Villa Kampen is a

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building in

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, constructed by architect

Hack Kampmann Hack Kampmann (6 September 1856 – 27 June 1920) was a Danish architect, Royal Inspector of Listed State Buildings in Jutland and professor at the architecture department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Marselisborg Palace in Aarhus, ...

between 1901 and 1902, during his tenure as the Royal Building Inspector for

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. Villa Kampen is a

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situated in Midtbyen in central Aarhus, in the affluent neighbourhood around ''Strandvejen'' south of the neighbourhood

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. It lies next to Havreballe Forest behind it and to the west, with an east-facing view of

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and the

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in front of it and the

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visible on the hills to the south. The building and the surrounding estate was listed on 2 March 1983 by the precursor to the

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History

Hack Danish architect in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who made many public and private works across Denmark during his career. Kampmann was originally trained as bricklayer but in 1873 he went to study at the

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where he graduated in 1878. In 1887 he began his career as an architect and in 1892 he was appointed the Royal Building Inspector of Northern Jutland and he moved his family to Aarhus. Architecturally Kampmann have had a significant impact on Aarhus. Between 1898 and 1902 he built the National Business Archives and

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and later went on to build the

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and

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. He was a proponent of the

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which most of his buildings in Aarhus bear witness to. In 1901 he commenced construction on a private home for him and his family on a hill by the coast, south of the city centre.

Architecture

Villa Kampen was originally situated next to an identical building, built by Kampmann for a bank president, which has since been torn down. The villa is strongly inspired by

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architecture of the time and in particular the works of Charles Voysey. The building appears symmetrical from the outside but on the inside the layout of rooms and walls are highly asymmetrical, a typical component of villas in England during this period. Villa Kampen was constructed on a small hill between forests and the ocean and it was designed in cooperation with the

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Edvard Glæsel. The overall design seeks to incorporate and complement the surroundings in an unobtrusive way; the hilly terrain has been preserved and used to make it seem as if the building rises out of the bedrock, shapes are irregular with oriels and arched windows and the estate is enclosed by a wall of small boulders. Villa Kampen is in two floors with large, bright rooms. It's roofed in red glazed tile and the outer walls are bricks of

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and

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stone, plastered and originally painted white (grey today) with

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. It sits on a foundation of granite and boulders and is topped with a

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. The roof has a

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consisting of a

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with visible rafters. There are two arched oriel windows in the front with a balcony between them and another, larger balcony in the back. The buildings is adorned with columns and many minor details in the brick-work testifying to Kampmanns background as a bricklayer.

References

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History

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