Gammel Dok (building)

Gammel Dok Pakhus ( also abbreviated as Gammel Dok ) is a former store at the Strandgade in Copenhagen's Christianshavn district, whose style is characteristic of the sophisticated memory architecture of the early 20th century. On the side facing the water, it houses ( until about 2015), the Danish Architecture Centre ( Dansk Arkitektur Center, DAC), will be developed and taught in the knowledge and visions of future architecture. In the DAC, are among other exhibition, seminar and conference rooms, a bookstore and a café. On the page for Strandgade the state art workshops ( Statens Verkstäder for Kunst ) are housed in which work spaces for artists, designers, craftspeople and conservators are provided.

History

The name Gammel Dok Pakhus (Age Dock memory) derives from Denmark's first dry dock, Gammel Dok, from. The 1739 scale dock was located between today's Save Eigtveds Pakhus and Gammel Dok Pakhus and was demolished in 1918.

The original store was established in 1882 to designs by HC Scharling for the joint-stock company A / S De Forenede Oplagspladser above Værfter i Kjøbenhavn built and was a two-story building with a slate roof. In 1920 the building was extended by an additional, third floor and placed a colossal geziegeltes hipped roof, the roof of which provides storage space for three more floors. Gammel Dok Pakhus was used in the early years as a granary, in whose basement Icelandic goods such as Atlantic herring were stored. Later it served as a furniture warehouse with associated furniture shop on the ground floor.

1984-86, the memory has been completely refurbished for the Danish Ministry of Construction and designed by the architect Erik Møller's offices, so that in 1986, the architecture and Bauexportzentrum ( Gammel Dok Arkitektur og Byggeeksportcenter ) could move in today DAC, and the state of art workshops. In 1998, a modern course opened in front of the house on the water basin at the time of the Danish King Christian VI. to remember. At that time were still ships of the Danish fleet in dry dock from which remains were found during excavations in the course of the transformation of the place.