Apartments and trees

Apartments and trees - Aarhus

I walked Bernhard Jensens Blvd, part of the Aarhus waterfront, just up from the Latin Quarter and beyond the Domen. The apartments look across the Bay of Aarhus towards Skødshoved. The naked trees soften the improvised look of the apartments. They make a stark contrast to the clever, interesting but purely horizontal or vertical lines of the constructed habitat. Hard and sharp lines, sealed off from the weather. Warmed from within. Covered with in-your-face solar panels, disguised as decks, towers of patterned concrete that give the impression of some long established plant seeking freedom. Boxes within boxes. Clean and clear lines. Nothing repetitive or tenement like about these. Patient trees and restless twigs, scratching at the wind as it passes, hoping to snag its progress alaong the waterfront.
Design elements: Rectangles, squares, squares within squares, three encased rectangles - horizontal, two non-identical rectangles in portrait orientation, enclosed in larger square, long thin horizontal rectangle within white walled space, adjacent to small black squares of varying size and distribution. A stack of rectangles, in landscape orientation adjacent to post and rail configuration of more rectangles, Vertical rectangles, split in the centre - 40/60, horizontal rectangle dark, under two smaller rectangles, white, framed with thin black line.Black square framed with thin white square framed with thinner black binding/frame. Sketches.

Deconstruction

Collage + sketch

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