Steven Holl Architects was commissioned by City Development in Copenhagen to design T-Husene

Steven Holl Architects, a New York-based firm, has unveiled its design for T-Husene a mixed-use project in Ørestad, a developing area in Copenhagen, Denmark. The firm was commissioned by City Development in Copenhagen to design the project.

Scheduled to break ground in the second half of 2007, T-Husene will include approximately 194,000 square feet of residential space in five towers above 134,550 square feet of commercial space. It will feature an 86,000-square-foot constructed landscape.

The firm says multiple elevations of green space on top of the commercial space and “dancing” T-shaped towers set a “new example for residential typologies based on the concept of urban porosity.” The T-shaped buildings, it notes, maximize residential floor space and views. Each tower will include 50 apartments in 22 configurations ranging from 785 square feet to 1,453 square feet.

“We wanted to create a sense of autonomy [and] individuation, particularly for each apartment and tower,” Steven Holl said in a statement. “One of the failures of modern housing comes from the lack of individualization. Concepts should not be based on the mass, but on individuals. We aim for an architecture that is in connection to each human being. Therefore, new typologies need to be creative, of which the dancing Ts are an example.”

Holl said the beauty of Ørestad comes from the combination of urban density, nature preservation and convenient access to the existing city via public transportation. “It is a sharp contrast to the American urban sprawl,” he stated, “which is characterized by highways and endless seas of houses.”

Steven Holl Architects is also designing the Herning Center of the Arts in Denmark's central Jutland region. The firm has offices in New York and Beijing with a staff of 49. It recently designed the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa and The Swiss Residence in Washington, D.C.

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