Danish designer David Thulstrup has renovated a 218-year-old canal-side warehouse in Copenhagen to create 4 flats outlined by “silent luxurious”.
Named Strandgade, the warehouse was one in every of a number of on the Christianshavn canal initially used to retailer items, with this one particularly constructed with flooring for animal hides to be hung to desiccated.
Thulstrup utilized a pure materials palette all through the renovation of the heritage-listed website, responding to the constructing’s industrial historical past by highlighting its unique options.
Gigantic structural pine beams that maintain up the flooring have been stripped by hand to take away chalk, acrylic paint and resin.
“The standard of the unique beam constructions was so excessive that they have been preserved – many years of paint was eliminated with cleaning soap to disclose the handsome wooden beneath,” Thulstrup informed Dezeen.
“I wished to disclose the great thing about all of it, utilizing a diminutive palette of unique supplies out of respect for the constructing, reminiscent of rendered partitions, plain pine planks and Finnish stone,” mentioned Thulstrup. “Every thing pertains to the historic constructing.”
In step with the beams, Dinesen Douglas pine planks have been used for the flooring, which have been laid in various widths of 15, 20 and 25 centimetres – according to the heritage necessities.
Thulstrup defined that the flooring have been completed in white so as to add lightness to the house, supposed to offset the peak limitations of the ceilings.
Layers of recent additions have been stripped again to disclose the constructing’s structural brick partitions, which have been internally rendered in clay.
“Having the render, or ‘puds’ in Danish, on all of the surfaces was essential – it is a pure breathable clay product of Danish chalk and sand, and the one one we’re allowed to operate in protected buildings in Denmark,” mentioned Thulstrup.
As a result of heritage-listed standing of the constructing, restrictions have been in place that circumscribed adjustments to the ground plan, which means no recent partitions might be added.
“Engaged on a metamorphosis like this and collaborating with the Company for Tradition and Locations in Denmark entails accepting the challenges of restraint and training a deep restraint for the constructing and its historical past,” acknowledged Thulstrup.
Every of the 220-square-metre flats has an open-plan structure, with two central cubes integrated – one housing a stairwell and the opposite for fitted kitchens and bogs.
In the meantime, a raise clad in Sorensen leather-based as a nod to the historical past of the constructing as a former disguise warehouse, was additionally added.
Elsewhere, the color scheme and inside finishes have been designed to play into the constructing’s earlier operate, with a tan and white cow-print daybed integrated alongside leather-based seating and chairs upholstered in fluffy white materials.
Delicate parts have been added to mix in with the scheme, reminiscent of home windows completed in steel-painted graphite gray and customized aluminium lights.
“Total, there are earthy hues of ochre and orange, together with airy gray tones and pale woods, in distinction to the blue skies and the altering colors of the Christianshavns canal,” mentioned Thulstrup.
“All the alternatives I made have been about exclusivity and silent luxurious on this very particular canal-side website.”
Baltic brown granite found as a load-bearing basis within the unique constructing was repurposed and used to clad the lavatory partitions and fittings, whereas freestanding baths have been additionally made out of blocks of the stone.
“It was about elevating every little thing – we may have chosen an ordinary bathtub however making it from one strong block of the identical stone from the unique constructing connects it on to the historical past in addition to being an expensive up to date insertion,” Thulstrup acknowledged.
On the bottom flooring, widespread house for residents was created, with a kitchenette and vast eating desk, wine rooms, a sauna and cupboard space.
Comprised of slim crimson bricks, the flooring proceed from the within to out of doors areas. A courtyard with an out of doors bathe was supposed for operate after swimming within the harbour, whereas there’s additionally a berth for a diminutive boat.
Different warehouse conversions featured on Dezeen embody a Porto warehouse remodeled right into a “home of many faces” by Fala Atelier and an east London warehouse conversion by Sudio McW for local weather activists and filmmakers Jack Harries and Alice Aedy.
