Danish architects Mathias Mentze and Alexander Ottenstein of Mentze Ottenstein keep a apply rooted in analysis with a particular sentimentality towards historic structure. Which is why they have been enlisted within the renovation and restoration of a giant, 275-square-meter condominium in Copenhagen’s Frederiksstaden neighborhood. The constructing was developed by historic architect Ferdinand Meldahl within the late nineteenth century in concord with the encompassing buildings: it faces the famed Marmorkirken (The Marble Church, a rococo-era church also called Frederik’s Church) and is simply close to the Amalienborg Palace.
The shopper, a younger girl on the lookout for a house base in Copenhagen, was eager on restoring the unique 1870s appeal of the condominium. The condominium had been redone within the Nineteen Nineties with design decisions reflective of that period and was designated as a listed constructing round that point. The architects clarify: “When a constructing is listed in Denmark, it takes impact from the second the choice is made, together with all of the non-original particulars which have been added through the years. This was a problem as we wished to deliver it again to its unique glory, and never the way it was modified and broken up till the Nineteen Nineties.” Mentze Ottenstein proceeded with in depth analysis on each Ferdinand Meldhal and on the particular condominium inside the constructing compound. Working with a historic constructing in Copenhagen required a detailed dialog with The Danish Company for Tradition accountable for listed buildings. “Every thing needed to be designed and mentioned many times.”
Images by David Stjernholm for Mentze Ottenstein.
Restoring the condominium was a means of uncovering: revealing unique pine plank flooring and stripping again 150-years-worth of paint to unique plasterwork particulars. The kitchen is quintessential Danish magnificence and was a chance to stability the historic with modernity. “The kitchen had been by way of loads of modifications, so it was the room with virtually nothing to construct upon. There was no report of how the unique kitchen would have regarded like,” explains Mathias. The kitchen is kitted with a customized vary encompass, customized cabinetry and furnishings and a wall of Delft tiles. “The design turned a re-imagination of how a kitchen in this sort of condominium might need regarded like.”
