THE RAFT

Location: Christians Brygge 37

Period: June 3 – August 31

The Raft is presented as a sensory structure landing on one of Copenhagen canal’s floating platforms, aiming at offering visitors a direct and playful sensorial experience with the water. Inspired by underwater sea animals and working with geometries and technics of sailings boats, the structure is designed to capture the movements of the water into the colorful roof and create a living animal.

Illustrations: Studio Coquille. Render by: Daniella Netrebko

ARCHITECTS:
Studio Coquille
Tan & Blixenkrone

PARTNERS:
Kvadrat
CLT Denmark
Dan-fender

SUPPORTED BY:
BEVICA Foundation

SEE MORE:
www.tanblixenkrone.com + www.coquille.dk

In a city that shaped its identity and traditions around it’s harbor life, the visitors are slowly invited to observe and feel the present environment but also to read about the challenges that rising sea levels bring to coastal cities and populations, and about the loss of underwater biodiversity, due to global warming.

The interactive and bright red roof is a call to the pressing and unprecedent needs to adapt and change, a reality that is shared all around the globe but with deep inequalities in how to face them.

Special care in the design is to guarantee easy access to the platform to people with reduced mobilities and to create a space where everyone feels welcome. We believe that finding solutions to our major challenges can only be achieved in a collective and inclusive way.  The space aims to become a welcoming environment for talks and events that can create awareness, discussions and reflect upon the topic of inclusivity in general.

The partnership consist of different partners from different fields. In addition to the two architect studios, partners bring different expertise:

The textile company Kvadrat provides the highly durable fabric which makes the roof, with resistant properties, which allows for the material to be reused in furniture design in the pavilion’s afterlife.

The production company CLT Danmark (CLT stands for Cross Laminated Timber), brings an alternative to conventional materials like concrete, masonry or steel, with a material that has a low environmental impact and generates almost no waste onsite.

BEVICA Foundation works to make a difference for people with mobility disabilities and believes in creating a unified society that is designed for everyone – regardless of functional abilities and has advised project leaders on the Raft.

“The relation to the water is used as a central thread to build a continuous narration and bring the visitor’s attention to different topics and findings. The collaborations with the sponsors together with the chosen materials and the detailing of the structure helps greatly to refine and requestion the initial topic, make it more precise and straight forward!”

Marion de Saint Blanquat, Frederik Mads Svendsen, Anna Katrine Tan

AFTERLIFE

The pavilion is built to be disassembled in high quality materials. Floaters and wooden platform will be returned to the manufacturers and reused. The fabric will be used by architecture students to create new public installations.

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