We Are

EFFEKT is an architectural office committed to designing and evolving projects for the city. We conduct assignments within the field of architecture and urbanism combining joyful design and thorough analysis into value for clients and end users. Our products range from building design, to urban planning, public spaces and landscaping. EFFEKT design is the retention of explorative and playful attitudes into seriousness. Such attitudes include curiosity, creativity, humour, joy, imagination and wonder. We believe that having these attitudes is essential to identify and create valuable new designs because they enable us to embrace the constant change of our society.

EFFEKT believes that deep analysis and a clearly defined approach are integral parts of a successful design process, because asking the right question is part of finding the right answer. We work closely with clients and collaborators to identify and develop the potentials, from the initial analysis to the realization of projects. Our projects begin with initial analysis and determining preconditions and core values, in order to maximize value for clients, users and society. EFFEKT has over the past years, through publications, exhibitions, prizes and awards, along with a series of highly profiled projects, distinguished itself as a new profile on the Danish architectural scene.

Estonian Academy of Arts

The new academy building is situated in the heart of Tallinn. The building contains facilities for the departments of art, architecture, design, and art history. In addition to the academic programme, the project includes a library, gallery, shop, conference facilities and a public plaza, totaling 30 000 square meters. Quote from the Jury Report: The Jury voted Art Plaza as the winner of the competition because it is by far the best proposal when it comes to architectural concept, outer qualities and inner life. The project is stunningly simple and at the same time fascinatingly complex.

Client EKA, Ministry of Culture Collaborators SEA Area 30.000 m2 Location Tallinn, Estonia Year 2008 Status 1st price, completion 2013

Carlsberg Station Area

The Carlsberg Station Area is the first phase of the major development of the Carlsberg City in Copenhagen. The Station Area consists of 80.000 m2 mixed use development including educational buildings, shops, offices, housing and a 100 m high dwelling tower and a 30.000 m2 underground parking. The building complex connects the former industrial site of Carlsberg with the classic Copenhagen block structure in a highly varied series of buildings, faades and vibrant urban spaces.

Client Carlsberg Properties Collaborators VLA, CCO, COBE, Nord, Niras Size110.000 m2 Location Carlsberg, Copenhagen Year 2011-2014 Status Under development Construction begins 2012 Expected finalization in 2014

UCC University
The Carlsberg Station Area is the first phase of the major development of the Carlsberg City in Copenhagen. The Station Area consists of 80.000 m2 mixed use development including shops, offices, housing, a 100 m high dwelling tower and a 30.000 m2 underground parking, and finally 55.000 m2 of University.

Client Carlsberg Properties Collaborators VLA, CCO, COBE, Nord, Niras Size 55.000 m2 Location Carlsberg, Copenhagen Year 2011-2014 Status Under development Construction begins 2012 Expected finalization in 2014

Cancer Counseling Center

Livsrum is EFFEKTs 1. prize project in the competition for a new cancer counseling center at Nstved hospital in Denmark in collaboration with Hoffmann and Lyngkilde. The center is designed as a cluster of seven small houses around two green outdoor spaces. Each house has its own specific function and together they form a coherent sequence of different spaces and functions. A varying roof height and materials used means that the building will have its own unique architectural character that clearly distinguishes it from the surrounding hospital buildings.

Client Realdania, Krftens Bekmpelse Collaborators Hoffmann Size 650 m2 Location Nstved Danmark Year 2012 Status 1. prize, completed in 2013

Carlsberg Brewhouse
New Carlsberg Brewhouse is created as a contemporary culture and community house, presenting the best of Danish and international culture, sports and science. The essence of New Carlsberg Brewhouse is meeting user, seasonal and cultural demands and trends in dynamic and creative ways, in the spirit of Carlsberg. Designed to present the culture of today and tomorrow, Carlsberg Brewhouse offers the public a unique place to experience real, authentic and modern expressions of the Carlsberg spirit rooted in Copenhagen, open towards the world.

Client Carlsberg Group Collaborators Loop Size 7.500 m2 Location Carlsberg, Danmark Year 2011 Status Finalist in international competition

Visitor Center in Hareskoven

The Visitor Center in Hareskoven offers a wide range of different functions for the many visitors to the woods. The location of the building, on a hilltop in the middle of the beautiful beech forest has inspired this landscape shaped building, carved out of forest ground and thus blending with the surrounding landscape. The roof surface is imagined as an addition to the hill on which it is located, and gives visitors the opportunity to walk across the house and further into the forest. The star shaped plan cuts straight through the hill leaving the central part of the building 1,5 meters below the forest floor.

Project Visitor Centre in Hareskoven Client Skov- & Naturstyrelsen Size 1.500 m2 Location Hareskoven, Denmark Year 2009 Status Commision, ongoing

Sports Complex
The sports complex is an entirely new attraction for the whole City. It will combine sports fields with international dimensions, several sports halls, caf, exhibition, event area and supporting facilities. To fit the large facility into the urban context it is divided into smaller volumes by function all connected by a spatial foyer area. A sloping landscape connects the large green area with the school district creating a landscape stair as a canyon between the buildings.

Client Helsingr Municipality Collaborators Rubow Size 3000 m2 Location Helsingr, Denmark Year 2012 Status 1. prize

Helsingr Urban School

The project combines the planning of the new Urban School District in Helsingr, design of a new sports complex, transformation of existing historical buildings and new plazas into one united and modern School. The idea is to create an open, integrated and modern educational environment thats both educationally visionary and creates a new and attractive urban district for the City of Helsingr and its inhabitants.

Client Helsingr Municipality Collaborators Rubow Size 20.000 m2 Location Helsingr, Denmark Year 2012 Status 1st prize

Farum
The projects vision is to continue to create synergies, integration and life in a broad sense in Farum. Its about enhancing and connecting the many qualities Farum already has. A completely new City Park is established to create new and strong connections in the existing city structure.

Client Realdania, Farum Municipality Collaborators Arkitema, Rambll Size 6 Ha Location Farum, Danmark Year 2011 Status Settled

Science City Experimentarium

The Science City Experimentarium is situated in an old bottling hall in Tuborg Havn, Copenhagen. However they have outgrown the existing facilities and needs the double amount of square meters already accessible. So how can we transform and extend the old bottling hall into a playful and adventurous setting for an innovative Science Centre? Using the oversized concrete structure in the existing bottling hall we can extend the building by building upwards. We see the combined functions as a mini city of science when joined together at the site. All functions are wrapped around a continuous exhibition space an interactive playground for learning and exploring science.

Client Eksperimentarium Collaborators Arkitema, 2+1, Buro Happold, WeissWallner Location Copenhagen Size 20.000 m2 Year 2010 Status Competition proposal

Silkeborg Business Corridor

We want to show how the highway can kickstart a new business development in the city through the regional availability and exposure that it brings to the district. The Business corridor Silkeborg gives a new face to the region and adds new edge to the citys large existing qualities. We have focused on the development not limited to highway but rather create synergy and value for the district and the city as a whole.

Client Realdania, Silkeborg Municipality Collaborators Cowi, KCAP Size 73 Ha Location Silkeborg, Danmark Year 2012 Status Ongoing

Fredericia C
The main structure of the masterplan is besides the historical grid of Fredericia a diverse network of public spaces that connects 5 new public anchor points in the city: a cultural shipyard, a marketplace, swimming and spa facilities, a school, sport facilities and a innovative learning lab by the waterfront. The public network is a solid common framework and impetus for real estate development in the area for years to come. The project proposes an innovative integration of real estate development with transportation services, energy supply and a range of other services to the city which together constitute an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable development strategy for the district.

Client City of Fredericia C Collaborators ARUP, Experientia Size 20 ha Location Fredericia, Denmark Year 2011 Status Competition proposal, 2nd prize

Helsinki Harbour
Helsinki is already a city with remarkable and unique qualities but the transformation of the South Harbor offers a great opportunity to enhance, combine and integrate qualities and functions already at place and by doing so, strengthen the city as a world class tourist destination. We propose to integrate new functions, recreation, city life and leisure with high efficient traffic and parking facilities of the cruise ships and ferry lines. By enhancing and integrating these two main functions of the South Harbor we wish to bring the city centre to the waterfront as well as to bring the ships right into the city centre.

Client Helsinki Collaborators Size Location Helsinki, Finland Year 2011 Status Honourable Mention

Gellerup TM
Gellerup TM is a plan for revitalization of a unique modernist housing area in Denmark. The project is a cultural, economic and physical reurbanisation of the historical new town. The future development will focus on creating multifunctional and multicultural vibrant city-life. The project proposes a densification and reprogramming of the area, new local neighborhoods, new urban centers and public spaces as well as a comprehensive new plan for the green areas. Together, these measures develop and challenge the modernist heritage with the needs and desires of modern day lifestyles.

Client Municipality of rhus and Brabrand Boligforening Collaborators COWI, Kjaer og Richter Size 110 ha Location Gellerup, rhus Year 2008 Status 1st prize

Biovaf
This project gives BIOVAF an extraordinary building, which through its design becomes a new landmark on campus. This project will enable the institutions to maintain and strengthen their identity and individual communities, while integrated into a new whole. The project builds on the unique qualities that DTUs campus already has - the interaction between buildings and landscape as well as the robust materials and quality.

Client DTU Collaborators Erik Mller Arkitekter, Jrn Langvad Arkitekter, Stanton Williams Architects, Kragh og Berglund landskab, Alectia, Merrick Size 40.000 m2 Location Lyngby, Denmark Year 2012 Status Settled

Mobile Exhibition
The project is a pavilion for a mobile exhibition about marine life. The inner walls of the pavilion work as a continuos projection screen creating a virtual aquarium. The combination of advanced display technology, organic flow of spaces and highly dynamic content makes a unique and effective exhibition design allowing the visitors to virtually immerse themselves into the sea thus experiencing various environments and ocean events.

Client Havets Hus Size 2.000 m2 Location Mobile Year 2007 Status Ongoing

New York Skyscraber

In this century cities has become the natural habitat for more than half of the worlds population and more will follow. At the same time it has become clear that urban living in dense cities enable lifestyles of less energy consumption per capita than for instance suburban living. Most high rises buildings are privatized domains. We propose to integrate a multilevel public park in relation to the commercial functions on the roof landscape of the building.

The life on street level is mostly disconnected from the private realm of normal high rise. We propose a typology that connects directly with street life enabling access and visual communication between the public spaces on street level and those on the lower terraces of the tower. Integrating functions and users

Client eVolo Collaborators Buro Hapold Size 80.000 sqm Location New York Year 2011 Status Open international competition

Bohacky Luxury Housing

The Bohky-Zhorsk Bystrica Residential Development is a luxury development of villas and apartments in the Carpathian Mountains. The villa design fits into various plots and can be bought in both a 300 m2 and a 500 m2 version. In each case the garden within the hedge constitutes the main setting for the house. The Z shape integrates the house and garden into a coherent living environment and creates differentiated relations to the garden space surrounding the house. The cutouts in the faade gives each room a unique view to the garden and the mountains and relates all inner spaces to the outdoor environment

Client Penta Investments Size 300 - 500 m2 Location Bratilsva, Slovakia Year 2009 Status Ongoing

Gadeokdo
The plan for the future development of Gadeokdo combines the future mass tourism of Busan with natural heritage preservation and carbon neutral development. A simple gesture guarantees the preservation of the natural sanctuary of the mountainous landscape, while the coastal area is developed into a maritime leisure zone, interweaving urban development and recreational landscapes. Through an ambitious energy strategy, combining wind, sun and waste- energy along with an extensive and efficient public transportation system, Gadeokdo will be developed into a carbon neutral urban settlement - showing the future path for development in Busan.

Client Municipality of Busan Size 2.200 ha Location Busan, South Korea Year 2010 Status Honourable mention in open international competition

Music Plaza
The Music Plaza will become Copenhagens new venue for music, culture, events and city life. The project brings together the existing facilities, institutions and activities to a new and fully integrated destination. The project consists of three strategic levels; a graphic floor with three stages that defines the new plaza, a new roof that creates a covered outdoor eventspace and a landmark of the Music Plaza and a transformation of the existing buildings which allow for new connections between the indoor- and outdoor activities.

Client Municipality of Copenhagen Collaborators Witraz and Niras Size 3.000 m2 Location Copenhagen, Denmark Year 2008 Status 1st prize, completion 2012

Transformation Kildeparken
Kildeparken is a modernist residential area in Aalborg. The area, which is 55 acres and includes 1058 housing units, suffers today from a bad reputation and high emigration rate. At the same time the areas buildings are facing a major energy renovation. The plan for Kildeparken 2020 is extensive renovation, refurbishment and extension and expansion in the neighborhood. From a monofunctional uniformhousing ghetto to an eventful multifunctional city.

Client Himmerland Boligforening Collaborators Cowi Area 55 Ha Location Aalborg, Denmark Year 2009 Status Ongoing

Transformation Viby South

A new master plan for transforming Rosenhj - a social housing area of 1100 homes in Viby South. The area gets an identity boost at all levels. In addition to the establishment of new acess roads, Rosenhj wil also include new homes for old and young, shops, offices and a tower facing the ring road south.

Client Aarhus Municipality Collaborators Arkitema, Viggo Madsen Size 200.000 m2 Location Viby, Danmark Year 2011Status 1.st prize, completed in 2016

Grenaa Harbour
The South Harbour of Grenaa is a combined fishing and industrial harbour facing changes and a decrease in existing activities. The project is a strategic plan investigating and shaping future opportunities for the South Harbour. The harbour site is divided into 5 different clusters, each developed from local potentials, existing structures and economies. On the coastline we propose a blue landscape design in the shape of a marine park developing and shaping new uses and facilities on the waterfront. The marine park is an artificial barrier reef creating a rich mix of marine life and urban leisure addressing future residents as well as real estate development.

Client Municipality of Grenaa Collaborators Rambll Size 20 ha Location Grenaa, Denmark Year 2009 Status Ongoing

Playbar
Playbar combines a playground and caf, because there are virtually no places in town where this combination exists. The Playbar hosts a caf located in the middle of a playground, creating a synergy and a location for grown ups and their kids. Playbar offers adult guests to socialize and hang out in a green oasis in the middle of the city while their kids use the playground with plenty of room to play and excersise with other children. Playbar serves as an icon for Copenhagens model for urban life. It draws together and illustrates key Copenhagen core values such as childrens culture, innovative use of recreational urban space in a grip that strengthen Copenhagens profile with a sustainable and child-friendly environment.

Client Collaborators Sadolin & Albk Size 2.200 m2 Location Somewhere in the city Year 2010 Status Work in progress

Tallinn City Hall

The new Town Hall in Tallinn, Estonia hosts a wide range of public services as well as the Tallinn city council and administration. The new city hall outside the medieval city center is a reinterpretation of Tallinns historical towers and spires and becomes a monument for the surrounding areas transformation from former industrial harbour to a new cultural city district. The new building combines a rational stacking of the entire municipal administration and city council with generous public spaces on the ground floor where the public service functions are located.

Client City of Tallinn Collaborators Sea Size 20.900 m2 Location Tallinn, Estonia Year 2009 Status Settled

Nightclub in Venice
Proposal for an outdoor and indoor nightclub at the Lido in Venice. Instead of the typical nightclub enclosed in a box, this project envisions an open cohesive environment offering a broad range of spatial experiences. The new typology of the project is based on the vision of a large floating outdoor garden which is elevated to accommodate the different spaces and functions in the ground floor. The great valley, the scene, the dance floor and the garden create a continuous outdoor and indoor environment with plenty of variety and opportunity to relax on one of the outdoor terraces or to sit at the bar in the cave.

Client X-Site Srl Size 3000 m2 Location Venice, Italy Year 2008 Status Ongoing

Green Metropolis
Green metropolis is a vision for the Copenhagen Metropolitan Zone in the heart of Copenhagen. The green metropolis is going to be a demonstration of the new development of Copenhagen. It is about going green and dense at the same time. The project suggests a combination of four strategies. A densification strategy: raising the building mass by 50%. A strategy of getting more people through the area by upgrading flows, connections and destinations. A new infrastructural plan that reduces the amount of cars on the street level and thereby adding new public spaces. And finally we propose a green policy toolkit.

Client Municipality of Copenhagen Size 84 ha Location Copenhagen, Denmark Year 2007 Collaborators Kontrapunkt, ViaTrafik Status Ongoing

Ch City
Winner of the Golden Lion Award, Venice Biennale 2006 The project proposes the development of a sustainable urban city in the greater region of Shanghai. It is a new 240 ha urban development next to the Formula One track in Jiading. The challenge of Chinese high speed urbanism is met on several levels. Through a new type of attractive ecological and artificial nature the city aims to combine green with urban. It is a dense living city wrapped in a green eco landscape. The project was a part of the Danish contribution to the Venice Biennale 2006 entitled CO-EVOLUTION (and won the prestigious Golden Lion Award). The jury wrote: We salute the creativity, intelligence, and generosity of the Danish pavilion.

Client Danish Architecture Centre Size 240 ha Location Jiading, Shanghai, China Year 2007 Collaborators Tongji University of Shanghai, Carl Bro

Gellerup Community Centre

The Community Centre is a cornerstone in the revitalization plan for Gellerup the largest modernistic housing area in Denmark. The centre combines important public functions such as a Health Centre, library, municipal offices and multipurpose spaces into an open environment for the inhabitants to use and share. The functions are organized in a spiraling building with both indoor and outdoor public plazas on all levels.

Client Brabrand Housing Association Size 5.000 m2 Location Gellerup, rhus, Denmark Year 2010 Status Ongoing

E+ Science Center
The project unites science, education and sustainability in one concept for Sarspborg Science Centre. The project introduces the concept of an E+ building that produces energy and reduces consumption. The building contains a forest that regulates humidity, cools the air and contributes to good indoor environment. The building itself becomes a living exhibition showing various aspects of energy use and indoor climate.

Client Municipality of Sarpsborg + Borg og Nring Eiendom A/S Size 10.000 m2 Site Sarpsborg, Norway Year 2007 Collaborators EMA, Niras Engineers Status Competition proposal

Gleisdorf Housing
The housing area is located at the border between the old city center and a newer suburban area in the small Austrian town Gleisdorf. The project combines an intimate local environment with an urban mix of different urban spaces and facilities. By creating solitary buildings of varying size and function, intimate small courtyards and plazas in between the houses are created. All houses have a private roof terrace which creates a balance between common and private spaces.

Client WGes & Gemeinntzige Wohn- und Siedlungsgenossenschaft Ennstal Size 7000 m2 Location Gleisdorf, Austria Year 2007 Status Settled

We Design
Strategy
We help clients identify and shape opportunities from initial analysis throughout realization. We believe that analysis, strategy and design are coherent and integrated parts of a successful evolution. We work from the what to the how. We combine research and design in our practice to achieve a wider perspective in all projects, because asking the right question is part of finding the right answer. Through design we discover, evolve and shape the specific potentials of each assignment and its context.

Communication
Visualization is a cornerstone of any new invention. We visualize and communicate ideas through models, images and diagrams to share, test and enhance ideas with users, clients, experts or with the public. Visual communication is an integrated part of our design process and we help clients communicate and evolve ideas from analysis to realization and sale.

Experience
Our surroundings are increasingly shaped by market demands for experience and identity. We embrace the demand for unique experiences as a driving force in the invention of unique solutions. Rather than chasing a certain architectural style we seek to explore and develop the unique demands and conditions of every project into unique solutions. This method evolves a wide range of differentiated designs, each presenting unique experiences and identities to the end user.

People Size
We believe that valuable products are created through responsive processes. We work closely with clients, users and experts to transform root challenges into new potentials. We mediate and combine specific needs, demands, economies and technologies into integrated solutions. User centred design is an integrated method informing our design and enhancing the end product, thus adding value to client, users and society.