Open-plan office with concrete and timber

Commercial

Form Foundry

Location
Copenhagen, Denmark
Year
2024
Scope
Architecture · Workplace
Area
1,900 m²

A former iron foundry converted into a design studio's headquarters, keeping the raw shell honest.

We added almost nothing — we revealed what the foundry already was.

Approach

The existing structure — cast columns, a sawtooth roof, brick infill — did the architectural work. Our intervention was a calm timber mezzanine inserted as a clearly new layer.

Services run exposed; the contrast between heavy shell and light insertion gives the workplace its character.

Industrial interior with sawtooth roof
Main studio floor under the sawtooth roof.
Ground floor — before & after