The old boulder wall is more than 250 meters long. It's heavy and it's beautiful. At the southern end of Slotsparken, it works as a garden wall. Further down the road, it works as a part of the kindergarten's main building. Between this point and where the road starts to curve, the wall is perfectly horisontal. This is where the new extension to Vævergården is built.
Vævergården
Cooking up a perfect kitchen
- LocationBagsværd, DK
- ProgramNew kitchen for Vævergården nusery and kindergarten
- ClientMunicipality of Gladsaxe
- Size70 m² building, 400 m² landscape
- Year2023
- CollaboratorsNiemann Entreprise A/S, Kemp & Lauritzen
In our extension for Vævergården, we aimed for a quiet dialogue with history. Building in a very limited space, we didn't want to add yet another building, but rather create a minimal construction using materials already present on-site.
The design balances two worlds: the rigor of an industrial kitchen—with its cold steel surfaces, rational workflows, and professional pace—and the warmth of a human-scaled environment. It is a space for cooking and baking that remains friendly and inviting for small children; open, transparent, and visually connected to the garden in close proximity to the existing kindergarten rooms.
Boulder wall - heavy and beautiful
Every architectural element and material is already present: the tar roof, the gutter, the zinc roof edging, the stained wooden frames, and the red floor. These elements derives from the original 90s kindergarten, and are repeated in the kitchen extension to seamlessly unify old and new into one architecture.
The new kitchen is defined by the existing building wall on one side and an old boulder wall on the other. A new roof spans this gap to enclose the space. By downplaying the new architecture, the garden and the stone wall become the primary 'players' in this new experience.
