Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter

One door, one window, one rooflight, one bed, one shelf, one table - everything you need. Under this slogan we introduce you this prefab studio box, that with its only 9,8 m², is capable to house the basic necessities for both sleeping and working. And you, will you live here?

This small studio box is presented as a minimum module for living in where your working functions and the possibility of sleeping are both resolved. Through the ergonomy of the forniture it is organized a minimum space which attempts housing the most number of role.

Projected as a small extension of a holiday home, it seems to be a perfect place for be isolated and for working in a relaxing enviroment and surrounded by nature.

Memory of project

Read Nest is a small prefab studio box designed as a detached unit in connection with a private holiday home in Northen Sealand.

Despite the small size the Read Nest is designed for both sleeping and working. One door, one window, one rooflight, one bed, one shelf, one table - everything you need.

Inside the box everything is clad in waxed birch-plywood. Façades are clad with vertical oiled Tuja lists.

Text.- Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter.

CREDITS.-

Architects.- Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter.
Location.- Asserbo, Denmark.
Date.- 2007.
Area.- 9,8 m².

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Closet and window. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Photograph © Torben Eskerod.

Outside vision. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Photograph © Mandrup Poulsen.

Façade detail. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Photograph © Mandrup Poulsen.

Left: closet and bed. Read Nestby Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Photograp © Mandrup Poulsen. Right: closet and skylight. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Photograph © Torben Eskerod.

Façade detail. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Photograph © Torben Eskerod.

Surroundings. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Photograph © Torben Eskerod.

Outside vision. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Photograph © Torben Eskerod

Plans. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Image © courtesy of Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter.

Construction. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Image © courtesy of Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter.

Facades. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Image © courtesy of Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter.

Project diagrams. Read Nest by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Image © cortesía of Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter.

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Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Dorte Mandrup

Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter is founded in 1999 by Dorte Mandrup. Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter engages in a wide variety of projects; cultural institutions, buildings for children and youth, sports facilities, schools, housing, master plans and office buildings, as well as renovation and alteration of Federally Listed historical buildings.

The visionary methods of Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter are based on thorough analysis of every parameter involved in the brief.

On this foundation, new materials, constructions and variation of space, are investigated. The office seeks to combine the tactile and poetic experience of space with conceptual clarity and accuracy, in both large scale schemes and in detail.

Dorte Mandrup has been awarded numerous national and international awards. Among those: Bauwelt Prize, AR Award for Emerging Architecture – and the prestigious C.F. Hansen medal.