TATLIN NEWS #47

well. The customer who ordered VM Housing wanted to build a car park and residential area nearby. Thus there were two tasks to fulfill: the car park required a connection to the road, while a residential house needed fresh air, sun- light and a good view. At a small plot that was in the disposal of PLOT, they decided to make a multilevel parking overlapped by residential houses, when the parking was the parking was the basis, a kind of crystalline lattice of the hill at the top of which there was a settlement. The flats have common entrance, but a small terrace on the roof of the flat downstairs is a difference from a usual high-rise building. This way helped Ingels and de Smedt united or reconciled a suburban residence type with a city type infrastructure component. North- ern and Western facades are covered by perfo- rated aluminium plates that disappear in the air and help the daylight get into the car park. On the outer side on the plates are pictures of Everest, which helps to hide the pillar network and serves as an additional justification of the name of the complex – Mountain Dwelling. object VM Mountain Dwellings | location Ø re- stad, Denmark | development started 2005 | construction finished 2008 | customer H ø p- fner A/S, Dansk Olie Kompagni A/S | archi- tects BIG+JDS, MOE & BR Ø DSGAARD | build- ing area 33,000м 2

132    ТАТLIN news 5|47|64  2008