J. Mayer H. - other projects

Metropol Parasol, Seville

The Metropol Parasol is a giant latticed timber canopy that shapes the redeveloped Plaza de la Encarnacíon in Seville, Spain.


The building includes an archaeological museum, a farmers market, an elevated plaza and multiple bars and restaurants, which are all contained beneath and within the parasol structure.


The Metropol Parasol is noted for being one of the largest bonded timber-construction with a polyurethane coating. "The parasols grow out of the archaeological excavation site into a contemporary landmark, defining a unique relationship between the historical and the contemporary city." 
- Dezeen Magazine, 2011,  http://www.dezeen.com/2011/04/26/metropol-parasol-by-j-mayer-h/

Mensa Moltkem, Germany

The Mensa Moltke is a new canteen for the Technical College, Teacher Training College and the State Academy for Fine Art, situated in Karlsruhe, Germany. This space is designed as an attractive centre for the campus where the disciplines can meet, eat and exchange ideas.


The conceptual approach taken on the project was based on a sculptural idea of taking the largest buildable plot of land, cutting it out of the ground and forming the functions of the canteen inside the the open spaces created. 

"The dissolution of the structure into stem-like posts shows an associative relationship to the wooded areas nearby and creates an atmospheric transition between the buildings to the south and the shady forest to the north."

-Design Top News, 2009, http://www.designtopnews.com/architecture-design/mensa-moltke-in-germany-by-j-mayer-h-architects/

Danfoss Universe Science Park, Denmark 

Danfoss Universe Science Park, Norborg, includes an exhibition building and a restaurant,  extending an outdoor park into the winter months by enclosing spaces for exhibitions and scientific experiments.


"The buildings rise up from the ground and provide spaces, which articulate the fusion of outdoor landscape and indoor exhibition." The centre adapts and modulates according to program and location in the park. The architecture was designed to blur the line between building and park, accommodating to a seamless use of indoor-outdoor spaces as display areas. 


-Archinnovations (AI), 2007, http://www.archinnovations.com/featured-projects/civic/j-mayer-h-danfoss-universe-in-nordborg-denmark/