The F16 Bath House

Kristoffer Krog Fahlgren

MA Thesis programme

5326

2018 Spring

Programme Flyvestaion VÌrløse

55.771562 12.337437

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation MA Spatial Design, Perception and Detail Thesis Supervisor: Tom Mose

Flyvestation

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Spatial design

My grandfather with my uncle on his lap

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It has been many years since I stood in the garden with my

father and my grandfather looking up at two Hercules airplanes, they flew so close that I could almost reach my arm out and touch them.

This was not the first time that there were airplanes flying in low over our garden, we regularly got visits from F16 fighters as well as rescue- and combat helicopters. The Hercules airplanes were landing at Værløse Flyvestation located only 3 km. away from my home. You were not able to get into the airbase, it was secretive, you had to have special permission to be able to go into the airbase. My grandfather and uncle were both flying glider planes at the airbase and one day I was finally allowed to come with them. As the car drove off the familiar roads and entered the unknown, I was excited. We had to go through a checkpoint before we could get into the airbase, a soldier at his guard post checked the license and who was in the car.

On the other side of the checkpoint it was a completely different world, there were new rules, certain things one could and could not do. The landscape was barren, flat, but not empty, there was always a military presence, from buildings hiding in the horizon, to large hangars dominating the flat plain. Sometimes you could see people cleaning the airplanes or helicopters and if you were lucky, you could see some of the airplanes taking off.

Only a few years after my first visit to the airbase closed

down and so did the glider plane club, it got moved far away, and thus my access to this incredible world disappeared. The activities at the airbase stopped, even though there still was a bit of activity from the of the rescue helicopters for a short period of time, it soon became quiet – dead quiet.

Some people were happy that all of the noise and air activity

was gone, some of them had even filed complaints about it, but as the years went by, even the biggest critics in the city realised that maybe, just maybe there was something special about the airbase.

Many years went by where the ownership of the airbase was tossed between different municipalities and organisations, but after 8 years it was made public, that the former airbase was going to be opened up to the public. I was sincerely happy to finally be able to get access to this historical and special area.

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Personal Interest

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The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Design & Conservation Institute of Architecture & Design Spatial Design, Perception & Detail Thesis spring 2018 Kristoffer Krog Fahlgren, stud5326 Supervisor: Tom Mose

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Motivation

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Intention

13 Context

Location

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Site

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History of the site

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Nature

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Buildings

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Nordlejren

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Sydlejren

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The Plain

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F16 shelter

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Apporach

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Strategy

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Detail

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UN 2030 goals

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Presentation plan

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Timeschedule

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Bibliography

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Preface Introduction

VÌrløse

Table of Contents

Runway

01 Preface

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Topic

Transformation of existing buildings.

Specifically, F16 shelters and the area surrounding them.

Question

How can I through architecture revitalize the area and its

unique buildings?

vision

A cultural area combining the strategy of the former owner

of Flyvestation Værløse with the current strategy from the Ministry of Environment and Food in the north-eastern part of the airbase, to activate the area, while still remembering its former history and the current nature and landscape.

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This project is about a former military airbase in north

Zealand, Flyvestaion Værløse, that no longer belongs to the army and has been opened up to the public. The majority of the buildings and structures at the airbase have yet to find a second life after they got abandoned by the military and are today empty and unused.

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Introduction

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F16 shelter exhaust

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Motivation After a turbulent time in the hands of different organiza-

tions and municipalities, it seems that the area of Flyvestation Værløse has finally found its place at the Ministry of Nature and Food. Interest was great for the area at the time it was opened up to the public, but the interest quickly died out, even though there were plenty of suggestions for the future and its use. There was especially great interest in a small area in the north-eastern part of the airbase. With its 6 F16 shelters, 6 hardstands and a hangar, there is abundant potential for development in this area.

Now, 4 years after the opening, there has been no major de-

velopment at the site. Although there was a lot of interest in the use of the area, there is no one who can see any possibilities for the 6 F16 shelters and their sorroundings. As a result of this the shelters are empty and they cost money for the Ministry of Nature and Food every day they are vacant. This has led to a change in the attitude towards the use of these buildings. The intention for the development was that the buildings should accommodate activities that were relevant to either the history-, aerospace related activities, or the nature of the area. With a lack of interest, the prospects for these unique buildings are to be rented out as storage space.

I do not have the same attitude towards this area and the

buildings. I think it is a shame to say these buildings area unusable and the only activity left for them is to be used as storage. These building deserve a more fitting use than just to be left vacant and unused, because they have a special charecter to them. A charecter you do not see every day and one most people never get to see and feel up close.

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[only fit for storage]

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F16 Shelters in the landscape

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Intention

mer military airbase Flyvestation værløse with an architectural gesture. The new programme must live up to the spatial qualities already present in the existing structures of the airbases. Some parts are already in use for both cultural and recreational purposes by the local community, whilst a significant part of the airbase is still unused and is left to deteriorate.

The project is based in the north eastern part of the airbase right as you enter through the northern gate. A taxiway, breaking off from the main runway leading into the northern hills of the airbase, is the backbone of the project. Attached to this taxiway is 6 F16 shelters, 6 hardstands and a hangar.

I want to revitalize this area, to bring back activity, and cultivate the inherent potentials and qualities already present by working with it on a programmatic scale and then transitioning into a detailed scale. By focusing on the current use of the site and its potentials, I want to develop a project where the culture, history and nature can continue to work together.

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I intend to reactivate this special and unique area of the for-

Værløse

[future of the site]

Hangar

02 Context

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Spatial design

Værløse Flyvestation

Location of site

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Location 20 km. north west of Copenhagen lies the former military

airbase of Flyvestation Værløse, inbetween the city of Værløse and Måløv. It is located in a semi-rural area, just far enough away form the city of Copenhagen, that larger green areas have become more common in the landscape. This is due to the fingerplan of 1947, where Flyvestation Værløse is situated in one of the green segments in between middle- and the ring finger. The area is possible to access from the north and the south, where there are gates that prevent cars from driving in to the area. The perimeter is still fenced off with barbed wire and only small sections of the fence has been opened up give passage to and from the airbase.

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[Flyvestation Værløse]

Map of Flyvestation Værløse Site indication

Thesis programme

Site The area that I intend to work with is situated in the

north eastern part of the airbase. It consists of a taxiway winding through the landscape, with 6 F16 shelters, 6 hardstands and a hangar connected to it. Each of the shelters area connected to a circular concrete stand before they are connected with the taxiway. The shelters are scattered around the path facing in different directions, in what seems like an illogical formation. This was to prevent a single bombing attack to destroy all the shelters, by placing them in a random arrangement.

At the time when Flyvestation værløse was still owned by

Furesø municipality, there were talks and discussions about the future use of the area and which urban development strategies there were desirable for further development of the site. These discussions didn’t lead to a conclusion and where put aside and eventually forgotten. Some years later in 2014, when the Ministry of Environments and Food had obtained ownership of the area, the discussions were resumed and a user-involved brainstorm was launched, in collaboration with Furesø municipality. This was after the opening of the airbase to the public and with a great interest in the site from the public. This brainstorm resulted in an “area plan” for the airbase, where the desired functions were considered and commented on by the Ministry of Environments and Food. There was a lot of talk of what to do with the northeastern part of the airport and the “area plan” had multiple examples for different use cases.

This area was referred to as the “exhibition area” or “mu-

seum area” under the ownership of Furesø municipality. The Ministry of Environments and Food calls this exact same area for the “green support point” and sees the same opportunities in the area as Furesø Municipality, but with a focus on nature rather than culture. So even though the area is now called a “green support point” the possibilities for other activities in the area, besides nature or outdoor related activities, are possible.

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[shelters on a taxiway]

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Fueling station

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Bunker 86

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Map of ownership - 1:30000 0 100m

500m

The Ministry of Environment and Food

1000m

Freja Ejendomme

The Ministry of Culture

Furesø Municipality

The Danish Airforce

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History of the airbase A temporary military camp was placed on the site in the be-

ginning of the 20th century, in 1934 the area changed character from being a minor camp only used in the summer, to the training of pilots and later development into an air base. As a consequence of the cold war the air base was further developed by NATO to house the expanding air force by extending the runway, building more hangars, and building shelters that could house the modern fighter planes. In 1999 the military airport was closed due to cuts in the budget during a defence agreement and the last military groups left the area in 2004.

There were negotiations with Værløse municipality to take over the area, but it didn’t go through, so instead the area was put up for sale in public tender. It ended up being sold to Kuben Byg with an obligation to clean up the contaminated soil with a set budget that was undisclosed, but was mentioned as “not an insignificant amount of money.” Less than a year later in 2005 interior minister Lars Lykke Rasmussen made an agreement with the combined municipality of Værløse and Farum - Furesø Municipality, to hand over the area of the airbase to the newly formed municipality along with the promis of cleaning up the contamination.

In 2013, after being unused for almost 10 years, the airbase

was handed back to the Ministry of Defence, for then swiftly after being divided into five areas, three larger areas and two smaller areas. The Danish Air Force as well as The Ministry of Culture each own one part of the two minor areas. The remaining area is divided into three territories: Nordlejren, owned by Furesø municipality, Sydlejren, owned by Freja Ejendomme, and Flyvestation Værløse, owned

by The Ministry of Environment and Food. Both Nordlejren and Sydlejren have extensive masterplanning layed out for both of those areas, Nordjelren is being developed into a new city: Laanshøj. While Sydlejren at the moment is inhabited by Filmstation, but is going to be developed into an extension of Jonstrup.

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[from glory to unwantet child]

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Hills rising in the north Sketch landscape typology sections

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Nature With its enormous size of 4,4 km2 and its low density, due to

the typological nature of an airbase, there is a lot of room for the nature to thrive. The landscape is shaped by the last ice age and is a moraine landscape. This past is easily visible by the kettle holes in both the western and eastern parts of the airbase. Many of the plant species that now live at Flyvestation Værløse are unique to this area, since they are not able to grow in the surrounding area.

The most dominating feature of the landscape is the big plain

in the middle of the airbase, here the smaller hills have been levelled to make room for the runway. In this open part of the area, the grass is kept low and have been cut regularly for almost 70 years, this man made transformation of the landscaped as changed parts of the plain to a moors landscape, that is usually only found in the western part of Denmark. North of the big plain the landscape starts to rise with smaller slopes, where military structures are tucked away in the landscape. This vast open landscape acts as a divider between the clusters to the north and to the south of the plain. This massive character, that this emptiness is, is a silent one, it is hiding. Looking across from north to south, or vice versa, it seems like a small distance to cross, but the plain is lying to you, just like the sea is deceiving you with its vastness, the plain tricks you, lures you into its vastness and hitting you with it greatest force – the wind. Standing on the runway, in what not so long ago felt like a small breeze, is now a major force pushing your body.

Like an invisible barrier parting the north from the south.

Flyvestation Værløse has had a troubled time, since it was

closed. Initially, back in 2005, when Furesø municipality acquired the area they filed for a protection of a piece of wetland. The was a desire from the municipality to apply for further protection of the nature, but this wish was in 2009 rejected and the existing protection was ceased. It was estimated that the was no need for a more extensive protection that was the general nature conservation act would provide. However, some bogs in the surrounding area have endangered species of amphibians, which results in a protection of the nature in those places.

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[protected]

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View south from Laanshøj of a bunker complex and the control tower

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Buildings The remains of the areas military past are scattered around

the landscape, with a range of different typologies and with a wide variety of functions. Massive hangars overlooking the big empty plain in the middle of the airbase, bunkers hidden in the hills towards the north, control- and water towers looking at each other on their own hills across the span of the entire airbase, to residential housing, the architectural character of Flyvestation værløse is a varied one.

I have chosen to divide the are into three separate charac-

ters, each with its own distinctive typology: Nordlejren

Former housing for the military personnel at the airbase with

barracks and administrative buildings that have since been transformed into modern housing.

Sydlejren

This area has a lot of the smaller hangars and former work-

shop buildings and is now in use as studios for TV, movies and commercials.

The plain

A vast open space dividing the entire airbase with its big

charecters and gestures written into the landscape.

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[the characters of an airbase]

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Building typoligies at Nordlejren Slottet - Guard house Barrack - Administration Gym hall - New House

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Nordlejren Nordlejrens building mass is mainly composed of former mili-

tary barracks build in 1913, at the same time as the base was transformed from a temporary camp to a permanent air base. This cluster of buildings, that is now slowly growing into a city of its own, clearly shows evidence of its former military use and planning. Looking at the town in plan, there is a clear reference to the roman military camps, with each function having a block of its own, while being organized in a straight grid.

The most distinct feature of the entire town is the common

expression of all the buildings. Yellow plaster façades, black tile roof and white detailing scattered around the building in the form of window frames, doors, and other kinds of detailing. This uniformity makes the town feel like a single structure that winds through the town and becomes almost maze-like. As of now most of the buildings have gone through a restoration and have been transformed into housing, but they have kept most of their qualities and features which reveals their age. The openings in the facades are places with military precision with a fixed rhythm on every side of the buildings, giving a massive amount of light to the interiors, but also revealing a lot of the privacy – not something that was valued much in military barracks a hundred years ago. The hierarchy in the town goes from the minor buildings, serving as housing for the infantry, on either side of a central area in the middle housing more important functions and higher ranking officers. In this central part is the most significant building, Slottet. Marking it selves as the most important building in the entire town, by placing it in the southern part of the complex with its 48m façade facing the open plain. It is also the only original building to have a second story and by raising the mid-section up into a pyramid shaped roof that ends in a spire, it solidifies it selves at the center point of the town.

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[military camp turned housing]

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Tower typologies control tower

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Tower typologies watertower

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Building typoligies at Sydlejren Storage - Administration Hangar - Factory Hangar - Hangar

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Sydlejren Across the plain to the southern part of the airbase lies

Sydlejren. This area used to serve as service functions for the airplanes at the airbase. Compared to Nordlejren it has the opposite approach to its architecture, these structures were not meant to show status or hierarchy, hangars, storage space and a control tower were all there to serve a function, to be used. The buildings look like factory buildings, a complex of 4, 3 story, yellow brick buildings make out the core of the area. The buildings are anonymous and humble and don’t call for your attention. The remaining structures, in the core, are hangars and workshop buildings. Stretching out east are several hangars following the perimeter road as pearls on a string. These workshop buildings and hangars all have different characteristics, some were build to service the queens’ aircraft, others used for clubhouses for different aerospace-related activities, but all of them share a common military language of usability first. This doesn’t mean a lack of details or care, but the area is first and foremost a place to work, so things got worn down fast. A few invividual hangars holds the majority of the areas architectural qualities such as the big hangar to the south, where the F16 had adjustments and testing of their machine guns done, as well as some of the other hangars facing the plain, with arched roofs and lower sorrounding buildings.

Today the area is inhabited by Filmstationen, a group that

rent out facilities for TV production, movies and commercials.

Smaller firms have started to move in as well, mostly creative businesses use the former administrative building as offices. As of now the construction of housing in this area has just begun. Planed to stretch east along the same path as the hangars, housing is going to be winding in between hangars and a control tower to create an extension of Jonstrup.

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[workshops and hangars for creatives]

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Building typoligies at the plain Storage - Hardstand Runway - F16 Shelter Hangar - Bunker

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The plain By far the most distinctive feature of the airbase, the

wide stretching plain is a dominating feature with its big straight cuts marking the landscape. The runway and supporting taxiways run like concrete scars reminding the plain of its former history as the backbone of the airbase. Along the taxiways minor roads lead off into the open plain transforming into circular hardstands for helicopters marked with enormous white center crosses. Everything on this plain feels warped and stretched out, distances feel longer than they look, what seems to be so close it far further away that perceived. There are no references to show its size, no ordinary objects less than a kilometer away, to help you understand distances.

The 3km long and 50m wide runway hides in the grass as you approach it, but starts to reveal itself as you try to cross it. Standing in either end, it is impossible to see the other end as the runway rises up in the middle and fall lower on either end, making the runway seem endless. The emptiness is momentary interrupted with solid concrete structures tucked into the landscape, camouflaged by small groves or manmade hills, or steel structures towering over the flat barren landscape. Two hangars for the C-130 Hercules airplanes tower over the flat plain, in view from everywhere on airbase, these prominent structures dominate the otherwise barren landscape. There are not many sigs of activity in the middle of the plain, though it is in the northern slopes that the military character starts to show it self.

Small groves have been planted on and around smaller hills, formed in semicircles, that embrace the concrete F16 shelters and help them blend into the landscape. Bunkers look out from their place of hiding over the hilltop, in order to see what is happening on the plain.

Only exposing themselves just enough to be able to have a look out, but still remain camouflaged in the hills.

Every building besides the big hangars are melting into the

landscape, almost like they grew out from it. Solid structures becoming one with nature, sharing the same colors, made of the same materials as they are covered in. Everything in this place was made to last, no walls less than 1m thick, dense heavy structures concrete structures, both in case of buildings, but also the runway system.

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[heavy duty]

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F16 shelter

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F16 Shelters Entering the airbase from the northern gate, as you walk

along the path you approach a minor hill, that blocks the view of the flat landscape beyond. Moving over the hilltop and into the landscape of the airfield, a thicket on both sides of the road limits your view forward, towards the runway. Slowly these concrete beasts start to emerge from the landscape, slowly crawling out from the hideaways. Observing them from afar these structures look more like beached whales than buildings. The uniform in situ cast structure makes them appear sculptural, like art pieces scattered along the taxiway, that all of them are connected to. Walking closer to to the shelter you arrive at a circular hardstand made of square concrete slabs, where years of wear and tear have eroded the fine surface off and left a rough grippy texture. Grass have started to grown between the slabs and create shapes of their own, winding in the cracks between the concrete. Three reflective yellow glow in the dark strip points straight at the middle of the shelters gate. Outlining the gate is a thick concrete frame with an outside shape mimicking the overall shape of the building, but the inside, facing the gate, the frame make artistic shapes, which seems counter intuitive, since everything about this building is function over form. Every part of the building and its shape serve a functionalistic purpose, the shapes created at the entrance support the gate, while still being wide enough for an F16s wings to pass through.

Looking at the gate, the yellow lines from the ground contin-

ues up the vertical surface, where tire marks and footprints overlap each other. A small humming from inside the shelter has begun and not long after the gate moves. It shifts back a tiny bit before starting to lower back into the shelter, this 54 tons gate opens with an incredible speed and with the utmost precision lowers into the floor of the shelter. The fit of the gate and the floor is something that only can be described as military precision, the grove between the metal and the concrete is non existent, the airplane is able to be pushed into the hangar without any bumps. Once inside the structure is one open space, white painted concrete walls and ceiling, while the floor has kept is original grey colour.

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[a muse]

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F16 shelter

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F16 Shelters In the back of the shelter is a metal hatch, that when opened

reveals two paths out of the building, one up to the left and the other up to the right, but his path is not for people or airplanes, it is for air. The way light travels through each shaft and combines in the middle, throwing light into the long structure from this relatively small opening, compared to the massive gate in the opposite end, is almost magical. The outside appearance of the whales’ tail is a sculpture like no other, shown out of context, only a dedicated few will see the connection to the shelter, and not just a pure construct. As the airplane inside the hangar takes off, it fires up its engine inside the shelter, doing this without a way for the blazing hot air to have a way to escape, would end in a disaster. Opening the gate allows the hot air to travel out of the shelter, while the exhaust is angled in order not to burn down the camouflaging vegetation surrounding the shelter. Hot air is forced out the exhaust and up into the air making the building look alive or like a device trying to move itself further into the ground.

The heavy concrete structure looks like it has grown out of

the ground, not like it was placed there by someone, but like has always been there. Its solid 1m thick reinforced concrete walls, that helps protect the valuable inhabitant of the shelter from direct missile attacks, makes it seem even more as part of the ground.

The black roofing felt has, as the rest of building, felt the time passing by. The solid black colour has turned green with only a hit of black left and the concrete surfaces have markings from the water running down the sides of the building for almost 50 years. Moss is growing on the concrete sides of the building, slowly grasping the building, trying to pull the building into the ground.

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[a muse]

F16 Shelter Exhaust

03 Programme

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View of the plain

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Approach I have chosen to divide my process into four phases – the

registration-, the strategic-, the design- and the production phase.

I intent to work with the concept of “strategy and detail”

as a method of working for this project. The method is going to be used as a framework in order to take decisions and create a structure that I can refer to later in the process. The definition of “detail” is to be understood as a material and spatial resolution with in the framework of a specific strategy, e.g. an architectural detal. Where “strategy” is defined as the wider context or scale where the detail can take place, e.g. design-, research-, building- or production strategy.

As an addition to this year’s thesis projects, there will be a project report accompanying the final proposal, this report will not be confined to one of the phases, but will be worked on during the entirety of the project. This report will include written material as well as drawings of my process such as: notes during the research and design phases, pictures, sketches, sketch- and final models, reflections on my work at the given times in the project, parts of the programme and more.

I will start my project and thus starting the first phase by

going on site and do a further registration and investigation.

The second phase will consist of the overall programming of

my chosen site within Flyvestation Værløse and will form the strategy for what the remaining part of the project will be based on.

The third phase is the design phase and the main focus point

of my project. Based on the earlier research this is the phase where the strategy will be concretized into spatial elements.

The fourth and final phase is the conclusion of the entire

project. It will consist of the finalization of my pinup, adjustment of existing models, the building of new models as well as setting up my thesis exhibition.

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[Structure of assignment]

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My plan for the area is to create a programme that tethers

the area together and creates new functions in and around the existing F16 shelters at my site on a diagramatic level. These functions will be based on the cultural heritage, the unique nature and buildings of the site. I intend, in a larger scale, to be examining and exploring the many possible strategies of the site through analysis, models, and spatial investigations, in order to concretize an overarching programme that will revitalize the area.

This strategy is the basis for my design, the foundation and

framework that I’ll be able to work with, though my design is also going to inform the way the strategy is going to be framed. This method also characterizes the strategy as “a whole” and the detail as “parts.” Naturally every whole consist of parts and details and all parts and details are bound to a whole.

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Strategy [overarching programme]

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Cast model F16 shelter exhaust 1:20

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Cast model F16 shelter exhaust 1:20

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Detail After the programming of the site has been established, I

will start to work in a smaller scale with the main focus of my project, the detailing of the strategy. The detail is dependent on the what the result of the strategy will end up being. Due to its many different potential functions, it is at this point uncertain what the full extend of the detail will be. However, I intend to work with carefully selected and specific interventions at the site. The airbase existing structures are characterized by their military past and their strong connecting to their former function, I will be developing constructs of these characteristics, that I intend to use as a resource bank for which I can draw from when designing the detail.

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[concretization]

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11.4 Strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the

Flyvestation

world’s cultural and natural heritage.

11.7 By 2030, provide universal access to safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces, in particular for women and children, older persons and persons with disabilities.

15.a Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems

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UN 2030 goals Flyvestation Værløse has a rich cultural history both in the

local communities surrounding the area, but also on a macro scale the site has been an important part of Danish history. The site has a unique atmosphere and special architecture, that is very uncommon for none military personnel to be able to experience up close. This cultural heritage is worth protecting while at the same time implementing a new use, that can support both the local communities but also serve as a public function for a broader audience.

Even though the nature of Flyvestation Værløse is not pro-

tected anymore, it is still one of its major features. The landscape and some of the plants are unique to this part of Denmark and with further development of the site, this feature should be part of the future development. Materials used at the site should be working in cooperation with the nature, the use of sustainable materials as well as materials that doesn’t pollute or damage the environment anymore than it already is.

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[sustainable development]

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1:1000 situation 1:50 plan 1:50 sections 1:50 elevations 1:20 details visualizations Models 1:1000 site 1:50 buildings sketchmodels Process Archives of investigtions Collections

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Drawings 1:5000 strategy

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Presentation Plan

Flyvestation

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Spatial design

March

Feburary 6 5

7 10

12

8 17

19

9 24

Program

Phase | 01

[Registration] [Site visits] [Mapping]

Phase | 02

[Stretegic design] [Programming]

Phase | 03

[Detailed design]

Phase | 04

[Final drawings]

Models [1:1000] [1:100] [1:20]

Program submission Group crits Project submission

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26

10 3

5

11 10

12

12 17

19

13 24

26

Thesis programme

14 31

2

15 7

9

May 16

14

16

17 21

23

18 28

30

19 5

7

55

20 12

14

21 19

21

22 26

28

2

Flyvestation

April

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Timeschedule

Hardstand

04 Appendix

Flyvestation

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Thesis programme

The Ministry of Environment and Food “Area plan”, http://naturstyrelsen.dk/media/132791/arealplan1510.pdf Freja “helhedsplan”, http://freja.biz/sites/default/files/download/ helhedsplan_del_1_0.pdf Masterplan

“idegrundlag”,

http://www.ganloseby.dk/images/Nyhed-

er/2014/feb/Flyvestationen%201.JPG Save analysis, http://www.furesoe.dk/Kommunen/Byudvikling/FlyvestationVaerloese/~/media/64D38BA87AFB4682B3F2E52F09685670.ashx

Books Virilio, P. (2009). Paul Virilio: bunker archeology Flyvestation Værløse (1984). Lejren ved Værløse

Websites http://naturstyrelsen.dk/naturoplevelser/naturguider/flyvestationvaerloese/ http://www.filmstationen.dk/ http://www.furesoe.dk/Kommunen/Byudvikling/FlyvestationVaerloese/ Baggrund http://freja.biz/flyvestation

Conversations Charlotte Mølgaard, The Ministry of Environment and Food Torben Stevnsborg, TFCV Beredskab

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Documents

Værløse

Bibliography

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of architecture, Design and Conservation