Out Of The Box: Denmark’s Senior Housing Complicated

If this is what senior housing seems like in Denmark, we may possibly want to contemplate moving north sometime in the long term. This fanciful housing difficult by the Copenhagen architectural practice JJW Arkitekter is comprised of apartments for 114 residents, workspace for the neighborhood’s employees, and a range of ground floor ‘shops’ which provide residents with options, which includes a cafe, hairdresser, and dentist.

A striking use of shade and an emphasis on both personal and communal outdoors spaces—rooftop garden, terraces, patios—give the complex youthful vigor. Most visually compelling are the trapezoidal personal balconies which protrude out from the apartments, permitting residents to—quite literally—phase out of their comfort zones and into a globe beyond their walls.

Photographs: Åke E:son Lindman