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Frederiksberg Main Library in the city of Copenhagen, commissioned a "reading lounge" in the main library room. In collaboration with industrial designer Martin Larsen, the solution created a new space, while integrating the existing structure. Due to the increased use of the internet, the library has become more a book pick up spot and less an archive where the user physically searches for and discovers books. The premise of the project is to create a reading space where user and books meet. Taking advantage of the rigid character of the library as archive, the proposal maintained the frame and format of the book shelves, replacing the books of the niche in question, with a sinuous seating arrangement. This created a frame where the reader becomes the main character, instead of the bookshelves.

The Archive Series are investigations on space and books, aiming to blur the borders between art and design. Clearly non functional, they aim to appeal to the senses, creating a narrative which more often than not, reaches the absurd. Departing from ideas of density and micro spaces, they aim to explore the traditional relationships that humans have to books. Private collections have existed for centuries, but when this is added to nomadic behaviour, curious contradictions arise; this is the area studied by Archive II. How can an individual travel with it’s own library, given that books are so heavy? Is this an absurdity? Archive II is a nomadic library, an impossible transport system and an intimate space. Inspired by ancient travelling libraries from the Far East, which visited courts and cities, Archive II transforms this into a "micro room", where walking and reading coexist as refuge and transport in the imagination. The Archive Series has been exhibited at the Royal Dan...

For a Danish glassware manufacturer, David Garcia and Martin Larsen have designed a range of drinking glasses, bowls and pitcher. The concept behind the range is a combination of maximal functionality through a minimal design. All elements have been created, using the same conical shape, which allows stacking with content. Thus the glasses invite to be used beyond the obvious functionality. The series is composed of drinking glasses in three sizes (150ml, 250ml and 400ml) a 1litre pitcher and two sizes of bowls. MODUS was launched in April 2006 and was awarded the RED DOT Award and the international IF Design Award.

In the contemporary urban space, at all scales, we often find potential sites which are unused and overlooked. These can be found between building facades, standby building sites, parks, squares or water fronts. Some of these potential sites can only be used for a relatively short amount of time, before they are developed by subsequent plans, but in the meanwhile they could be rented or used on a loan basis. On the other hand, fitness and sport facilities are seldom found in city centres. Squash, for example, is a sport in high demand in high dense areas, and those that exist are hidden away in deep inside buildings or basements. There are about 200 squash courts in Denmark, approximately 18 of them in Copenhagen. It is the aim of this project to satisfy these demands with a typology which is found somewhere between building and product. A modular structure, used at months at a time, that can be transported, put together, dismounted and stored with relative ease, while its modular stru...

WORKSHOP AT COPENHAGEN ARCH. SCHOOL by David A. Garcia David A. Garcia Introduction: If there is anything that architecture has tried to avoid through out its history, it has probably been movement, that is: buildings should not move. Nonetheless, and especially since the middle of the last century, we find more and more examples of, if not buildings that move, at least huge parts of them expressing dynamics. Some even consider various types of transport methods as architecture; after all, a 747 on a transatlantic flight carries, feeds, entertains, and sleeps more people than most hotels. Students of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

Close to the Gredos mountain range, bordering a nature reserve in the west of Spain, this summer house was designed under very specific demands by the local authorities, only allowing wooden carpentry, pitched roofs and granite stone facades. The design follows these constraints, and responds to the client's desire to collect rain water and offer a large area for solar panels. The result was an inverted pitched roof, at angles to allow sun to enter the house in the winter time, and offering shade in the summer, with a large roof surface to the south for solar panels, hidden from view at eye level. Cooling and heating are supplied by a constant 15 degrees Celsius airflow from underground tubes and grey water is stored for irrigation. The project is under construction.

The gallery is one of the most prominent contemporary art venues in Copenhagen, located in the Islands Brygge area. The client wished to divide the gallery into two separate rooms and functions: storage/show room, and gallery space. New divisions and wall surface treatments were required, as well as creating a new administration area. One of the main elements of the proposal was a movable double bladed door (instead of a “wall and standard door” solution). This 3 meter by 2,4 meter door, ritualizes the event of inviting potential buyers into the show room and art storage area, while offering an extra 9m2 of exhibit space to the gallery if deemed necessary. The playfulness of the door element, allows a free interaction between user and space, as well as offering new possibilities for artists who work with site specific projects.