distortion of the block necessary to optimize
and provide each function max. daylight and view
• Normally social interactions
are reserved to ground level
whereas here a ramp provides
social interactions all the way
to the top of the building to
produce a lively urban
neighbourhood.
• This sense of community is also
increased with 5300 sq.f of • And in order to provide the residential units with
community space. daylight and views of marshes and grazing lands
that sit directly to the south, they raised the
building’s northeast corner to 10 stories, sloping
it to only one story at the diagonally opposite
corner by stepping down each successive line of
apartments
• The different horizontal layers have achieved a
quality of their own: the apartments benefit from
the view, sunlight and fresh air, while the office
leases merge with life on the street.
SECTION
• Shops and offices prefer direct
contact with the customers at street
level and large interconnected floors.
Generally directly sunlight is not
needed in commercial blocks. Hence
the whole commercial is placed in the
bottom of the building.

• Just opposite goes for housing which

loves sunshine but hate the ground
floor for privacy. Hence upper floors
is for dwellings.
SECTION
GREEN ROOF
• The 8 House project won the 2010
Scandinavian Green Roof Award. The
design was specifically commended for
the way the green roofs have become a
part of the buildings aesthetic as they
slope down 11 stories towards the canal
edge.

• The moss-sedum roof covers an extraordinarily

long, steep and sloping roof surface descending 11
floors downward to the edge of a canal.
• Green spaces upon the roof and within the
courtyard are strategically placed to reduce the
urban heat island effect as well as providing a
visual relief to the inhabitants.
PATHWAYS
• One continuous mountain path which
moves all the way to the north-eastern
corner connects to the upper part
continues all the way to the top of the
block and all the way go down to bottom
again

• The public path allows people to bike

all the way from the ground floor to
the top, moving alongside
townhouses with gardens, winding
through an urban perimeter block.
INTERIOR SPACES
INFERENCE
• The 8 House masterfully recreates the horizontal social connectivity
and interaction of the streets of a village neighbourhood through a
series of delightful accessible ramps in a mixed use, multifamily
housing project.
• The skilful shaping of the mass of the facility provides an fascinating
sculptural form while creating the ramped pedestrian street system
and providing full depth dwelling units which are filled with light
and views.
• People really live in this newly created neighbourhood with
shopping, restaurants, an art gallery, office facilities, childcare,
educational facilities and the sound of children playing. This is a
complex and exemplary project of a new typology”.
REFERENCE
• http://www.archdaily.com/83307/8-house-big
• https://www.e-architect.co.uk/copenhagen/8-house
• http://ca.archello.com/en/project/8-house
• https://www.dezeen.com/2010/10/22/8-house-by-big-2/
• https://architizer.com/projects/8-house/
• http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/7867---house?v=preview
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XgDAKny7Qs