Mountain Dwellings
Paths outward
- Location
- Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark
- Year
- 2008
- Typology
- Housing
- Materials
- Concrete, Glass, Metal cladding, Plaster, Steel, Stone, Timber
- Context
- Contemporary
- Map
- Open location
Mountain Dwellings is a building in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark, consisting of apartments above a multi-story car park. The building was designed by the Danish architectural practice PLOT. The apartments scale the diagonally sloping roof of the parking garage, from street level to 11th floor, creating an artificial, south facing 'mountainside'. Each apartment has a "backyard" on the roof of the property in front and below it. The resulting courtyard penthouses are an attempt to balance "the splendours of the suburban backyard with the intensity of an urban lifestyle".
