A good idea

AR Awards: Water Tower Conversion

December 13, 2006 7:17 AM - Lloyd Alter, Toronto


Water towers are often "formally crude, over-engineered and top
heavy" (although there are some nice ones about) and there is usually
nothing under them but air. Here is a brilliant use of that space:
fill it with apartments! Since the tower is often built on the
highest spot of land, the views will be great. What a wonderful
reinvention of an underutilized structure.


From ::Architectural Review:

In this example the architects have fitted 40 apartments and a youth
centre around the tower's core, by occupying the space that sits
between its hexagonal and dodecagonal structures.
There are two plan types: a simple orthogonal unit; and a
triangulated unit that (when paired up) shares the diamond-shaped
space defined by four columns. The external form is articulated by a
series of bay windows and balconies. R. G.

Architect
Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, Copenhagen
Photographs
Jens Lindhe, 1
Torben Eskerod, 2
Tel +45 3393 7350; fax +45 3393 5360
Email dorte@dortemandrup.dk

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