Located between Roskilde city center and the site where the music festival of the same name takes place yearly, the Rockmagneten is an art and culture center that takes up an old factory. The brief demanded preserving the existing building – already an informal gathering space for artists, skaters, and musicians –, so the design maintains the casual character of the place and almost the entire industrial structure, adding new volumes to create contrast.

The old industrial halls are insulated and opened to improve lighting and communication, inserting several volumes for more specific activities, and three new volumes are added on top of the existing halls. The main one – and the only building completed up to now – is a box of gold colored spikes with a huge cantilever over the arrival area, and that becomes the new facade and access to the complex. Home of the Danish Rock Museum, the exhibition concept is based on the rock star experience, and its foyer can be used as an outdoor concert stage. The other two volumes are a block shaped as a stack of speakers and clad in black rubber, and which will house the Roskilde Festival offices; and a three-level circular building containing a student center.