Article source: KRADS

The automotive showroom is situated by the main gateway to the city Herning in Jutland, Denmark. The municipality of Herning and the client both wished for a showroom diverging from the stereotypical and one that simultaneously would stand out as an architectural icon. The solution became a rhombic volume divided into two halves by a diagonal cut,creating a dynamic and lucid showroom facing the main road, contrasted by the stable mass of a service centre behind. Placed at the edge of town it is a building where interior and exterior collaborate around the meeting between city and nature, and between function and space.

Image Courtesy © Tina Stephansen – Studio 55/KRADS

• Architects: KRADS
• Project: Automotive Showroom
• Location: Silkeborgvej 110, 7400 Herning, Denmark
• Photography: Tina Stephansen – Studio 55/KRADS
• Completed: September 2013 (Started 2012)
• Client (Private): Bjarne Nielsen A/S
• Size: 4000 m2
• Building Lot: 12600 m2
• Collaborators: General Contractor: C.C. Contractor A/S, General Engineering: C.C. Contractors A/S, Structural Engineering: Bent Moesby A/S, Technical Engineering: Midtconsult A/S, Client Advisor: Finn Balle A/S
• Manufacturers/Suppliers: Expanded aluminium facade and ceiling, anodized, colour bronze: Fils SPA and  Pro Montage A/S

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