Through the design of a folly for the small concrete island in the waters of Christiansholm, this project explores the totemic structure and how the use of low tech construction techniques can convey the simplicity of island life in an urban context.

The waters of Copenhagen are eagerly used by its inhabitants, while the harbour front has been massively developed in the last decades, favouring large-scale speculative construction projects. 

The free standing site symbolised something wonderfully useless that had survived this development, and so the project took on an angle focusing on the potential for dreamy detachment in being an island – for this, the picturesque folly was an intriguing medium

To unfold the typology of the folly, an atlas was developed parallel with the design process. The atlas acted both as a method of mapping research on follies as well as an analytical tool in the developing phase.

The following images show a selection of model sketches produced in the proces as well as visualisations of the final island folly, which draws inspiration from the old masting crane of 1748 standing further down the harbour front.

Bachelor project

jan ’23

* the final project models were sadly destructed before proper documentation had taken place