Arne Jacobsen and Tietgenkollegiet Tours

To round out our studio tours for core course week, we visited some projects by Arne Jacobsen and then got a tour of Tietgenkollegiet, one of the most popular student housing buildings in Copenhagen, for obvious reasons. We walked along the coast from Arne Jacobsen’s gas station to his beach houses. He designed everything, down to the font used for address numbers.

 

We also got a tour of the Tietgenkollegiet from a student who lives there. The building was designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg. It is a circular building, with the private rooms facing outwards and the communal spaces facing inwards so that residents can see friends across the courtyard, having dinner or hanging out, and go join them. There are also communal spaces on the ground floor. Things that are usually shoved in dim basements, such as mail, bike parking, and laundry, are given bright, colorful rooms on the ground floor.

 

Buildings are great, but I have to admit the highlight of this tour was the icecream! I got mint chocolate chip and it had huge chips of dark chocolate in it. Delicious!

 

If walls could dream… they’d dream of Arne Jacobsen.