Sheet index — Aske Tarn Architects

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A concept by Warped Web Studio

Sheet 03 — Studio

Studio

Aske Tarn was founded in Copenhagen in 2011 by Ingrid Aske and Samuel Tarn. We are a small practice of architects, an engineer and a model maker, working in two studios. We take on few projects and stay with them for a long time.

A concrete courtyard of stacked volumes, niches and openings.
Founded
2011
People
34
Studios
2
Buildings completed
19

Section through a practice

What we hold to

Six positions, arranged as levels. Above the ground line, what a building gives; below it, what holds it up.

  1. Level +9.60

    Light

    We draw light before we draw walls. A room is finished when we know where the sun will be at four in the afternoon in February.

  2. Level +6.20

    Proportion

    Most of our decisions are about ratios: the depth of a window to its width, the height of a room to the length of time people will stay in it.

  3. Level +3.00

    Use

    A building is judged by the people who clean it, repair it and sit in it on an ordinary Tuesday. We design for them before we design for the photograph.

  4. Level ±0.00

    Landscape

    Every project starts with the ground. We survey it, walk it and draw it in section before we draw a plan. The building is what the ground line allows.

  5. Level −2.80

    Material

    We prefer materials that can age in public — concrete, earth, stone, timber, lime — and we use as few of them as a building will allow.

  6. Level −6.40

    Permanence

    We design for a building's second century, not its opening week. Most of what we build is heavy, because heavy things last and change slowly.

Method

Four drawings, in order

  1. 01

    Survey

    Walking, measuring and drawing the site as it is, over more than one season.

  2. 02

    Section

    Deciding where the ground line sits, and what belongs above and below it.

  3. 03

    Material

    Choosing the fewest materials, usually from within a day's drive of the site.

  4. 04

    Detail

    Drawing every junction at full size, so nothing is left for the site to improvise.

Partners

The practice

A tall slot of sky between two smooth concrete walls.

  • Ingrid Aske

    Founding partner

    Leads the practice's cultural and public work. Trained as a structural engineer before turning to architecture.

  • Samuel Tarn

    Founding partner

    Leads the residential and hospitality work, and the practice's research into earth construction.

  • Copenhagen

    55°41′N 12°34′E

    Main studio, workshop and model room

  • Porto

    41°09′N 8°38′W

    Studio for work in southern Europe and South America

Colophon

About this site

Aske Tarn is a fictional practice. This site is a concept project by Warped Web Studio; its buildings, people and texts are invented and its photographs are temporary.

Design and build
Warped Web Studio
Type
Archivo (display), Newsreader (text), IBM Plex Mono (annotation)
Model
The section study is a real-time model drawn with three.js, generated from the same data as the plan and section.