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VM-housing, copenhagen, 2002-2005. architects: PLOT, now BIG and JDS architects. the VM houses is an interesting project in a problematic new part of copenhagen, ørestad, which is situated so close to the centre of town that it could easily have been integrated into the existing urban fabric but which was instead planned as a suburb with green and urban spaces equally unappealing. in general, units in the ørestad plan are very large (c. 120 flats pr building) and entirely independent of each other, bureaucratic decisions made to please investors but resulting in very poor urbanism. the VM-houses was the only project to engage critically with the flawed plan and ultimately the only project to succeed architecturally out there. the plans of the two blocks of flats are twisted into the shape of the letters V and M, hence the name. these are not arbitrary shapes, they are derived from an analysis of sun, views, scale and space-making between the houses, issues that the masterplan ignored. as such, we are looking at a basic funktionalist approach, even if PLOT achieved just a little more funk than what is commonly seen in scandinavia. in questions of large scale urbanism, the shape of balconies loses much of its importance. their triangular plan is experienced, to some degree, as an extension of the angular geometry of the buildings. they are loud but not incoherent. |
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March 20, 2008 at 14:07 |
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This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License |
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This image, which was originally posted to Flickr, was reviewed on 2008-05-03 by the administrator or trusted user mattbuck, who confirmed that it was available on Flickr under the above license on that date. |
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| current | 00:35, 3 May 2008 | 3,200×2,500 (5.4 MB) | Mattbuck | (Larger version. This building hurts my eyes.) |
| 22:20, 1 May 2008 | 500×391 (184 KB) | St3phane | (PLOT's VM housing) |
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| Camera manufacturer | OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. |
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| Camera model | E-300 |
| Exposure time | 1/500 sec (0.002) |
| F-number | f/5.6 |
| Date and time of data generation | 14:07, 20 March 2008 |
| Lens focal length | 45 mm |
| Image title | OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA |
| Orientation | Normal |
| Horizontal resolution | 314 dpi |
| Vertical resolution | 314 dpi |
| Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows |
| File change date and time | 17:24, 30 March 2008 |
| Y and C positioning | 2 |
| Exposure Program | Creative program (biased toward depth of field) |
| ISO speed rating | 100 |
| Exif version | 2.21 |
| Date and time of digitizing | 14:07, 20 March 2008 |
| Exposure bias | 0 |
| Maximum land aperture | 3.61328125 |
| Metering mode | Pattern |
| Light source | Unknown |
| Flash | 16 |
| Color space | sRGB |
| Custom image processing | Normal process |
| Exposure mode | Auto exposure |
| White balance | Auto white balance |
| Digital zoom ratio | 1 |
| Scene capture type | Standard |
| Contrast | Normal |
| Saturation | Normal |
| Sharpness | Normal |
