MAST

MAST is a Copenhagen design studio working with water. Founded by architects and sailors Magnus Maarbjerg and Marshall Blecher, the practice designs floating structures, coastal spaces and water-driven urban solutions, from public harbour baths and saunas to floating communities and climate-adaptive waterfronts.

Based in one of the city’s last working shipyards, the studio prototypes at full scale beside boatbuilders and maritime engineers. Its work spans masterplanning, architecture, landscape design and research, with projects such as Copenhagen Islands, Land on Water and the Gudhjem climate adaptation arguing that cities can reconnect to the sea rather than defend themselves against it.