Nord Office Hall
A former tram depot turned into a daylight office for 240 people, with the old roof trusses kept and exposed.
Location
Copenhagen, DK
Sector
Year
2024
Client
Nord Group
Area
3 600 m²
Budget
€9.6m
Programme
Offices, workshop, canteen
Photography
J. Lindqvist
(A-113) Overview
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01.1 — Brief
Competition
Invited, 2021
Design
2021 — 2022
On site
2022 — 2024
Opened
March 2024
One big shed, many small rooms.
The depot was one hall under steel trusses. We kept the shell, opened the north lights and built small timber rooms inside it like furniture.
Quiet rooms sit along the walls, the busy work happens in the middle, and the canteen opens onto the old tram yard.
(A-113) Gallery
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Fig. 01 — The hall under the north lights
Fig. 02 — Meeting rooms as furniture
Fig. 03 — Kept steel and new timber
(A-113) Drawings
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A-102 — Ground floor plan · 1:200
A-301 — Section A–A · 1:100
Step 01 — Grid and axes
Step 02 — Walls and structure
Step 03 — Openings and finishes
Step 04 — Rooms and labels
Step 05 — Dimensions and title block
(A-113) In numbers
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m² reused depot
desks
embodied carbon vs. new build
staff satisfaction
(A-113) Materials
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Four materials, chosen to weather.
Hover a material to bring its specimen forward. Every surface was sampled on site for a full winter before it was specified.
(A-113) Client note
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“People come in on Fridays now. That never happened in our old tower.”
Jonas Rask
COO, Nord Group
(A-113) Credits
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Architect
Hallform Architects
Partner in charge
Ida Kjær
Structural engineer
Søe & Kirk Engineers
Services
Nord MEP
Landscape
Field Office
Lighting
Lumen Atelier
Contractor
Brink Byg
Photography
J. Lindqvist
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