Beyond the Floor Plate
The problem with most tall residential buildings is that they are essentially hotel corridors stacked on top of one another. You step out of your apartment, press a button, travel in a sealed box, and emerge onto the street. The building offers no intermediate scale — no place between the private unit and the city where community can form.
With 8 House in Copenhagen, we tried to solve this by thinking in section rather than plan. The continuous ramp that winds from the ground to the penthouse creates a shared surface — a street in the air — where residents meet their neighbours not in a lobby or a corridor, but on a path that feels like a hillside village.