Urban homes in a giant industrial hall.

The MTB hall was built in 1954 as a place for repairing and maintaining boats for the Danish Navy, especially motor torpedo boats. The architecture reflects the prevailing enthusiasm at the time for large structures in reinforced concrete and steel with a main space of 32 x 160 x 15 metres.

When the Danish Navy abandoned Holmen, an islet in Copenhagen Harbour, in the 1990s, the area was selected for urban development. The huge empty concrete structure were converted into a residential complex by Vandkunsten Architects. They preserved the rough construction elements and designed homes around a large street that is open to the sky, close to the city and directly on the waterfront.