The first 6 months have gone by since we started up the office down under, lead by our sociologist Thomas Aarup Due. It has been amazing to receive great interest in our citizen consultation and co-design practices. Everyone we’ve talked … Read More
NEWS: arki_lab wins the project to develop a new park in Høje-Taastrup
From citizen involvement to design We, at arki_lab, are thrilled to be a part of the new park development with the multidisciplinary team, BOGL Landscape Architects and Atkins Engineers. Our role in the project will be to facilitate the citizen … Read More
Nye veje til levende lokalsamfund
Der er noget der rør på sig i Odsherred. Lokalpolitikere, kommunale beslutningstagere, engagerede borgere og unge fra byens uddannelsesinstitutioner er gået sammen om udviklingen af Asnæs by. Bylaboratoriet er et samarbejde mellem arki_lab og Odsherred kommune, hvorigennem lokalsamfundet, og herunder … Read More
Rethinking educational spaces: the outdoor classroom
In the recent years designers have started to examine the process of learning in relation to spatial qualities of a classroom. Research and application of non-traditional education spaces has revealed significant change in user behavior and overall teaching approaches. At … Read More
Indvielse af byværksted designet i børnehøjde
Fredag den 16. juni 2017 kl. 12.30-14.30 indvies det nye byværksted på Gadehaveskolens udearealer. Byværkstedet er designet med elever fra 4.-5. klasse i faget håndværk og design, i et læringsforløb faciliteret af tegnestuen arki_lab og lærerne på Gadehaveskolen. “Jeg er … Read More
Interior Design at Sortedam School
One of arki_lab’s first tasks in the new year is an interior design project at Sortedam School in Copenhagen. We’ve worked with students, teachers and the management to develop ideas for the project and there’s been talked, asked and discussed … Read More
Guest blog by Elizabeth Vamos
Good urban design is all about context. Most designers understand that simple rule, but many of us have to face a major challenge: how to transfer strategies, tools, and processes from one context to another. And I’ll admit that when … Read More
Urban Planner for a Week
Last week we were lucky to have the bright student Bjørn as our intern, who contacted us, because we did a one-year architecture project at Brønshøj School. Through the week he should work like a real urban planner working on … Read More
Park(ing) Day- Engaging in the City
The third Friday in September is the global Park(ing) Day, where parking spaces throughout the whole world are being transformed into livable green oasis. We are going to join the movement in cooperation with young students from Blågårds skole, who … Read More
Lousiana Museum meets Nordvest
As you might know we are doing this great project in cooperation with Louisiana Museum and five schools from the local area, called ‘The Architecture Around You’. Through the fall the students will be working on a suggestion to an … Read More
Getting to know the Needs through 1:1 Prototyping
Last week, arki_lab got our hands dirty and built around 20 of the boxes that the children at Vesterbro Ungdomsgård have designed in the collaborative process we have been working on. The Easter Festival that they put on offered a … Read More
US Study Tour
US Study Tour: Post #1 arki_lab meets rebel architect in a car-centric city US Study Tour: Post #2 US Study Tour: Post #3 How to design and build together with the youth? Visiting Project H and getting an opportunity to … Read More
City Link Hamburg
Last week, Michelle and Sue had the pleasure of attending the City Link Festival in Hamburg. “City Link started in 2012 as a co-creation project between cultural communities in Copenhagen and Hamburg with support from the City of Copenhagen and … Read More