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Cubic Houses aim to balance the client’s wish for a large amount of square-meters with the envisioned urban life of the new development neighborhood.

Courtesy of ADEPT – Photographs : Rasmus Hjortshøj

The result is a design that breaks down the building volume into several individual cubes stacked on top of each other. The configuration of cubes meets the rhythm of a human scale and works against long stretches of street with no activity. The design adapts to the overall scale of the neighborhood and aims at a varied and lively atmosphere along the central canal.
Courtesy of ADEPT – Concept
In its basic concept, Cubic Houses is a regular building slap with spacious and simple apartments layouts. Maintaining the vertical stairways, the design shifts the cubes in relation to each other, both at the ground and higher up, to create niches and micro-climatic adaptions around the building. Another plus is the breakdown of the scale and an impression of a varied and detailed complex as opposed to a massive block. Courtesy of ADEPT – Photographs : Rasmus Hjortshøj
The Cubic Houses building site is located in the south part of Oerestad, Copenhagen, in the area named ‘Kanalkvarteret’. This urban area is going through intense development at the moment, being one of the more attractive urban development areas in Copenhagen, close to both the city center and the natural landscape at Ama...