Project: Courtyard renovation

Type: Direct Appointment

Client: City Council of Copenhagen / KBH madhus

What we did
As an initiative from the lord mayor of Copenhagen, KBH Madhus aims to increase the nutritious health standard of society on all levels, by educating cooks from institutions, sports clubs, and schools, and inspiring them to make healthy and better food. This project seeks to highlight this quality and attention to detail through simple design elements and sustainable solutions.

Why we did it
The Madhus required three things: visibility, an outdoor kitchen, and covered seating. A new “red pavilion” that transforms the logo, branding and graphics of the Madhus to an iconic element contains the new outdoor kitchen.

How we did it
Due to a construction period over winter the pavilion is constructed from prefabricated solid timber elements and clad in perforated aluminium panels. The concrete ground surface is cleaned and repaired as necessary with the black steel frames and sails giving the space human scale and texture.

Benefits
This project reinforces the relationship between an interpretation of modernist architecture, graphic design, branding, ecology, and reuse whenever possible to build upon KBH Madhus’ own values.


SITE and Punktum Design have been awarded “Red Dot design award 2009” for branding KBH Madhus through architecture. Read more