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Day 4 | Days Gone By

Biking. Biking. Biking

I have never biked as much or as often as I have in the last three days as I have over the previous year. Copenhagen IS the bike city of the world.

Day 2 of our studio in Copenhagen started off at the Danish Institute of Study Abroad (DIS) where we received a lecture by a feisty Dane. We later took a bicycle tour across 5 different neighborhoods and explore various scales of the Kantzone, the transition between the building and the urban fabric, and its various stages of Private & Public.

We explored waterfront properties in various price ranges, old neighborhood townhomes and reclaimed public spaces.

The tour ended at Carlsberg Brewery, the site of this years studio. We manged to get their in time for our small and quick guided tour of the old brewery site and learn a bit about the history of Carlsberg. The tour ended with free beer at the courtyard.

Copenhagen has been wonderful the last few days. Today we return to the site after a day of biking across the city to explore the new development of Orestad. We stopped by the University of Copenhagen and saw their impressive Tietgenkollegiet, student housing and ended up at the top of the cities development at the 8 House, a housing project designed by BIG.


Day 1 | The First Studio

 Day one, Assignments. Group work

The Denver portion of our four week summer course has started off, and with it the excitement of leaving in under a week has picked up even more. A lot of familiar faces from my cohort have returned from a three week break between the end of Spring Semester. There are also four additional students who will be joining us from other disciplines from the College of Architecture and Planning; 2 from the Landscape Architecture Program, 1 dual Landscape and Architecture and 1 Urban Planning

For a total of 5 class days and one week we will be working on preliminary research and case studies for our Copenhagen project. The site for our studio is located in the old Carlsberg Brewery site located in southwest Copenhagen. Our studio course is intended to formulate an urban design proposal that tries to resolve:

" How form is linked to performance and how you anticipate evolution of program and use over time" 

Some of the things we will investigate is how it operates as a public space. the transition zone between building and landscape/ between city rooms and the relationship between public and private space. 

The students have been grouped into teams of two and over the course of the semester we hope to answer these question. 

I hope that this blog will document and highlight this great opportunity I have in going to Copenhagen Denmark. A vibrant and exciting city to study urban design.