Promotion: window producer Velux has created an experimental low-carbon housing improvement in Copenhagen that’s constructed utilizing current expertise and supplies.
Known as Residing Locations Copenhagen, the prototype village is constructed by Velux in partnership with Danish structure studio EFFEKT, building and property consultancy Artelia and civil engineers Enemærke & Petersen. It consists of two full houses and 5 open pavilions.
In addition to low-carbon, the event is designed to be scalable, reasonably priced and commercially viable.
Every materials, design and constructing method used within the improvement has been fastidiously thought of and had its projected emissions mapped towards the everyday Danish reference home.
At 3.8 kilograms of CO2 equal per metre squared per 12 months, the CO2 footprint of a Residing Locations dwelling is 3 times decrease than a mean Danish single-family home.
Velux defined that the dwellings are carbon unfavourable by way of the vast majority of their lifecycle because of the number of biogenic supplies that retailer carbon all through every constructing’s lifetime.
The event features a timber body home and a cross-laminated timber (CLT) home with hybrid air flow and wooden and aluminium home windows.
The buildings are modular so they’re straightforward to restore, improve and disassemble. Out of doors areas are shared to scale back land use, enhance density and encourage socialisation amongst residents.
“This experimental mission goals to indicate how low carbon housing that’s regenerative for the planet might be constructed utilizing current applied sciences – and in a means that doesn’t incur any extra prices in building and with out compromising on high quality, structure and indoor local weather,” defined Velux.
“Every constructing part has been optimised for the perfect constellation of value, indoor local weather and carbon footprint with a particular focus given to the envelope of the constructing the place important CO2 financial savings might be achieved.”
“If we had been to construct all single-family homes and row-chain and double homes, like Velux Residing Locations we might save roughly a million tons of CO2 every year,” it added.
Velux reviews that houses constructed on the Residing Locations ideas might be constructed at Danish market price value, whether or not as single-family houses or as row homes or multifamily models.
The mission leaders are at the moment in dialogue with stakeholders together with traders, builders and builders to license the idea into scale. The subsequent step entails constructing the primary full-scale Residing Locations group exterior Copenhagen in 2024/25.
As an official companion of UNESCO-UIA World Capital of Structure 2023 in Copenhagen, the prototype village is at the moment internet hosting a programme of debates and actions designed to drive and speed up change on the position of buildings in synergy between housing and society.
Construct for Life types a part of Velux’s wider sustainability technique, which entails “taking measurable steps towards optimistic change whereas specializing in how buildings may also help to resolve world challenges with sustainable options and sensible motion”. It’s aiming to be a carbon-neutral enterprise by 2041.
For extra info on Residing Locations Copenhagen, go to the Velux web site.
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