Glass Butterfly Holbaek, Zealand Bus Shelter Building, Danish Architecture Images
Glass Butterfly in Holbaek
Bus Shelter on Sjælland, Denmark – design by Form4 Architecture, architects
4 Apr 2017
Glass Butterfly, Holbaek
Location: Holbaek, northeastern Sjælland, Denmark
Design: Form4 Architecture, architects
Glass Butterfly in Holbaek
FORM4 ARCHITECTURE AWARDED WITH AMERICAN PRIZE FOR ARCHITECTURE 2017
The competition was to take a bus shelter, an atypical, ubiquitous object within the public realm, and create a design for a rural area of Denmark under the sponsorship of a glazing manufacturing company. The point of departure for the architecture of this entry is the formal negotiation between the delicacy of the glass and its structural integrity to meet the project?s programmatic purpose.
The design needed to be self-referential and authoritative in the landscape. Trees, weaving grass, and big canopies were key inspirational organic forms. The gentle nature of the Danish environment became the source for the proposed biomorphic volume.

Like a graceful butterfly, this structure radiates its immaterial presence to its surroundings during the day as well as night. This scalable transparent container, almost a frozen membrane, is a place of protection, sheltering users from rain, wind, and sun.

Despite its seemingly imminent flight from the ground, this artifact is securely anchored to the soil through unobtrusive steel connections. Maximum structural integrity is...