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The Havnegade Pavilion at dusk — a curved glass reading room above a fluted plinth, its warm interior light spilling across wide steps that fall to the harbour water.

Selected work

Buildings drawn around the light the site already had

Four projects, from a harbour reading room that stays open after dark to a craft school still being tested in basswood. Each one started with a question about where the sun lands and what time of day the room is actually used.

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Practising since
2009
Studio
Copenhagen
Shown here
4 projects

Above: Havnegade Pavilion, Inderhavnen, Copenhagen, 2025.

Houses

Single dwellings, drawn around the hours their owners are actually home.

Cultural

Buildings anyone can walk into without being asked why.

How the work is made

Every building here was a room you could hold first

We test daylight in basswood and card before anyone draws a wall in software. It is slower for a month and faster for a year.

The studio's south room in full daylight — elevation drawings pinned above a long timber table, study models lined up on the cabinet, linen curtains filtering the light from the full-height windows.

The model shop comes before the render

A render will agree with whatever you tell it. A physical model held up to a real window will not — it shows you the glare you were hoping to ignore. Every project on this page went through four or five study models before it went to the municipality, and the ones you can see on the cabinet are the versions that were wrong.

  • Daylight tested on a heliodon at the site's true latitude
  • Four to five study models before a permit submission
  • One drawing set, kept current — no parallel truth in a folder
  • The client sees the models that failed, not just the one that worked

Have a site, and a question about where the light lands?

Tell us the address, the hours you are actually home, and what you would like to be doing at four in the afternoon. That is enough for a first conversation — no drawings needed.

Start a projectstudio@lumenarchitecture.dk

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