Wood-lined meeting areas that imitate the living room of a house are intended to create a sense of "hyggeligt" or coziness in this office building in Copenhagen, designed by Danish practice Henning Larsen.
Described as "A Home for Housing", the 7,400-square-metre office was completed for KAB, Denmark's largest administrator of non-profit housing which manages over 64,000 housing units across its capital city.
Henning Larsen has designed the KAB headquarters in Copenhagen
In addition to being an office for KAB, the building is a gathering place for 44 housing groups and some 120,000 residents, designed by Henning Larsen to be "representative of Denmark's approach to collectivism, welfare, and the home itself."
This informed the concept of the design, which was based on applying the traditional spaces of the home, such as the living room, kitchen, staircase and garden, to an office building. The building is covered in textured red brick
"We were interested in the play between the office and the home ? the two places in which we spend the majority of our daily lives ? and how we could infuse the headquarters with the best of both worlds," said Signe Kongebro, global design director and partner at Henning Larsen.
The office is organised around a skylit, wood-lined atrium, with a large reception desk and office canteen sitting among large potted trees.
The office is organised around a wood-lined atrium
A wooden staircase at the centre of ...