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Architecture Experience2025

Arc House

A permanent installation that lets visitors walk a building that was never built.

Role — Concept, Interaction Design

Overview

Arc House is a 1974 competition entry that lost by one vote and was filed away in a municipal archive for half a century.

The studio reconstructed the drawings; we designed the room that lets you move through them — a slow, near-silent projection you steer by walking.

Challenge

The archive held elevations and a model, but no interior detail. The experience had to be honest about what is documented and what is inferred.

Approach

Two visual registers: measured drawing for what exists, and a lighter geometric wash for everything reconstructed. The line weight tells you which you are looking at.

Outcome

A permanent room in the city architecture centre, and a printed companion volume of the recovered drawings.

Details

Client
Copenhagen Architecture Centre
Year
2025
Timeline
Seven months
Services
Concept, interaction design, motion
Team
With Kessler Studio

Selected images

Projection studies for the north wall.
Line weights separating drawn from inferred.

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