Year: 2002


In collaboration with
Puk Lippmann


Furnishing and decoration
of meeting room


Carpet, wool: 7 x 12 metres

Three steel tapestries
with adjustable light behind
them (fluorescent tubes)
Ca. 2,5 x 2,5 metres

Reception:
Wall surfaces with coloured acoustic plaster. 4 different colours. Wall decoration: 2.5 x 10 metres

Glass, optical fibre. The light is computer-controlled and changes daily.

Floor:
Pattern of wooden strips moulded in acoustic plastic material.


The The DSB (Danish Rail) headquarters in Copenhagen
is housed in a building from the eighteenth century, just across from the Royal park Kongens Have. The refurnishing of the
50 m2 meeting room takes its point of departure in the centrally placed ceiling painting from the 1940s, but otherwise totally transforms the space. The floor
is covered with a specially produced carpet (one-off work)
in light blue and beige, whose
only recognizable pattern unit mimes the carved panelling
under the windows of the room.

The walls are acoustically regulated and coloured with pastels with a slightly ‘shot’
effect, and instead of the portraits that formerly made up the wall decoration of the room, tapestries of woven steel filters are now hung, producing interference patterns both in daylight and
when the light behind them is on.

The result is a space that is constantly transformed by the changing of the light – echoing
the rhythms of the days and the seasons, or determined by the setting chosen for the electric light, which is adjustable both
in the ceiling and behind the
steel tapestries.

In the reception room of the headquarters all the elements are new: flooring, furniture, lighting and the large glass wall throug-hout the length of the room,
where the light in the optical
fibres changes colour in the
course of the day.