PORTFOLIO:
Emil Dupuis Bernild
As a newly graduated Architect (Cand. Arch MAA) from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, I have throughout my work found great interest in projects based on big data and observations that defines an area, context, situation and site. These data volumes and studies define an idiom in which the projects must take place. These projects I find it interesting when a fixed and fluid structure/concept incentive co-exist with and within each other. Along my studies, I have also worked within the restaurant business with a foot in every process from front of house, management and creating concepts to start up establishments. I find that restaurant industry and architecture show a combined similarity that focuses on design, planning, structure and creativity – areas I enjoy working with.
Work Experience:
Architecture:
Estate Concept, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Architect and Project Manager, November 2022 – Present.
– Consulting and project development including large and small construction, transformation and renovation projects.
Holscher Nordberg Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Internship, February 2020 – May 2020.
Projects:
– Ved Amagerbanen Nord (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Planning a mixed urban area. The project focuses on the historic values and how to plan a new area of approximately 70.000 m2, while taking care of the existing context.
– Stóratjørn – Et ørige i Naturen (Tórshavn, Faroe Island)
Competition. A new mixed urban area around Torshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands.
– Engvej Lokalplan (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Planning a mixed urban area. Approximately 45.000 m2.
– Vágsbotni (Tórshavn, Faroe Island)
Competition. A new harbor front at the Faroe Islands.
– Bådhavnsgade (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Planning the transformation of an industrial area into a mixed urban area.
Henning Larsen Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Student Assistant, June 2018 – January 2020.
Restaurants:
The Pescatarian, Copehangen, Denmark.
Assistant Manager, April 2022 – Present.
VBAR – Winebar, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Restaurant/Bar Manager, June 2021 – April 2022.
– Opening & concept development
MASH, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Waiter, February 2017 – Oktober 2021.
Simply Cooking, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Restaurant/Bar Manager, September 2016 – September 2017.
Other Work Experience:
Copenhagen Medical, Copehangen, Denmark.
Freelance, December 2021 – January 2022.
– Project management, COVID-testcenter, Parken
Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation, Copehangen, Denmark.
Freelance, July 2019 – March 2022.
Ukrike, Copehangen, Denmark.
Chef & Event Manager, February 2014 – January 2020.
Education:
Master in architecture, 2020 – 2022.
Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation, Copehangen, Denmark
Institute: Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape.
Program: Architecture, Time and Space.
Bachelor in architecture, 2017 – 2020.
Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation, Copehangen, Denmark
Institute: Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape.
Program: Complexity Handling in Practice.
Nørre Gymnasium, 2014 – 2017.
STX – Student, Chinese field studies.
Photo Study, Mexico, 2019
Emil Dupuis Bernild
Cand. Arch. MAA
Emildupuis@hotmail.com
@Du.puis_Dupu.is
+45 28404996
KUMANO HOUSE
NISHIKICHO, JAPAN
34°14’19.75″N 131°57’32.90″Ø
Kumano House, is a project located in the Yamaguchi prefecture of southern Japan. Here between the mountains and along Nishikigawa, lays the town of Hirose a little gem in the Japanese mountains. Hirose is a small town divided into four areas. Ohtani, Koshoge, Sakuragi and Obustu-tani, these four areas are surrounded by nature, Hirose is facing a big problem, in the form of a huge outward migration with an increasing burden on the town with just the elderly surviving. A problem that has left the city with 30% of its houses abandoned and left to decay. Which has resulted in the otherwise idyllic town standing empty and the old beautiful thatched houses dilapidated.
A 20-minute drive from the city, along one of the tributaries (Sakuragigawa) of a winding road through the dense pine forest, lies the southernmost valley of Obustu-tani. A quiet valley with very few inhabited houses and architecture bearing the stamp of the valley’s constant wind directions. The first thing you meet when you come out of the dense forest is Kumano House, two dilapidated houses on top of 3 overgrown rice field terraces with the river as the dividing line between road and site. A small wedge that opens up, with the dense forests rising up from the mountainsides on both sides. The Kumano House is based on the already exciting buildings with belonging rice field terraces. The project focuses on preserving as much as possible of the exciting structures on the site to renovate, restore and build around and frame the old local Japanese building tradition.
The exciting house has been abandoned years ago, now with the structure beginning to collapse. During the work with Kumano House, the abandoned house where cleared out of every personal artifacts When the House where cleared out a very thorough measuring of all of the exciting structure where made.
The structure was re-constructed in 3D where the new building is created with inspiration in the old. The transformation restoration focuses on keeping and exposing the beautiful traditional Japansese wooden structure by building the new Kumano House around the old structure and giving it new life.
The Kumano House Project is based on thorough studies and mapping of all the houses and valleys of Hirose. The traditional architecture, usage and program of all the houses where mapped in relations to the studies of the four different areas and valleys topography, weather and flow etc. Throughout the studies and mapping many relations in the architecture, location and orientation of the houses all factored in with the restoration and transformation of Kumano House. Kumano House is a project that recreates and interprets the site’s previous buildings. In a way to celebrate and frame the classic building techniques and by means of addition and removal gives the old construction new life. The project has a vision of creating a “get away” for cultivating and cleansing the body and mind. A “get away” in the quiet and beautiful surroundings of the Obustu-tani valley. The project is based on an idea to create a bath house with additional dining and guest house that imitates the classic way of building, and uses the premises that nature provides and which are dominant in this area. Three houses that all have a core that breaks with the strictness of the classic wooden construction. A core that acts as a focal point, the warm center, for the functions located in each of the three houses. Three hot spots are kept going by the natural ventilation, built into the construction like the classic houses in the valley makes use of.
The baths move into the already existing and preserved construction, which thereby creates the framework for the hot baths that make use of the clean water located just outside. The old structure is wrapped in a plastered clay dome, which, together with the darkness and steam from the heated baths, frames the construction, the building technique and the use of material. Spisehuset resumes abandoned agriculture on plots, and makes use of the many edible plants in the area. Here is the kitchen, followed by the bathrooms, wrapped in a plastered clay dome, with a slit that here frames the way of the ingredients to the dining room. An oblong room, with the possibility of division that opens up and frames a look over the three rice terraces that lay down. Finally, a guest house with a more intimate division of the rooms, with a wood-burning stove as the heating center. Here, from each room, the clean water that flows between the houses is framed in the views that are created when the long sliding doors are opened. It is therefore a project that, with three houses and three centers (domes), frames the nature of the valley and the construction technique that is dominant in the area. Three buildings that are inspired by the way the existing buildings use the dominant wind direction for ventilation and how this is expressed in the architecture. Three houses in exile that make use of their surroundings, and thereby create the framework for cultivating the body, mind and nature.
BOBBLE HOUSE
INFIL & FACADE CONCEPT
The BOBBLE HOUSE project is a building within an already densely built and populated area. The project is built around an infill that strives to break with the classic cityscape. The project takes place in an urban environment, which bares an imprint of the tall block settlements and wide roads from the old working-class area. In this district the infill settlement lands in between the old heavy brick buildings with a light steel construction. The steel structure lands in the space over the path to the hidden courtyards behind the existing buildings. The infill buildings act as a link between the two adjacent facades where it breaks with the classic expression and gives the space between a more modern expression, giving the buildings a new and functional life. The outer facade consisting of E.T.F.E (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene), a material that stretches out between the the livable area and the steel construction. The E.T.F.E “inflates” and creates a bubble effect, which is like a balloon pushing itself out through the steel structure facing the street, and thus extending the perception of the fl0ors and rooms behind. A project where the fixed (the steel construction) and the fluid (the bubble) meets and forms the surrounding dwellings of the two existing buildings.
FORUM
ARCHITECTUAL CENTER
MALLORCA
FORUM – an international center for the exchange of ideas and thoughts about architecture’ deals with the design of a center to be located in Mallorca, close to Jørn Utzon’s house Can Lis. FORUM will become the international place where the best architecture students and experienced architects can meet for open-minded discussions, workshops, conferences and teaching sessions on architecture. FORUM forms the surroundings for a diverse professional community as a supplement to Can Lis, and a place for individual reflection.
FORUM Architectural Center is located in the already existing grid on the old sloping almond field, where the building blends into the hilly landscape. The building is located with a more anonymous and low eastern facades towards the arrival up to the small field road. On the western side, a more open and double-height facade is created, oriented towards the valley and the long view to the ocean. Large windows allow views of the Parc Natural de Mondrago and create the feeling of a light, airy and open building. The building consists of three massive solids blocks built in the yellow soft Mares stone which creates the closed south and north facing facades. Between these lands the lighter and more transparent wooden construction which connects the three blocks. The sun-filled stairs on the closed south- and north-facing sides lead visitors along the building and down into the nature reserve which lies at the foot of the old almond field.
Mallorca’s diversity is reflected in the building’s various rooms. Here there is room for community and discussion in both smaller and larger forums and the opportunity for freedom, immersion and inspiration, both as an individual and as a group, both indoors and outdoors. The project also creates a framework for creative expression and communication.
Preserved almond trees in and around the building structure stand as testimony to the grounds’ former life as an almond field. The trees are allowed to be integrated and fill the small courtyards, where they create shade and space for reflection. They also help to preserve a rich insects and bird life, which contributes to inspiration among the visitors. The building provides additional opportunities for culture-related events such as various art exhibitions, concerts, conferences, etc. The vision is to create a house that will not only be a space for architectural knowledge sharing and discussion, but a cultural institution that could also be used by the island’s residents.
CAPRICCIO
THE MATHEMATICAL CITY
A City Museum in A Fictional City
Capriccio is a project based on the theory of a perfectly planned city and how to generate a city from mathematical formulas describing the perfect distribution, sizes and relations between roads, parks, city blocks etc.
The mathematical formulas are based on a summary of relevant theories for the perfect city, from Vitruvius De Architectura to Georges-Eugène Haussmann and the modern cityplanning. The project generates a fictional city the size of Paris based on these theories. The city museum moves in and like the old capriccio paintings which creates a space for an architectural fantasy, Placing historical buildings, archaeological ruins and other architectural elements in a fictional and fantastical combination. Where the old philosophers can reminisce about the past, Future and everything in between.
The City generates as a monocentric structure from the centrum and out with the optimal number of radial boulevards. In his book “Garden Cities of To-morrow” Ebenezer Howard describes in 1902 the dimensions of these boulevards and the city functions. To optimize the layout, The introduction of the hexagonal radial system is preferred to a ring road system, as the hexagonal roads will shorten the total distance from one given point to another. To the advantage of the hexagonal system can include/imply a more rectangular system, but the rectangular grid system has always been preferred in terms of building, orientation and walkability; therefore, the rectangular grid system can very well be combined with the hexagonal radial system in the further division of the city. Walkability Describes the relationship between the size of the block in relation to the dimensions of the road, the optimal walkability and distance experience.
Several theories put forward formulas that describe the size of the block in relation to the dimensions of the roads, which achieve the optimal size in relation to distances and walkability. the optimal walkability and spatial experience. Ildefonso Cerdá describes in 1861, the dimension of the optimal city block size in his planning of Barcelona with the variables – the length of the city block, squaremeter pr. person, number of persons in a household, width of the street, heights og the facade and the depth of the city block. Cerdá also describe the relationship between a given neighborhood (on a larger or smaller scale, given the nature of the facility) and a given facility – the relevance to the resident of the block and the resident of the block’s relevance to the facility. Georges Eugène Haussmann describes in the latter half of the 19th century in his memoirs to Napoleon III how each of the eighty quarters of Paris should have a park to offer Parisians places for relaxation and recreation for families and children across classes. The parks had to be placed so that no one was more than a ten minute walk from a park. Here Georges Eugène Haussmann describes one of the city’s “facilities”, where the optimum is a ten-minute walk, corresponding to 1000m. The combination of Cerdás and Haussmanns theories will thereby describe the location of the parks and facility in a neighborhood as the center of mass of the weight of the residential block (number of residents) and the facilities relevans.
When you generate a city in this way, it quickly dawns on you that a city cannot only be created based on the theories and formulas of mathematics, but that certain variables need to be determined. With these undetermined variables, we see that certain “glitches” where the formulars collides without hiraki and syntaxes only focusing on quantity. These variables can be decided from an external demographic, aesthetic or third point of view that can describe the qualities of a given city. In an attempt to understand the outcome of the city, sections are drawn where these “glicthes” are examined and put in relation to spatial descriptions and visualization of the given urban space. In the layout of the generated city, there natural are three forums: the primary, the secondary and the tertiary forum, unconsciously these forums take shape, drawing many similarities to existing planned cities or urban area. One can marvel at the similarities and connections between imagination and reality, thereby confirming the constants in history and the theories and formulas of mathematics These three forums are being considered as a possible site for the city museum, Capriccio.
Capriccio describes a painterly style, through the Renaissance and the Baroque, where motifs reflect an architectural imagination that brings together buildings, archaeological ruins and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastic combinations. This creates a romantic view of the city and architecture in relation to the past where the philosophers and artists of the time can reflect on the architectural thoughts and relationship of the past as well as future visions for the city, art and architecture. The city museum Capriccio enters the city’s secondary forum where it as described in several of the theories for optimal location of the city’s facilities.
Here the museum breaks with the classic city architecture and breaks up the exciting city block and inspired by the capriccio paintings by Giovanni Paolo Pannini and the Renaissance, creates the surroundings for a place where urban art, cityscapes and architectural imagination can be exhibited and the building’s guests can, like the philosophers and artists of the time, walk among an architectural imagination that brings together buildings, archaeological ruins and urban art throughout history. The great dome spirals around the concert/confrence hall in the centre and creates a room for large expos with smaller exhibition space located in the already exciting classic city block.
URBAN AFFORESTATION
AN URBAN MIYAWAKI FOREST
The intention of the project is to investigate the possibilities of creating urban micro-forests in an already crowded cityscape. Through this, the project will investigate the possibilities for a relocation and collection of trees with history and high quality, which due to development in the city must be “retired”.
Based on Akira Miyawaki’s theory of efficient urban afforestation, the project will create an urban recreationally area with high biodiversity, where the “retired” trees can retain their value and quality.
An estimate from the Municipality of Copenhagen shows that the so-called “tree canopy cover” on public areas has decreased significantly in recent years. This despite a comprehensive municipal plan and decisions to plant 100.000 trees in Copenhagen by 2025. Here, the goal is for 20 percent of Copenhagen’s total area to be covered by tree canopies. In addition, it contains a comprehensive tree policy where, among other things, existing trees in Copenhagen must as a general rule be preserved – and replaced if felled.
The project is with help form Municipality of Copenhagen based on a massiv amount of big data describing every facts about every single of the ca. 61.000 citytrees in Copenhagen.
However, the latest assessment from 2019 shows that only a third of the trees have been planted. Of this, the vast majority is planted in an established urban forest on Amager Fælled, where it is estimated that only approximately 12 percent survive.
The fact that more trees have not been planted is mainly due to a space problem, where the current land use does not work out to nature’s advantage. And then it is due to the increasing migration to Copenhagen, where both existing and potential newly planted trees often have to give way to other functions in the urban development.
Today in Copenhagen, an average of 924.19 trees are planted annually, while we cut down 438.5 trees annually. A significant change must therefore take place if Copenhagen is to achieve the goal of planting 100,000 trees by 2025.
The Municipality of Copenhagen has designated 136 individual trees and 56 larger groups of trees throughout the city as iconic or worthy of preservation despite the fact that there are approximately 61,000 trees in Copenhagen.
It is a paradoxical subject where economy and the relationship between planting and felling trees does not agree. Namely, there can be economic gain in “reusing” the city’s trees which are felled due to the city’s development in a relocation. Where in many cases, for a fraction of the price of felling, planting and maintaining the trees – the tree can be relocated to designated locations in the city.
This project therefore investigates the possibilities for a relocation and collection of trees with history and high quality, which due to development in the city must be felled. The aim is therefore to create urban micro-forests with a background in the Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki’s theory of efficient urban afforestation, and to create a close-to-city recreational area with high biodiversity. With more micro-forests in the city you can avoid some of the many tree fellings, and instead relocate the trees to a place where the trees can “retire”.
Langeliniekajen — a former industrial area on the edge of the city is now a stagnant area losing its function. Therefore, the many square meters must be the priority area for a development and rethinking that can prioritize and accommodate green recreational areas for the city’s residents.
Based on Langeliniekajen, the project proposes a strategy based on a greening of the harbor route which can tie the southern and northern city together.
The urban forest on Langelinje will thereby stand as a concrete, visible and spatial statement in our urban space as part of the extensive green transition we are necessarily a part of.
DEVELOPENT PLAN
BETWEEN ME AN WE
Development plan is a project that works with the transformation and design of the terrain in the area, which creates space for a denser housing plan with 115 student or elderly homes of 55 – 100 km2 per housing. The building is part of the new expansion of Copenhagen. The project draws similarities to the old workers’ Copenhagen and bridge districts with the dense multi-storey buildings and narrow streets. The building strives to cultivate diversity, where the private and public spaces flow together in the form of the overlapping functions, which are used both by the public and the residents themselves. This is done with an organization that partly allows the public to enter, but where the residents also retain the option of a private space for their own use.
The project works with an existing expression of brick facade and the narrow streets between square monolistic buildings inspired by Aldo Rossi’s Cimitero San Cataldo. The facade meets the open citysquare between the road and the buildings and creates an urban space with room for a shop and cafe environment that intertwines down through the small streets which lies between the three square solids. The inner facade to the courtyard is expressed in wood and acts with a softer and warmer expression in contrast to the outer brick facade. The inner facade forms the apartment niches that creates the space for the individual apartment. The inner facade meets the inner courtyard environment with a softer and warmer motif,
which contributes to the perception of a more cosy and welcoming yard environment.
The site at Refshaleøen lies down to the small marina and up against the new temporary use of the old industrial area with its settlements. Here the project is working on a terrain renewal that strives creating a beach park environment with expression of randomness where the city blocks create the surroundings for a changeable Vesterhavs inspired dune and beach environment that builds up around the monomental brick blocks and opens up the backside of the city.
the project is a development plan where two opposites meet and the project intertwines whereupon they compliment each other for the benefit of the residents, external view as well as the private environment.
VERTCAL FARMING FACILITY
The artificial industrial island Prøvestenen in Copenhagen have had many purpose over the years. Its an island that since the 1900 have grown exponentially and now have reached stagnation. Now with the increasing sea level the artificial island is slowly disappearing.
The project focuses on the recording of the island’s progression and future regression. This as a picture of the future situation for Denmark and its shrinking area due to rising water levels. The project seeks to finde a way to gain more land area by optimizing Danish agriculture use.
The large registration of the progression and future regression of the island is transformed and converted to different data models all describing the site and the tense situation that the site located in.
The project then practice different combinations and constellations of the data models to create an architectural composition. And the how to move such a specific and data driven thing as a vertical farming facility, into an architectural shape. The underground facility locate is self on each side of the tight canyon created as and description and comment to the tense situation the site and area in. Thereby creating a facility seeking to be a part of the solution to the problem an situation it locates it self in.
In 2020 the Danish agricultural area covert 60,4 % of the total danish area. Where 79,8 % where used for producing food for the Danish lifestock.
Denmark even have an area equivalent to all of Zealand in size in South America to produce food for the Danish lifestock.
Growing greens in vertical farming could reduce the agricultural area and regain the Danish area and nature.
the total agriculture area in Denmark could be substituted with what’s equivalent to 159 Burj Khalifa styled vertical farming facilities. And there by only use under 1,5 % of present agricultural area.
The project as an facility will be able to proceed greens equivalent to more than what could be conventionally produce at the island, and only use a fraction oaf the total area of the artificial industrial island.
EROSION OF A BIRD SANCTUARY
SALTHOLM DENMARK
Saltholm is Denmarks most important bird sanctuary and an important and attractive stop for many migratory birds. The brid life on the island is the riches in Denmark with over 70.000 birds using the island and up to 20.000 breeding birds. where several rare species only are to finde here.
The nature on the island is unique untouched with only 2 persons living on and maintaining the island.
Due to islands geografi, location in Øresund and flad character the island is slowly getting smaller due to erosion. The highest point on the island is only 2 meters over the sea and the island is often flooded.
The project focuses on preserving, saving and framing the brid sanctuary by studying the islands typografi, nature and situation.
To understand the islands typografi multiple 3D scans and registrations where made of the islands different situations.
These point clouds where then put together to give a structure to the landscape.
The erosion of the island where map an the big limestone spread in the area where found to have a big influence on the ocean currents and erosion around the area. The project draws inspiration from the islands limestones and their acting.
The project then spread big concrete blocks simulating the limestones, thus creating an artificial landscape. A landscape where the intervention will keep parts of the island from erosion and then persevering the bird sanctuary
I have always taken pictures. I started out by taking pictures of people I met on my travels, but found my self in taking more and more minimalistic and detailed pictures along with my architecture studies . Throughout my photo studies I’ve explored the details and the minimalistic composition of architecture.
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