Benefit from a vast experience in architecture
Anders Barslund is an architecture practice based in Sorgenfri, just north of Copenhagen. My work is characterized by clever definitions of space, visual and spatial connections to the outdoors and a sophisticated palette of colours and materials.
20+ years in architecture
Years in architecture. I opened for business in 2006, creating about 20 to 30 new projects a year. Throughout the years that has become an impressive portfolio of new buildings, renovations and additions.
I am constantly studying and exploring architecture and anthropology. These studies push how I design and think about architecture and the experience of space. I use my extensive material library as an interactive tool throughout the design process, as I consider the entire impression of the spaces I create, including how different textures will work, particularly with regard to how they feel, smell, sound and how they react to light.
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A networked business
I have 3-4 other professionals helping me out during the development of the project. A renderer, a junior architect, and a site inspector with 30+ years experience.
During the design process, I work through the ideas using hand sketches; then, when getting further into the process, we develop the projects using the most advanced digital tools for 2D drawing, 3D modelling and rendering.
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30+ years as a professional
My clients would describe me as a passionate architect with more than 20 years of solid experience in architecture, building techniques and project management.
Before I began my career at the Danish architecture firm 3XN, I was an Officer in the Danish Army for 10 years. During my six years at 3XN, I gained vast experience working on large, complex projects. While working with the bigger Danish studios, I built a strong knowledge base of technical building methods. This foundation is crucial to my practice today, as it allows me to solve complex design and construction problems, which means that the creativity of my designs is not limited by the current conventions in building construction.
Human perception of nature is architecture
Humans spend 90 percent of their life indoors, which is bad for your physical and mental health. In our work we strive to reconnect people with the outside world by changing four things in our homes.
90% indoors
“Walk into a forest and within five minutes your body and brain start to change. Your heart rate slows, your facial muscles relax, and your hard-working frontal lobes begin to quieten down. All this boosts your productivity and creativity.”
These words belong to Florence Williams, an American journalist who last year wrote a book called The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative. According to a study conducted by YouGov across 14 countries in Europe and North America, the average person spends 90 percent of their time indoors.
This makes people susceptible to heart disease, depression, asthma, and other health problems. The conclusion is that the greater the connection people have with nature, the happier and healthier they are likely to be.
7 principles
Most houses in the last 50 years were built to reflect shifting trends in society rather than adapting to our physical and psychological needs. People live in box- shaped buildings designed at a time where we tried to remove ourselves from nature without knowing the harm of it.
If you change a few things in these homes, you create a healthier connection with nature.
We have found 7 universal principles to connect your home with the outside world, thereby reaping some health benefits from nature.
It’s about feeling as though you’ve arrived
Being seduced by light
Free movement
Passing from space to space
Inhabit the spaces
Feeling outdoors when you’re in
Turning the ordinary into the extraordinary
Architectural history shows us that these same concepts were investigated at random, during the transition from unique constructions to mass-produced uniformity.
We (architects) still work with them, but as mass production displace us from more and more of our historical work areas (a development that all professions can relate to - it is the very premise of industrialisation, after all), we - and by ‘we’ I mean you, me and society in general – have forgotten to incorporate nature into our lives and to relate our creations to what makes us human. As a society, we have built a culture in which we have forgotten to consider how the spaces in which we work and live truly make us feel.
Weaving nature into the home
What I want you to feel is not the layout and design - those are just the consumer goods. Rather, my aim is to weave these seven patterns together in a way that allows your mind to feel the same inspiration, relief, comfort, excitement, and sense of being that it does when it's out there, in nature.
Short Read - Why is it that the Nordic ways of architectural design and the usage of materials are so sought after? And why is it, that it is so #€%! hard to replicate, if you’re not from this part of the world? Well, I have a take on why...
100% part of this world
I’m member of Akademisk Arkitektforening, which give me the protected title of, Architect, MAA. I’m member of Danske Arkitektvirksomheder which is the trade association.
I’m present on Danske Boligarkitekter, Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and Youtube.
6 powerfull tools
We use Autocad LT for all of the 2D drawings, and Sketchup for all of our 3D. We render ind TwinMotion and Unreal Engine. We use SketchVR for any VR we create.
The client typically gets the 3D model for a more spacial experience of their project, with the free Sketchup Viewer it’s accessible on any device.
1% goes to carbon storage
A lot of effort goes into seeking the best sustainable solutions to all projects. We consider the production impact of the materials. We put a lot of effort into selecting the most durable and longlived materials and have special attention on the construction processes, as the impact of the human labor that goes into installing the materials takes up to 80% of the CO2 budget.
It's all connected. Which is why we donate 1% of every fee paid via credit card / Stripe to the global effort to store our CO2 emmittance, to limit climate change. Stripe Climate >
