Rotor Penthouse

A 3-dimesnional rendering of the Rotor

Project Details

• Project Name: Rotor
• Location: Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004-2006
• Building typology: Penthouse
• Principal Architect: J. Mayer H.
• Project Architect: Sebastian Finchh
• Design Team: Marcus Blum, Guvenc Ozel, Jan-Christoph Stockebrand (in collaboration with Jens Martin Skibsted)
• On-Site architect: Tomas Quistorf Soerensen

View of the interiors of the penthouse

The Building

Overlooking the city of Copenhagen, Rotor is envisaged as an urban apartment, which combines new media and technological effects with sensitive residential design. Employing extra sensorial elements like sound patterns and light pulsation, the space plays with a delicate balance between comfort and surprise

View of the pivotal media column

The Strategy

The functions within the Rotor pulsate around a central twirling media column. Each of the four programmatic pockets are organised along panoramic views into the city. The media column in the center incorporates various technological devices for entertainment, control, information and communication. By rotation, these different media services mould and blur the fixed program into a dynamic space continuum.

Credits

• Text: Courtesy, the architect
• Photographs by Stuart McIntire, Courtesy of the architect
• Compiled and edited by Varun M. Ajani