maritime youth house
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Amager Strandvej 13
DL-2300
Copenhagen
Denmark
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55.6653633 12.6338806
Building names(s): maritime youth house
Architect/Designer: PLOT
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Getting there:From the central station; Københavns Hovedbanegård Take bus 2A – direction: Kastrup Lufthavn. Change bus at Bulgariensgade to bus 77 – direction: Sundbyvester Plads. Get off at Sundby Sejlforening. Walk 2 min to the Maritime Youth House. Take metro to Lergravsparken Station – direction: Lergravsparken Station. Change to bus 77 – direction: Sundbyvester Plads. Get off at Sundby Sejlforening, walk 2 min to the Maritime Youth House.
Last update: 8 March, 2011 | Suggested By LT
Living close to the youth centre I can highly recommend everybody visiting Copenhagen to take a closer look. It is absolutely fantastic situated away from everything but still close to Amager Strand Beach. The youth centre is also a part and parcel of the neighbourhood face-lift around Holmbladsgade and Amager.
By thinking outside the square, the project architects transformed the usually negative issue of a contaminated site (polluted by heavy metals) into a bonus by covering the entire site with a wooden deck (1600m2). Thus the undisturbed seabed required no removal or cleaning. This solution freed up the budget set aside for site remediation ( originally 25% of budget was set aside for cleaning up the site) to be spent on architecture.
The building is shared by two clients, a sail club and a youth house. The youth house needed outdoor space for the kids to play; the sail club needed most of the site to park their boats. The design is the literal results of negotiations between the two contradictory demands. Where the deck rises it allows for boat storage and, at the same time, becomes an exciting play area for the kids. The common room for daily activities is located in the front house, the workshop and storage is in the back corner building. In contrast to the wooden exterior decks the floor in the community space is white concrete and a standard grey concrete in the workshop and storage area. This is meant to reflect the dominance of the outdoor activities; the wooden deck is the actual “room” of the Maritime Youth House.