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URBAN ARCHITECTURE Creative Solutions Vol. No 4

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Our team works with a wide range of design services, and we believe that great design evolves through a close collaboration with both client and user. We aim to inspire people by solving actual problems and provide valuable changes for your company�

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Creating Urban Architecture We engage in the development of Smart City with the human in centre We are specialists in urban design and the interconnection of cityscapes and urban life of today and tomorrow.

For us, the impact of humans on our natural and built environment, as well as the great power of our surroundings on human behavior occupies us. We engage in the development of the livable City and innovative designs for the urban environment.

We are actively engaged in leading actions and organisations, coping with the growing challenges that affect our environment. Our aim is to integrate the latest information and communication technology for the improvement of efficiency of urban services, without compromising the soft values. Our human-centered approach always puts the users first in line, supporting safety, social interaction, and creating experiences, that have positive impact on human behavior and the environment. Smart City technology is the means og today to create sustainable urban culture.

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Access Vestibule Holscher Design has designed 50 access vestibules for the City of Oslo. Each of the vestibules is produced in cast iron and weighs around 2 tons each.

Holscher Design’s design was chosen by the Oslo municipality amongst 80 suggestions in a design competition in 2010.

The twisted slits in the tower outline the spiral movement of ventilation, ensuring at the same time proper draining and protecting of the surface against graffiti.

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Bicycle Service Station The Danish manufacturer of urban furniture Veksø has developed a completely new concept that unites bicycle service, meeting point, and information spot in one and the same product and at a level that has not previously been seen in Denmark.

Here, you can fix small repairs, charge your e-bike or mobile phone, meet with friends and check out the best bicycle routes in the surroundings. The station also invites locals and tourists, cyclists and pedestrians to just enjoy a seat in the sun or seek shelter from the rain under the cover.

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The station is built up in modular sections made of urban materials - concrete, sheet metal and wood. The elements can be combined and adapted to different public contexts. and equipped with functions like playground, picnic area etc. www.vekso.com

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Metro Totem The Metro information totem is a sculptural landmark, reflecting the city life during daytime, while turning into a glowing column at night, when orientation is difficult. The cylinder in stainless steel acts as a skeleton on which transparent, perforated panels are attached.

Metro Totem is the result of a 1st prize in the competition issued by Ă˜restadsselskabet.

Holscher Design has completed the design and delivery of Metro information totems in collaboration with the engineering firm Hansen & Henneberg, Ib Andresen and Ă˜restadsselskabet. m.dk

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AWARDS We are proud to share our recognized successes with you

Our awards and achievements

Since 1953, good design can also be award-winning design – honored with an iF design award.

Good Design Award is the world’s most prestigious, recognized, and oldest Design Award.

We are continuously awarded for the things we do well. We always strive to do our best in every area, and we are pleased to receive recognition demonstrating the usefulness and aesthetics of our designs.

A jury of experts within the respective categories choose the winning design. The task of being expert in a jury has on several occasions been filled by a partner from Holscher Design.

To receive an award signifies excellent design quality and distinguishes the product in the market.

Over the years, Holscher Design has won over 75 awards in various categories.

The Red Dot Design Award is aimed at all those who would like to distinguish their business activities through design

Danish Design Award is awarded companies and designers who have created innovative products and solutions of high aesthetic and functional quality.

The Norwegian Design Award is granted in recognition of the successful use of design as a strategic tool in product development and market communication.

The Design Plus prize is a distinction for particularly innovative design awarded for products that take a new approach in design or highlight new concepts.

The Designpreis is traditionally called the “award of the awards” since only design solutions, that have been recognized through other design awards can be qualified for a nomination. It is one of the most prestigious awards worldwide.

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Aarhus Bus Shelter

Transparency and Elegance

AFA JCDecaux offers free street furniture to Danish municipalities. funded by the advertising space integrated in the design.

The company maintains and cleans the equipment, making the municipalities free to focus on other tasks.

Holscher Design won a design competition for the creation of the Copenhagen bus shelter. This became the beginning of a continuous cooperation with AFA JCDecaux, which today includes bus shelters, info signs with city maps, billboards and rubbish bins for several cities, as well as the equipment for Aarhus Lightrail.

The street furniture undergoes ongoing processes of development. The collaboration between AFA JCDecaux’s Research and Development Team and Holscher Design has led to the production of street furniture, which all has a public service function and also allows the integration of advertising that is aesthetically pleasing.

Since the early 1990s AFA JCDecaux has established themselves as the leading company in street furniture and is working with 26 of the country’s largest municipalities.

Holscher Design has developed urban designs the City of Aarhus for borh busses and the Aarhus Lightrail. The goal was a coherent design language, while providing both means of transport with a recognisable and strong identity.

Design elements like the horizontal lines, the metallic grey colour in two shades, the combination of materials and transparency give the urban furniture a common expression. afajcdecaux.dk

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”The collaboration between AFA JCDecaux’s Research and Development Team and Holscher Design has led to the production of street furniture, which all have a public service function and also allow the integration of advertising that is aesthetically pleasing.”

Kim Axelsen, CEO AFA JCDecaux

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A table that invites social interaction PLATEAU – a pleasant alternative to the traditional picnic table. PLATEAU is an outdoor table surrounded by an integrated bench to invite to social interaction. PLATEAU seats 12 for dining, studying, working or just relaxing.

Maintenance free – made in high pressure laminate and warm galvanized steel, and available in many colours. out-sider.dk

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Aarhus Lightrail AAL Since 2012, Holscher Design has acted as design consultant for Aarhus Lightrail.

Our full- service design agency has assisted with projects of various scale and character, melting shareholder, stakeholder and client’s interests into a coherent design identity spanning from service- and technical buildings, OCM and rolling stock (by Stadler Rail AG, Switzerland) to graphic design, manuals and interior design.

Apart from that, Holscher Design is responsible for the design of the platform, including furniture, technical equipment and shelter in close collaboration with AFA JCDecaux and AAL. Denmarks first lightrail started operating in 2017.

“This is fantastic!...

This doesn’t get any better!”.”

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“With Holscher Design, I got a consultant with high aesthetic ambitions, and who has been capable of transforming the client’s wishes and visions into form.”

Britta Lyager Degn, Project Manager, Aarhus Letbane

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Street furniture Milewide is a system of street furniture in cast iron, including benches, tables, plantbowls, dustbins and bollards. The elements can be used at pull-ins along motorways as well as in urban surroundings.

The bollards can be supplied with built-in sidelights or reflexes.

The tabletop consists of a cast iron frame with an inlay of wood strips and a cast iron grate in the middle. The benches are also composed of cast iron and wood.

The elements are available with untreated (oil-treated) or laquered surface.

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Pictoform Pictoform is a system of tactile guidelines developed to assist those who are blind and visually impaired in navigating in their environment. The range consists of single buds, as well as paving tiles in different materials.

Due to their aesthetic qualities, all these elements enhance the architectural facets of urban public spaces.

Pictoform elements can be used for several purposes: indicating routes across an area, marking shifts from pavement to road, or indicating bus stops.

The system is particularly useful in and around hubs or city centers with open spaces and pedestrian areas. Both the shape of the bud and its sound when touched by the mobility cane are optimized in order to guide visually impaired pedestrians. Thereby, Pictoform is an efficient, functional device for its users while at the same time adding an aesthetic quality to its surroundings.

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“With Holscher Design, Things are thought right before tools are produced, which minimizes development costs.

Holscher has created our bestselling product. They Involves you positively in the development process and is very responsive to production constraints.Which means lower selling price on the final product.�

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Copenhagen Bus Shelter The 2nd generation of Holscher bus shelters have been erected in the majority of busstop locations in the Copenhagen metropolitan area and throughout various other Danish cities.

The subtle and transparent expression and the high functionality makes them suitable for many different urban environments. afajcdecaux.dk

”The collaboration between AFA JCDecaux’s Research and Development Team and Holscher Design has led to the production of street furniture, which all have a public service function and also allow the integration of advertising that is aesthetically pleasing.”

Kim Axelsen, CEO AFA JCDecaux

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Milewide Sound Screen The design of the Milewide sound screen relates to a versatile system of road equipment, manufactured in extruded aluminium. The structural elements are able to accommodate effortlessly both horizontal and vertical movements in the routing line. The system is easy and safe to erect and due to the high quality materials and fiittings, both time and costs for the maintenance are reduced to a minimum.

Other items in the Milewide system are signs, traffic lights, the Philips Milewide road armature etc. www.milewide.com

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We believe that great design is built through close collaboration with client and users.

We have a history of long lasting partnerships with clients that share and supports our believe.

VALUE THE OUTCOME - Developing meaningful products that meet the needs of tomorrow’s consumers and contribute to solving the real problems our world is facing today is ultimately the purpose of our work.

By doing so, we have created a long row of economic successes for a solid group of satisfied, ever-returning clients.

EXPERIENCE A SAFE CHOICE - Regardless, whether we do product design, digital interfaces or service design, we strive towards placing client, users and functionality in the center. Our proven process, profound knowledge of production and materials and the insight in our client’s company have led to the successes we have created.

APPROACH A RESPONSIBLE PARTNER - We believe that great design comes from strong virtues, ethics and commitment – a set of rules, that is tied up in a long history, a Scandinavian approach to design, experience and professionalism.

We take responsibility for client and user, but also for society and the environment.

We contribute with our skill to unify the rational with the emotional aspects, creating appealing products of high functionality, strong identity, longevity and aesthetic value; products that generate positive behavior, well-being and pleasure.

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CLIENTS Holscher Design is fortunate to work with a large number of innovative and well-respected companies.

Our client portfolio includes a range of highly specialized brands from all over the world.

Our goal is always to transform our client’s vision into solutions that generate a measurable market impact.

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