Museum Of Digital Arts, Copenhagen - Orestad | Patrick Vogel

The Museum Of Digital Art in Copenhagen Orestad represents the modern avant-garde in arts and architecture. The bachelor thesis project contains a whole digital communication and arts-exchange center, right next to the IT University of Copenhagen. The formal building design was a parametrical experiment and interprets the urban conditions of Copenhagen Orestad and the surrounding city influences. All these influencing urban parameters compose one single form-algorithm that is generating the first visual concept. Subsequently this first formal concept was taken and optimized under the influences of climatic and sustainable aspects like solar radiation and energy generation. The MODA contains huge server and IT facilities and uses their heat loss for heating the whole complex. The facade is made out of a recycled aluminium airframe in a specific grid constellation, which is lightened up in the dark and creates a TRON-like facade to represent a connection to the IT campus and the gaming design faculty. The surrounding landscape design of the MODA is usable in many ways. For example, parts of the facade can be used as open air projection surfaces for movies and motion installations. Additionally, the building contains the metro-station Copenhagen Orestad.