Henning Larsen’s The Cube by Velux is a sonic retreat from the city

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This year\u2019s London Design Festival features many little moments of calm tucked in between the installations, pavilions, launches, events and exhibitions. Perhaps the most prominent is The Cube by Velux, a collaboration between Danish architecture studio\u00a0Henning Larsen and the long-standing leader\u00a0in the roof window and skylight market, Velux.\nThe project...

studio Henning Larsen and the long-standing leader in the roof window and skylight market, Velux.

. Eva Ravnborg, partner and project director at Henning Larsen, describes how the project came about. ‘Velux had this idea that they wanted to make a pavilion at the LDF. They talked to various Scandinavian firms to find a partner who shared their values. At Henning Larsen we’re very attuned to what daylight can do for people, especially here in Scandinavia.’

Ravnbord references how daylight – and the absence of light – have shaped recent Henning Larsen projects. At the Moesgaard Museum in Aarhus, an archaeological museum set into the ground, ‘the lack of daylight is a key design feature’. In London, the changing light will create a constantly shifting interior. ‘Sunlight makes a building come alive. You can choreograph how daylight enters and different qualities of light – it gives us a wide palette of materials,’ Ravnbord explains.

 

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