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Initiated by us, the Vindmøllebakken co-living project is raised on our old office grounds. It is constructed entirely out of wood. Privately owned apartments are built around 500m2 shared space with different programs and a spacious indoor courtyard. Located in the centre of movement, the double height living room becomes the beating heart of the breathing, all-wooden complex.

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Initiated by us, the Vindmøllebakken co-living project is raised on our old office grounds. It is constructed entirely out of wood. Privately owned apartments are built around 500m2 shared space with different programs and a spacious indoor courtyard. Located in the centre of movement, the double height living room becomes the beating heart of the breathing, all-wooden complex.

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Marmalade Lane co-housing, Mole architects, Uk

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Scheme for 40 houses for Cambridge Co-Housing group K1, designed around communal Common Ground

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A 35,000-square-metre eco-village is going to be built in Copenhagen using recycled concrete, wood and glass.

Architecture studios Lendager Group and Årstiderne Arkitekter won a competition to design the UN17 Village, a housing development set to provide 400 new homes in Ørestad South, a district to the south of the Danish capital.

Their proposal is to create "the first building project in the world" to address all of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with particular focus on using sustainable resources and creating healthy, social communities.

"With the UN17 Village, we wanted to create not only an iconic and sustainable building from recycled materials, but also the opportunity for a sustainable lifestyle," said Anders Lendager, founder of Lendager Group.

"So far, the focus for sustainable buildings has mainly been on their carbon emissions," he explained. "Not only did we want to create an iconic building made from recycled materials, but also an opportunity for a sustainable lifestyle".

"UN17 Village therefore looks at the whole lifecycle of the building - including material use, health, and quality of life."

The design team was selected ahead of big-name studios including BIG and Henning Larsen, in a competition run by property developer NREP.

The proposal comprises five housing blocks built from recycled concrete and wood, as well as upcycled windows.

The structures will rely solely on sustainable energy. Each will be topped with a rooftop garden, to encourage biodiversity, and will also feature rainwater collection facilities capable of recycling 1.5 million litres of water every year.

There will be 37 different housing typologies, with a mix family dwellings, co-living spaces and senior accommodation. They will create homes for up to 800 people, as well as an estimated 100 job opportunities.

To further this, 3,000 square-metres of the complex is dedicated to communal spaces for use by both the residents and the people of Ørestad.

Lendager said the aim is to reduce inequality, by creating "a diverse and strong neighbourhood, where people can live regardless of family structure and age".

Other facilities will include a conference centre that hosts sustainability-focused events, an organic restaurant, greenhouses and food-sharing facilities, to encourage people to grow their own food and reduce waste.

The architects hope the scheme will set a precedent for the rest of the world, forming a sustainable building model that can be applied at any scale. According to Lendager, the project will address all 17 of the UN's SDGs.

"We have developed a scalable process that brings all the SDGs into focus. By translating these into solutions, we have created a tool that everyone in the industry can implement," he added.

The Ørestad South district of Copenhagen has been in development for the past 25 years. Other well-known projects in the areas include the award-winning 8 House by BIG and Street Hall Ørestad, a wooden sports centre by NORD Architects.

Visuals are by TMRW.
Project credits:
Contributing architects: Lendager Group, Årstiderne Arkitekter
Project leader: Philip Rufus Knauf
Client: NREP
Engineering: Moe and Arup
Project team: Jacob Blak, Sophie Daugaard Andersen, Majken Lynge Gribskjold, Kristian Knorr Jensen, Stephanie Levassor, Agata Marzec, Nicholas Ransome, Daniel Veenboer

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Lendager Group and Årstiderne Arkitekter will build a 35,000-square-metre eco-village in Copenhagen, called UN17 Village, using recycled materials

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ockdown has given us a taste of how good it is to live in a more local way: walking to shops, working from home, spending less time commuting. Emissions have decreased, and the air we breathe has felt cleaner. But if we change the way we design our cities, in particular, we can hold on to this climate-friendly way of living.

The "15-minute city" is a vision of urban living where everything you need - house, job, supermarket, school, park, health centre, post office - is a quarter of an hour away, by foot or bike. Paris, Barcelona, Bogotá and many other cities are exploring this. It means making cities more pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly, and prioritising refurbishment over new construction, retrofitting buildings to include a greater mix of uses, such as retail, office space, education, small makers and housing.

If cities reduce the number of cars on the road, and with them the need for parking, we could free up 10% extra space in cities. That's a lot - and the best thing we can do with it is plant trees, creating green, low-emission urban areas. If we do that, natural species will follow, and biodiversity will increase.

But size matters: if these green spaces are small and scattered, they won't be as effective. Only 13% of urban trees in the UK are in areas bigger than 0.25 hectares; they need to be 10 to 35 hectares to support wildlife. We have to fight against the building of "hard squares" - the large, concrete public spaces seen in cities the world over. All public spaces need varied greenery and water-permeable paving. We can further green up our cities with green roofs, balconies and small gardens. We can promote urban laws, like in San Francisco, forcing green roofs in new constructions, or when significant refurbishment happens in existing buildings.

As temperatures rise, city centres are predicted to become "heat islands" - around 3C hotter than surrounding areas. Trees and greenery will combat this. What is beautiful about this plan is that it can reap financial benefits, too, by making cities more attractive to residents, businesses and tourists.

If our cities are designed in this way, we will be better able to weather climate change, but also future pandemics.

Izaskun Chinchilla is an architect who runs her practice in Madrid and London, and is a professor at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

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ockdown has given us a taste of how good it is to live in a more local way: walking to shops, working from home, spending less time commuting. Emissions have decreased, and the air we breathe has felt cleaner. But if we change the way we design our cities, in particular, we can hold on to this climate-friendly way of living.

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The Passivhaus and high-density Goldsmith Street social housing scheme designed by Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley has been awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize 2019.

London studio Mikhail Riches, led by architects David Mikhail and Annalie Riches, has won the biggest prize in UK architecture for the residential scheme in Norwich.

Goldsmith Street, which has provided Norwich City Council with 105 low-energy homes, was hailed by the jury as "a ground-breaking project and an outstanding contribution to British architecture".

RIBA president Alan Jones described the project as "a beacon of hope".

"Faced with a global climate emergency, the worst housing crisis for generations and crippling local authority cuts, Goldsmith Street is a beacon of hope," he said. "It is commended not just as a transformative social housing scheme and eco-development, but a pioneering exemplar for other local authorities to follow."

Located close to Norwich city centre, Goldsmith Street was designed by Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley as an affordable high-density alternative to apartment blocks.

The development comprises seven terraced blocks arranged in four lines, containing a total of 45 houses and 60 flats, within an area of less than one hectare.

Each home faces south to maximise solar gain and is designed by Mikhail Riches to meet Passivhaus standard.

Over a quarter of the site is dedicated to communal space to encourage social cohesion - including an open alley that runs through the centre of the scheme that doubles as a shared communal garden and safe play area for children.

"Goldsmith Street's success is testimony to the vision and leadership of Norwich City Council. We thank them for their commitment and support. They believe that council housing tenants deserve great design," said Mikhail.

"It is not often we are appointed to work on a project so closely aligned with what we believe matters; buildings people love which are low impact," he continued. "We hope other local authorities will be inspired to deliver beautiful homes for people who need them the most, and at an affordable price."

The Stirling Prize 2019 judging panel, chaired by Julia Barfield, described the project as "a modest masterpiece".

"It is high-quality architecture in its purest most environmentally and socially-conscious form. Behind restrained creamy facades are impeccably detailed, highly sustainable homes - an incredible achievement for a development of this scale," the jury added.

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"This is proper social housing, over ten years in the making, delivered by an ambitious and thoughtful council. These desirable, spacious, low-energy properties should be the norm for all council housing."

RIBA's Stirling Prize has been awarded annually since 1996 to buildings deemed to have made the most significant impact to British architecture in the past year. This year marks the first time that the prize has gone to social housing.

Goldsmith Street also won the inaugural Neave Brown Award for Housing, given in memory of the Royal Gold Medal-winning architect who designed the Alexandra Road Estate in north London.

The five other projects shortlisted for this year's Stirling Prize were The Macallan Distillery by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Nevill Holt Opera by Witherford Watson Mann Architects, Cork House by Matthew Barnett Howland with Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton, London Bridge Station by Grimshaw, and The Weston by Feilden Fowles Architects.

Last year, Foster + Partners won the award for Bloomberg's European HQ in London. It was the third time the studio was presented the prize, receiving it in 1998 for the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, and again for 30 St Mary Axe - also known as the Gherkin - in 2004.

Photography is by Tim Crocker.

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Stirling Prize 2019 awarded to Mikhail Riches' Goldsmith Street social housing

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The Passivhaus and high-density Goldsmith Street social housing scheme designed by Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley has been awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize 2019. London studio Mikhail Riches, led by architects David Mikhail and Annalie Riches, has won the biggest prize in UK architecture for the residential scheme in Norwich.

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Design aims to touch bigger scales in the master plan and double circulation loops focus on the Hawker Centre, this ties pedestrian circulation and supports the backyard image for the users.

Structures constructed around circulations and spaces and masses invites users and tenants for various kind of relations with the steet and interior activities.

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Every fraction of a degree of global warming sets in motion sea level rise that will profoundly threaten coastal cities across the world. Every fraction of a degree prevented will save some.

ClimateCentral's Surging Seas map above shows the incredible stakes and urgency of our climate choices: the calamity that would follow 4°C warming - close to our current path - or the much more manageable consequences if we limit warming to 2 or 1.5 degrees.

When we burn fossil fuels and put carbon pollution into the atmosphere, it heats the planet for centuries. To understand the sea level consequences, picture dumping a bag of ice cubes into your bathtub. The ice doesn't melt instantly - but you know it will. In the same way, each extra degree of warming means a bit more of Greenland and Antarctica will melt - like dumping another bag in the tub.

How long will sea level rise take? That's harder to say. Recent research says that without cutting carbon pollution, we could see more than 6 feet (2 meters) this century. And double that the next. These numbers are bigger than most scientists expected just a year ago.

Then again, Earth is heating up faster than it has in tens of millions of years - so it is difficult to know exactly what to expect. Since we have already warmed the planet more than 1°C, many feet of sea level rise are already in the pipeline beyond what we see today.

Click the info icon at the top of the map or visit Climate Central's Surging Seas to learn more.

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Every fraction of a degree of global warming sets in motion sea level rise that will profoundly threaten coastal cities across the world. Every fraction of a degree prevented will save some.

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A coalition of eight European cities - including Madrid, Wroclaw, and Leeds - have pledged to completely decarbonise their existing building stocks by 2050. EURACTIV's media partner edie.net reports.

The commitment is called Build Upon2 and is being convened by the World Green Building Council (WGBC).

It will see the cities collaboratively develop and implement a built environment renovation and retrofitting framework aimed at boosting residents' wellbeing and local economies while dramatically reducing carbon emissions across all Scopes.

As the framework is implemented over the years, the cities will be required to use local-level data to lobby for national policymakers to set equally ambitious net-zero legislation for buildings.

The overarching aim of the project is for the cities to prove that net-zero is possible for the built environment sector in urban environments, in line with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) recommendation that global carbon emissions should reach zero by mid-century in order to limit warming below 1.5C.

According to WGBC, "deep renovation" centred around wellbeing and environmental sustainability could also solve a host of other challenges, including fuel poverty, indoor air quality and increasing pressure on healthcare and social services.
Scaling up efforts
The cities taking part in the EU-funded scheme are Leeds, England; Dublin, Ireland; Velika Gorica, Croatia; Budaörs, Hungary; Padova, Italy; Madrid, Spain; Wroclaw, Poland and Eskişehir, Turkey. The eight national Green Building Councils for these cities will support WGBC in delivering the programme, along with Climate Alliance and the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE).

"We have to scale up our efforts to bring all our buildings up to date and renovate to provide healthy and comfortable living conditions, whilst at the same time reducing their energy demand," WGBC's chief executive Cristina Gamboa said.

"Energy renovation is an indispensable long-term sustainable solution to alleviate energy poverty and to deliver warmer homes for our residents, healthier schools for our children and reduced energy bills for our hospitals and businesses."

As Build Upon2 progresses, WGBC will make the net-zero framework available to the Covenant of Mayors Office-Europe, which represents more than 7,000 local authorities across the continent. Its aim is to get a further two cities signed up to the commitment by the end of 2020.

WGBC believes that the building sector must operate at net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, and launched its Advancing Towards Zero campaign in 2016 to drive the transition globally.
Net-zero now
The launch of the commitment follows on from WGBC's move last summer to urge corporates within the built environment sectors to set net-zero carbon targets for 2030.

Specifically, the body asked on companies to track, verify and report on commitments to eliminate operational carbon emissions from their building stocks. Majid Al Futtaim, a shopping mall, retail and leisure firm in the Middle East and North Africa, Integral Group and internet of things (IoT) lighting firm Signify were the first three signatories of the commitment.

Since then, the idea of net-zero buildings has gained increasing traction in the UK, largely in the wake of the IPCC's landmark report on global warming in 2018. On a policy level, Prime Minister Theresa May last year vowed to halve the energy use from new buildings by 2030 and to halve the energy costs from the existing building stock - both domestically and commercially - within the same timeframe.

More recently, the Government published its £420m construction sector deal, outlining a course for halving building energy use and emissions by 2030.

As for the UK's public and private sector, the past few months have seen moves such as the Greater Manchester Combined Authority pledging to make all new buildings net-zero by 2028; London's City Hall signing C40 Cities's net-zero building pledge and, most recently, Skanska UK pledging to become a carbon-neutral business by 2045.

The UK's built environment sector is no small contributor to national emissions, with heat and power for buildings currently accounting for 40% of national energy usage. If the UK Government decides to adopt the Committee on Climate Change's (CCC) advice on legislating for a net-zero economy by 2050, building emissions will therefore need to be abated more rapidly than they have been during the past three decades.

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A coalition of eight European cities - including Madrid, Wroclaw, and Leeds - have pledged to completely decarbonise their existing building stocks by 2050. EURACTIV's media partner edie.net reports. The commitment is called Build Upon2 and is being convened by the World Green Building Council (WGBC).

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A series of low-carbon urban quarters are set to be built as part of Reinventing Cities, a global competition that aims to help cities eliminate carbon emissions.

Construction will start on competition-winning projects in cities including Milan, Paris, Reykjavik, Oslo, San Francisco and Montreal.

"They're starting their implementation," said Hélène Chartier, head of zero-carbon development at C40 Cities, "a network of the world's megacities committed to addressing climate change".

The global organisation, which now has 97 member cities that together represent a quarter of the global economy, is managing the competition.

"We have got the building permits and they are starting," said Chartier.

C40 Cities launched the competition four years ago "to drive carbon-neutral and resilient urban regeneration".

In total, 49 projects in 19 different cities will be realised as part of the competition, which called for proposals to develop underutilised spaces into "beacons of sustainability and resiliency".

Winners were chosen on the basis of the ambition of their strategies for reducing whole-lifecycle emissions including both embodied carbon - emissions generated during construction - and operational carbon, which covers emissions caused by the building's use.

Sixty-five per cent of winners aim for net-zero emissions and the remainder are targeting reductions of over 50 per cent.

"The competition said you have to strive for zero carbon," said Chartier. 'They had to make a carbon assessment including a lifecycle analysis of their projects. Some are better than others."

Projects about to go on site include an urban quarter at Porte de Montreuil in Paris, which is billed as "the first zero-carbon neighbourhood in Paris".

Designed by architects Atelier Georges, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, Serie Architects and Bond Society, the 35-hectare site in the east of Paris aims to reduce lifecycle emissions by 85 per cent through the use of local biomaterials and on-site renewable power generation.

Reykjavik project Lifandi Landslag will be Iceland's largest timber building while Oslo development Recipe for Future Living aims to reduce construction emissions by 90 per cent by recycling materials.

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The Reinventing Cities competition aims to help cities align themselves with the aims of the 2005 Paris Agreement, which commits signatories to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

This involves halving carbon emissions by 2030 and becoming net-zero by 2050. "All our cities align their strategy to be carbon neutral by 2050," said Chartier.

Chartier added that reaching zero operational emissions is achievable but eliminating embodied emissions generated by the construction supply chain is "totally impossible".

"Reaching net-zero on embodied, you cannot do it without offsets," Chartier said. "It's totally impossible. So the question is really to push them to set reduction on embodied carbon at the maximum and then to offset the last part."

"Each team is really free to develop their own offsetting strategy but the most important thing is to reach net-zero operational emissions, minimise embodied emissions and offset the rest with a good offsetting system."

Entrants were encouraged to "go for local offsets and not just buy them." In Milan, the L'INNESTO project designed by Barreca & LA Varra "aims to achieve carbon neutrality in 30 years thanks to a low-carbon district heat network". It will also make use of pre-assembled construction technology and bio-sourced materials.

The Porte de Montreuil project in Paris will be powered by on-site geothermal and solar plants, which will also provide power to neighbouring areas. Unavoidable emissions will be offset via a carbon fund that will allow it to "go beyond the carbon neutrality goal".

The project will additionally feature a superstructure that is 80 per cent cross-laminated timber. Facades will be entirely made of local bio-sourced materials including terracotta bricks and hemp.

Four-fifths of the materials used will come from the Paris region while all spaces will be flexible, allowing them to be used for different purposes in future to avoid the need for demolition.

C40 Cities plans to launch a second Reinventing Cities competition later this year.

Carbon revolution
This article is part of Dezeen's carbon revolution series, which explores how this miracle material could be removed from the atmosphere and put to use on earth. Read all the content at: www.dezeen.com/carbon.
The sky photograph used in the carbon revolution graphic is by Taylor van Riper via Unsplash.

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Urban developments that "strive for zero carbon" to start on site in Milan, Paris, Reykjavik and Oslo

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A series of low-carbon urban quarters are set to be built as part of Reinventing Cities, a global competition that aims to help cities eliminate carbon emissions. Construction will start on competition-winning projects in cities including Milan, Paris, Reykjavik, Oslo, San Francisco and Montreal.

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Eco research lab Finding Infinity has been working with architects, investors, developers and councils on a concept to transform Melbourne into a zero-carbon city by 2030, and has unveiled 15 prototypes that could make the plans a reality.

Melbourne-based Finding Infinity has spent the past two years developing A New Normal, a 10-point strategy for the Australian city to become completely self-sufficient in terms of energy, food and water, and to also be zero-waste.

According to studio principal Ross Harding, the plans would not only improve the city's environmental credentials, but also make it more profitable. He claims a switch to clean energy, water reuse and a circular economy would provide over 80,000 jobs.

"It's a $100 billion transformation of the city that would pay for itself in less than 10 years," Harding told Dezeen.

"We're talking about integrating the physical infrastructure that makes the city work with the cultural infrastructure that enables us all to thrive."

For Melbourne Design Week 2021, running from 26 March to 5 April, Finding Infinity has teamed up with some of Melbourne's leading architects to show how the city's physical environment could change as a result.

The designs - which include a sewage treatment plant that doubles as a nightclub, and community hubs in converted multi-storey car parks- explore how sustainable technologies could make the city a more healthy and enjoyable place to live.

Prototypes and pilot versions of these proposals are on show in an exhibition within a former office building at 130 Collins Street. A series of talks have also been talking place in the space, which have been live-streamed to a digital audience.

"We wanted to try and find a way to unlock this strategy," explained Harding.

"A report is something that the world won't really connect with," he continued. "If you want to make radical change really happen, the theory is that you have to make it easy for people to connect with. You have to make it engaging, by connecting it with culture."

One of the proposals, developed by John Wardle Architects, looks at activating Melbourne's unused rooftops.

It suggests that, by installing canopies made out of solar-energy-harnessing photovoltaics, these spaces could be used for co-working, community gardening, learning or events. At the same time, they could help to power the city.

"Melbourne has only implemented one per cent of its total solar energy potential. We worked out that, if you put solar energy on every second rooftop, it would generate 40 per cent of the energy the city consumes," said Harding.

A team led by Grimshaw has designed "an electrified vehicle pit stop" where people can take their cars to be converted to electric, while Foolscap has looked at upgrading the rail network as a food and drink destination, to encourage people to use trains rather than air travel.

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Wowowa suggests installing anaerobic digesters at sites including Fitzroy swimming pool, where it would convert food waste into biogas that would heat the pool and sauna. Similarly, 6 Degrees wants to use the waste generated by Queen Victoria Market to power a moonlight cinema.

Hassell's proposal sees an existing multilevel car park in Little Collins Street become a battery bank, using vehicle-to-grid technology to optimise the use of battery power from electric vehicles. To demonstrate this, the entire exhibition has been powered using two second-hand Nissan Leaf batteries.

Other proposals include a museum that makes non-recyclable waste a spectacle of the past, existing buildings refurbished to meet Passivhaus standards, a social enterprise that teaches repair and reuse, and a hub of solar agriculture in Latrobe Valley.

They are all available to view in detail on the A New Normal website.

Both the strategy and the 15 design concepts were developed in response to consultation with councillors across the 31 municipalities of Greater Melbourne. The next step is to find investment to bring these projects to life.

"These 15 projects unlock $100 billion transformation," said Harding. "The main hook is that we're not just talking about these projects; we're trying to find $50 million by the end of the year to build them at full scale.

Harding believes that, following both the recent bushfires and the Covid-19 pandemic, people in Melbourne are more open than ever to the idea of systemic change.

He argues that the only barriers to making these concepts a reality are cultural and political, rather than financial or technological. So by proposing ideas that build on the existing culture of the city, he believes the ideas would be welcomed by citizens.

"Instead of around blaming the government for not doing enough, we can make it easy for them," he said. "We can transform the city to be completely self-sufficient and we can all profit from it."

The exhibition title, A New Normal, is intended to reiterate this idea that a more eco-friendly city can be better for everyone.

"A New Normal is not about Covid," Harding added. "We need to create a new normal with a city that had no negative impact on the environment. That's normal."
A New Normal is on show from 26 March to 5 April 2021 as part of Melbourne Design Week. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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Finding Infinity develops $100 billion zero-carbon strategy for Melbourne "that would pay for itself in less than 10 years"

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Stirling Prize-winning studio Mikhail Riches has unveiled details of the low-rise Passivhaus housing it is designing in York, UK, which will be net-zero carbon when in use.

The scheme is being developed by Mikhail Riches for the City of York Council's Housing Delivery Programme and will encompass seven sites across the city.

With over 600 homes set to be built, it will become the largest Passivhaus and net-zero carbon housing scheme in the country.

London studio Mikhail Riches' goal for the Housing Delivery Programme is to provide affordable homes with low-energy bills and encourage residents to live low-carbon lifestyles.

This will be achieved through energy-efficient designs and the use of renewable energy technologies, alongside the provision of sustainable transport methods and allotment space for residents to grow their own food.

"The developments are really trying to promote a low-carbon lifestyle through low car ownership, sustainable transport methods and food growing," project architect Sophie Cole told Dezeen.

"This allows for landscapes to focus on people rather than cars, we're providing ample space for bike storage, growing opportunities, and spaces for children to play safely and communities to meet."

Mikhail Riches is currently in the process of developing three sites of the sites, two of which have been submitted for planning.

They will have a range of one to five beds dwellings, provided through flats and low-rise houses with a range of accessibility levels.

There will also be multi-generational dwellings that have an attached, self-contained space for elderly relatives or younger family members seeking independence.

The numbers of different dwellings across the sites depends on their area and the specific needs of the immediate communities, identified through public consultations. They do, however, all utilise the same passive solar designs and rigorous Passivhaus energy standards, like its Stirling prize-winning Goldsmith Street in Norwich.

"Similarly to Goldsmith Street, one of the key principles is that it's a passive solar scheme," Cole explained. "We're trying to get elevations facing south where possible in order to achieve Passivhaus in a cost-effective way."

Passivhaus is an international energy performance standard intended to dramatically reduce the requirement for space heating and cooling.

This forms a foundation for the studio to then make the developments net-zero carbon in operation, through the use of air-source heat pumps and photovoltaic arrays on rooftops.

"All the developments will be zero-carbon in operation, which means each development will generate as much energy per year as the development requires per year," Cole said.

"Passivhaus provides a great basis for this because Passivhaus already really reduces that energy requirement."

Other elements of the scheme that Mikhail Riches has borrowed from its Goldsmith Street scheme include the contemporary interpretation of terraced streets and the use of deliberately simple materials like brick, render and tiled roofs.

The aesthetic of each Housing Delivery Programme site will be tailored to suit its immediate context, with some featuring unique details that pay homage to features of nearby buildings.

Mikhail Riches creates energy-efficient terraced streets as social housing in Norwich

Mikhail Riches' landscape design will ensure most dwellings across the Housing Delivery Programme have private outdoor space. All of them will have access to semi-private and public green areas that encourage interaction between residents.

This will be possible because of the studio's early decision to design the landscapes around people, banishing car spaces to the perimeters of the site.

"Most people will have their own private space, but there'll also be shared external spaces similar to the ginnels that were between the back gardens on Goldsmith Street," Cole explained.

"We'll also introduce as much opportunity for growth in numbers as possible, whether that's fruit trees, or raised beds - small scale productive landscapes for all the residents to get involved in."

Though the scheme will not be carbon-neutral in terms of embodied energy, Mikhail Riches is continually monitoring how these emissions can be reduced or offset.

Embodied energy refers to the carbon dioxide generated through the construction of a building, including the extraction, processing and transporting of building materials.

"We are measuring embodied carbon on these projects and looking to base some of our design decisions on the outcomes of that embodied carbon analysis," Cole said.

"We're also looking to improve the embodied carbon as the programme progresses, so we will make improvements from site to site if possible."

Mikhail Riches will "aim for zero carbon" in all projects after Stirling Prize win

Her words echo those of the studio's co-founder, Annalie Riches, who told Dezeen that "as a practice, we don't want to do anything that doesn't aim for zero carbon now".

Mikhail Riches is a London architecture studio founded by Riches and David Mikhail, who were formerly directors of the practices David Mikhail Architects and Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects.

In 2019, the studio was awarded the Stirling Prize for Goldsmith Street - a scheme with 105 low-energy homes designed with Cathy Hawley for Norwich council. It was hailed by RIBA president Alan Jones as "a beacon of hope" in the face of the climate emergency.

Visuals are by Darcstudio unless stated.

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Mikhail Riches releases visuals of carbon-neutral housing scheme in York

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Stirling Prize-winning studio Mikhail Riches has unveiled details of the low-rise Passivhaus housing it is designing in York, UK, which will be net-zero carbon when in use. The scheme is being developed by Mikhail Riches for the City of York Council's Housing Delivery Programme and will encompass seven sites across the city.

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Hackney in east London is committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2040 but some residents are up in arms about initiatives to reduce car use. Dezeen spoke to Jon Burke, the councillor charged with delivering the controversial programme.

"My mission is to completely transform, in the limited time that I've got, the way in which the borough functions across my portfolio areas to bring us in line with the finite limits of the planet," said Burke, who is the council's cabinet member for energy, waste, transport and public realm.

A former civil engineer appointed to the role by Hackney mayor Philip Glanville in 2016, he claimed the borough has "established the leadership position" among urban councils for its ambition.

Burke's job is to ensure that the Hackney, which is one of the 10 most deprived boroughs in the country, meets the ambitious decarbonisation targets it set following its declaration of a climate emergency last year.
Zero emissions by 2040
These involve a 45 per cent cut in emissions against 2010 levels by 2030 and delivering zero emissions by 2040, which is ten years earlier than the UK government's target.

This will be achieved through measures including investment in renewable energy, the UK's largest urban tree-planting scheme, encouraging electric-car use and reducing vehicle journeys.

The latter has proved particularly controversial, with planters and bollards installed as part of the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods initiative to prevent rat-running (cut-through driving to avoid traffic) in residential streets becoming the targets of protests, graffiti and vandalism.

Burke himself is frequently abused on social media by angry motorists who have been inconvenienced by the changes.

"F*ck off, get the f*ck out from Hackney you d*ckhead!" tweeted one protester angered that road closures added an additional nine minutes to his journey home. On the day this article was published, Burke revealed that he had received a death threat from an irate motorist.

"Open all roads now or we will get violence," wrote the anonymous author of the note sent to Burke. "We intend to burn down your house while you are sleeping".
Planter vandals to be prosecuted
"You've got to be led by what you know is good practice and what will work but you've also got to have the guts to deliver that in the teeth of opposition," said Burke, who is notoriously combative with his critics on Twitter.

He recently promised to install CCTV to catch planter vandals in action: "When we catch you, we'll prosecute," he tweeted.

Under Burke, the council has established Hackney Light and Power, a publicly owned energy-services company, to drive the move away from fossil fuels.

Earlier this year the council switched all its own power consumption to renewable sources and earlier this month it completed its first photovoltaic scheme, which will power West Reservoir Centre, a leisure building in the borough.

In the longer term, Burke aims to turn the borough into a decentralised urban power station by installing solar panels on rooftops of council-owned housing across the borough.
Hackney could become "leading urban power generator"
"There's huge potential for us to go further because Hackney Council owns 50 per cent of the residential roof space in the borough," he said. "The potential for us to turn Hackney into a leading urban power generator is significant."

Trees play a major role in Burke's plans: he aims to cover at least 40 per cent of the 19-square-kilometre borough with a tree canopy featuring 10,000 new trees to cool streets, sequester carbon and increase biodiversity.

"There is a huge body of literature out there that makes it abundantly clear that trees and other forms of green infrastructure have a powerful mitigatory effect on the consequences of the effects of warming cities," he explained.

"One medium-sized street tree, when you take into account evaporative cooling and shading, has the same atmospheric cooling effect as ten room-sized air conditioning units operating 24 hours a day."
"Most diverse tree canopy"
Half the trees being planted are native varieties, to retain biodiversity, giving the borough "the most diverse tree canopy in the country outside Kew Gardens".

"A London plane, which is native to Granada in southern Spain, supports no insects whatsoever," he said. "On the other hand, a lime tree I think will support up to 300 different species of aphid."

Burke's programme will also see paved areas broken up and given over to greenery to counter the urban heat island effect and to allow rainwater - which is likely to increase in intensity as climate disrupts weather patterns - to soak away rather than overwhelming drains.

"You need to reach a minimum of 40 per cent canopy cover on the street and you need to start systematically breaking open areas of hardstanding and creating a large number of new rainwater gardens and larger tree pits," he explained.
Concrete and asphalt act as "giant storage heater"
"Hardstanding in the city is just basically a giant storage heater and that has an effect on overnight temperatures," Burke said.

Many of Hackney's 280,000 residents have no outdoor space of their own and are reliant on public open space. This became particularly apparent over the summer when Hackney's parks filled up as the hot weather, combined with Covid-19 restrictions, left people with few other options for enjoying time outdoors.

Moves to clamp down on the resulting anti-social behaviour such as littering and urinating caused friction at the time but in the longer term, the experience has shown that London will need more public space in future.

"The social-norm vacuum that's been created by coronavirus has encouraged people to behave in ways that I do not imagine they would have behaved previously in parks and green spaces," Burke said. "The fact that large numbers of people have been at home meant that there are more people in green spaces."
More green spaces planned
Burke said that the pandemic has upturned development models for the capital, which are based on the notion that 20 per cent of the population will be away from the city at any given time.

"What coronavirus demonstrated is that this isn't sufficient," he said. "So we will be able to deliver an increase in green space in the borough by literally becoming groundbreakers and tearing up the roads."

By far the most contentious part of Burke's programme is the drive to reduce car use across the borough. This is driven by health, safety and lifestyle concerns, as well as to reduce emissions: Hackney has the sixth-highest mortality rate from air pollution of any borough in the country and the highest pedestrian and cyclist mortality rate in London.

Yet just 30 per cent of Hackney households own a car - a figure that has declined from 51 per cent in 2001 - while around half of all car journeys in the borough are made by people on their way to and from other areas.
Half of car journeys add "zero value" to borough
"Almost half the motor vehicles on our streets at any one time are cars that are passing through Hackney and adding zero value to the life of the borough," Burke said. "So it's my job to help minimise that."

Hackney has committed to installing at least one electric vehicle charging point on every residential street and waives parking-permit charges for electric cars.

But electric cars are still cars, taking up road space and potentially causing accidents. The plan is to encourage people to walk, cycle or use public transport instead of getting into private vehicles.

"I'm putting plans in place that will make it attractive for people to divest themselves of their car over time," Burke said.
"Complete delusion"
Yet Burke rejects the approach adopted by some boroughs, who have focussed on delivering better cycling infrastructure in the hope of tempting people to use bikes instead of cars.

" I think that's a complete delusion," he said. "As a solution, it's gonna leave residents bitterly disappointed because cars have a huge cultural and psychological hold on people. The idea that the guy who's driving down the road in a huge Range Rover with tinted windows and his arms hanging out the window is not cycling into town because there isn't good enough infrastructure I think is a bit naive, frankly."

"Ultimately, the motor vehicle will remain part of urban life. The vision for the role of the motor vehicle is characterised as being smaller, slower, cleaner and fewer," he added.

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, which blossomed around the country earlier this summer when central government provided councils with £250 million of funding to promote "active travel", have been introduced in Hackney to discourage cars from cutting through residential streets.
Controversy over LTNs
Streets are closed to vehicles at one end using "modal filters" that allow pedestrians and cycles through, displacing non-local traffic to main arteries.

Their introduction comes at a time when people are abandoning public transport in favour of cars due to Covid-19, and when the increase in the cost of the Congestion Charge in central London has pushed more vehicles to surrounding areas.

Yet LTNs have been perceived by many as the reason for increased congestion on the roads. Residents have launched campaigns against LTNs and some councils have already scrapped them in the face of protests.

"One of the challenges is the potential for those vehicles to be displaced onto main roads but we're looking at this problem from the wrong end of the telescope," Burke argues.

"Main roads are for vehicles to pass through. And what has happened is we have created a road network that does not have sufficient capacity to accommodate all the cars on the network. What we have done over the decades is we have allowed our residential areas to become a kind of pressure release valve for the main roads."
Reducing cars "shouldn't be a radical statement"
"The answer for that problem is not to open up residential streets and allow them to accommodate even more cars," he concluded. "The answer is to deliver holistic approaches to reduce the overall number of cars. That shouldn't be a radical statement."

As pass-through drivers adapt to the new conditions and avoid Hackney, neighbouring boroughs will see more traffic, forcing them to introduce similar measures themselves until people stop using cars.

"I can't come in and solve Haringey's transport issues," Burke said. "I can't solve Tower Hamlets' transport issues. My job is to reduce the amount of through traffic coming through Hackney. It does have a displacement effect on neighbouring boroughs and those boroughs will have to deal with the fact that there are too many motor vehicles and they'll have to take action and it will have a cascade effect across London."

Hackney Council is also considering introducing its own congestion charge and imposing a tax on workplace parking spaces.
Local congestion charge being considered
"Boroughs have some, if not entirely unilateral, powers to go forward with congestion charging and workplace parking levies," Burke said. "One of the things we're producing a feasibility study for at the moment is the possibility of local congestion charging."

Hackney's initiatives come at a time when, despite legislating to reduce UK carbon emissions to zero by 2050, the national government has announced a new £29 billion road-building programme.

Meanwhile, the Greater London Authority, the body headed by mayor Sadiq Khan that oversees the city's transport strategy, is pushing ahead with plans for the £1.2 billion Silvertown Tunnel project, which will see a new road tunnel built beneath the Thames. This is despite the fact that the GLA declared a climate emergency in 2018.
"If you build roads, cars will fill them"
"They [the GLA] have done some really good stuff in transport but their investment plans are driven by people who do not understand induced demand," Burke said. "If you build roads, cars will fill them. There is no mechanism through the construction of roads to reduce the number of cars on those roads."

Burke called on the mayor's office to scrap the scheme. "City Hall needs the moral courage to turn around and say we've invested a lot of money in this, but we recognise that it's incompatible with the pathway that we've set ourselves."

"Seemingly the rest of the political class just kind of rolling over and accepting that's inevitable, Hackney is here to demonstrate there are different ways of doing things," Burke said.

"There are different ways of doing things that will manifestly increase people's sense of health and wellbeing."

Photography is by Hackney Council.

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Hackney Council aims to "completely transform" services to meet zero-carbon target

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Hackney in east London is committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2040 but some residents are up in arms about initiatives to reduce car use. Dezeen spoke to Jon Burke, the councillor charged with delivering the controversial programme.

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For our 2020 review, we take a look at 10 of the best examples of carbon-neutral design, including zero-carbon and carbon-negative buildings, such as a floating off-grid office and a house made of hempcrete.

Hotel Bauhofstrasse, Germany, by Von M
The snow-white, shingle-clad Hotel Bauhofstrasse in Ludwigsburg was built to be the first carbon-neutral building in the town.

Though its base is made of concrete, the building was constructed from wooden modules, which Von M claims off-set the use of the carbon-intense concrete.

"In total, 440 cubic metres of wood were used, thus permanently extracting a total of 880 tons of CO2 through storage and substitution effects," the studio said.
Find out more about Hotel Bauhofstrasse › The Floating Office Rotterdam, Holland, by Powerhouse Company
Dutch studio Powerhouse Company will moor its off-grid Floating Office, which will be carbon-neutral and self-sufficient, on the waters of the Maas River in Rotterdam.

The timber building will have solar panels and a water-based heat-exchange system and was designed to be an example of "climate-resilient office design".
Find out more about the Floating Office › Paradise, UK, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios' design for a six-storey cross-laminated timber (CLT) office, Paradise, is set to be carbon-neutral. The studio was one of the founding signatories of climate change action group Architects Declare and is focusing on creating more sustainable architecture.

The architects calculated that the sequestered carbon in the timber makes up for the carbon emissions generated during the construction process and the first 60 years of the building's operation.
Find out more about Paradise › Powerhouse Telemark, Norway, by Snøhetta
Snøhetta's carbon-negative Powerhouse Telemark office in Norway has a large photovoltaic canopy covering its roof and a south-facing facade that means it will produce more energy than it will consume during its lifespan.

It is the studio's fourth Powerhouse building, all of which were designed in response to the climate emergency and with the aim of offering a "sustainable model for the future of workspaces".
Find out more about Powerhouse Telemark › A-Block Building Expansion, Canada, by Dialog
Dialog's design for the A-Block Building Expansion, which will be added to an existing building at Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology, will be made from CLT and have solar panels to produce energy to offset annual carbon emissions.

According to the architecture studio, it will be Canada's "first-ever mass timber, net-zero carbon, higher-education facility".
Find out more about A-Block Building Expansion › Passivhaus council housing, UK, by Mikhail Riches
York in the UK is set to receive the country's largest Passivhaus and net-zero carbon housing scheme. Designed by architecture studio Mikhail Riches for the City of York Council's Housing Delivery Programme.

The studio's goal was to provide 600 affordable homes with low-energy bills that also encourage residents to live low-carbon lifestyles.
Find out more about Passivhaus council housing › Flat House, UK, by Practice Architecture
The Flat House in Cambridgeshire was constructed from prefabricated hempcrete, a material that's becoming popular due to its ability to sequester carbon.

The owners of Margent Farm, where the house is located and which cultivates hemp, challenged Practice Architecture to use the plant to create an on-site residence with "incredibly low embodied carbon".
Find out more about Paradise › Hotel GSH extension, Denmark, by 3XN
A carbon-negative extension will be added to the Hotel GSH on the Danish island of Bornholm by 3XN and its sustainability-focuses sister studio GXN.

3XN said the goal is for the extension to become carbon-negative over its lifetime, absorbing more carbon than it consumes. It will utilise passive design and be built from CLT.
Find out more about the Hotel GSH extension ›

No Footprint House, Costa Rica, by A-01
No Footprint House is a prototype for a series of zero-carbon homes, set in the small village of Ojochal in Costa Rica, which is designed to have its climate passively controlled.

This prototype, called NFH-108, is the first in a series and emits 40 per cent less carbon than a typical Costa Rican house of the same size. A second one will have a 60 per cent reduction, the next one another 20, and the final house will offset the remainder through the production of local energy.
Find out more about No Footprint House › CLT Passivhaus, US, by Placetailor and Generate
Studio Generate and architect and developer Placetailor are set to build a carbon-neutral CLT block of flats in Boston that will be made using a modular "kit of parts" system and aim to operate at a net-zero-carbon level.

The studio said the building would act as a "carbon sink" by storing the carbon in the timber of the CLT cellular structure and envelope over the lifetime of the building.
Find out more about the CLT Passivhaus ›

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Dezeen's top 10 carbon-neutral buildings of 2020

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For our 2020 review, we take a look at 10 of the best examples of carbon-neutral design, including zero-carbon and carbon-negative buildings, such as a floating off-grid office and a house made of hempcrete. Hotel Bauhofstrasse, Germany, by Von M The snow-white, shingle-clad Hotel Bauhofstrasse in Ludwigsburg was built to be the first carbon-neutral building in the town.

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Architecture studio Generate and developer Placetailor have unveiled plans to build a carbon-neutral apartment block in Boston using a cross-laminated timber "kit of parts".

The proposed five-storey block will use Generate's Model-C prototype "kit of parts" system, which is a type of modular prefabrication that allows for disassembly and reuse.

It is intended to achieve the Passivhaus standard for energy efficiency and will aim to operate at a net-zero-carbon level, which will make it an important example of a more sustainable building, according to Generate.

"To our knowledge, it will be one of the most sustainable buildings in America," CEO John Klein told Dezeen.

The parts will be made of cross-laminated timber (CLT) - an engineered wood consisting of laminated timber sections. The material is less energy-intensive than conventional materials like concrete and steel.

The architecture studio has teamed up with local developer Placetailor, which focuses on creating Passivhaus, net-zero energy, and net-zero carbon, to develop the building as a demonstration project.

Once complete, it will be the city's "first ground-up, full cross-laminated-timber Passivhaus", according to Generate.

"By replacing conventional concrete and steel construction materials, which significantly contribute to the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, Model-C projects instead act as a carbon sink by storing the carbon in the timber of the CLT cellular structure and envelope over the lifetime of the building."

When complete Generate hopes that the building will operate at a net-zero-carbon level. This will mainly be achieved because of the large amounts of wood used in the building will have absorbed carbon dioxide, according to Klein.

"Additionally, it is the large amount of wood fiber in the cross-laminated timber panels that act as a carbon sink - ultimately tackling both operational and embodied energy with a single system," he said.

The building will include a CLT rooftop canopy to which solar panels can be easily mounted. The walls, meanwhile, will comprise mineral wool and cross-laminated timber to ensure the interiors are well-insulated.

"This approach enables the building to reduce its heating and cooling loads," Klein said.

Sidewalk Labs tests possibilities for timber construction with 35-storey Proto-Model

Designed for the Lower Roxbury neighbourhood, the 19,000-square-foot (836-square-metre) building will contain 14 residential apartments plus a co-working space at ground level for the local community.

The Model-C can also be tweaked to suit different sites and requirements.

For the project, they are building on an acute triangular block, which Klein said shows "the system's adaptability to extreme angular conditions, pervasive throughout urban centres".

The system can work with various cladding materials, but this building will have a lightweight porous metal cladding. It will be prefabricated in sections, which in turn will reduce the need for scaffolding during construction.

The building will also include modular bathroom pods that will be prefabricated off-site and then plugged into the building - processes that help save time and reduce construction waste.

Generate and Placetailor expect to begin construction in June 2020 and finish by early 2021.

"There is a huge opportunity to greatly simplify the building, if enough time is spent in early coordination between the structure, shell and systems," Placetailor's director of strategy, Colin Booth told Dezeen.

"We look forward to showing the commercial housing market how a building can be at once simpler and more comfortable, while relying on a biophilic and digital-design-oriented material,"

"The CLT panels can be pre-routed to integrate mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP), which is already reduced due to the low energy demands of a Passivhaus; there is a reduction in harmful fireproofing materials, and there are ways to reduce things like paint, through the use of dyed plaster or drywall, by exposing the face of the CLT where possible," Booth added.

"The upfront digital design effort required for construction with mass timber enables architects to think of buildings as digitally manufactured, kit-of-part assemblies, fabricated with extremely high tolerances," he told Dezeen.

Generate is currently exploring the potential application of the Model-C system on projects up to 18 storeys, based on the new 2021 Tall Wood building codes. For now, mass-timber prototypes in the USA are limited to six storeys.

The project is the latest venture to test the limits of timber construction. Sidewalk Labs, the architecture and urbanism arm of Google parent company Alphabet, has unveiled a digital model for what would be the world's tallest mass-timber building, reaching 35 storeys.

Renderings are by Forbes Massie Studio.
Project credits:
Placetailor

Placetailor team: Evan Smith and Colin Booth
Generate design team: John Klein, Zlatan Sehovic, Chris Weaver, John Fechtel, Jaehun Woo and Clarence Yi-Hsien Lee
Placetailor design team: Andres Bernal, Michelangelo LaTona, Travis Anderson, Elizabeth Hauver
Placetailor general contractor: Laura Jolly and Evan Smith
Burohappold team: Paul Richardson and Wolf Mangelsdorf
Ripcord engineering: Sonia Barrantes and Jacob Staub
Code Red: Brian Kuhn and Caitlin Gamache

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Architecture studio Generate and developer Placetailor have unveiled plans to build a carbon-neutral apartment block in Boston using a cross-laminated timber "kit of parts". The proposed five-storey block will use Generate's Model-C prototype "kit of parts" system, which is a type of modular prefabrication that allows for disassembly and reuse.

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Architecture studio 3XN is developing a carbon-negative extension for Hotel GSH on the Danish island of Bornholm that will be built almost entirely from wood.

Designed by 3XN in collaboration with its sustainability-focused sister studio GXN, the new eco-friendly wing will provide 24 rooms, a conference room and rooftop spa for the hotel.

It follows the studio's completion of Hotel GSH, which is an acronym for Hotel Green Solution House, in Rønne in 2015.
Hotel first of its kind in Denmark
The Danish studios' goal for the extension is for it to be carbon-negative over its lifespan, which they claim "has not been seen in a commercial building in Denmark before".

Carbon-negative buildings, also described as climate positive, are designed to absorb more carbon than they consume during their lifetime.

To achieve this, it will be built with a cross-laminated timber structure, insulated with wood fibres and clad with wooden panels. It will also utilise passive design and renewable energy technologies, and contain furnishings made from recycled materials.

"If we in Denmark want to be able to achieve our climate goals, the construction industry needs to think and act differently, and there is, therefore, a great need for lighthouse projects like this," said Kasper Guldager Jensen, partner at 3XN.

"The idea is simple - we believe that climate positive architecture combines good design and good business," Jensen continued.

"Hotel GSH will provide a blueprint for a climate positive future and this experience is a destination worth travelling for, which ultimately makes it a good business for our client."
Sequestered carbon will offset carbon emissions
According to 3XN and GXN, the sequestered carbon contained in the wood used to build the new wing is expected to offset the carbon dioxide emitted by the building over its lifespan.

Sequestered carbon refers to the amount of carbon dioxide a tree removes from the atmosphere as it grows and subsequently stores as carbon. When a tree is logged for use as timber, it will continue to store it.

Once complete, the studios also intend to utilise renewable energy and passive design strategies to help reduce its carbon footprint further.

According to GXN, this will include harvesting solar energy to heat water, connecting to a local energy grid that relies on renewable energy technologies and using natural ventilation to negate dependence on mechanical systems.
All building materials will be reusable
3XN and GXN will use reversible joints throughout construction to ensure the extension and its components can be dismantled and reused at the end of its useful life.

Any offcuts from the structure will be transformed into furniture and furnishings for the wing's interiors, ensuring there is minimal demolition waste.

Snøhetta designs carbon-negative Powerhouse Telemark office in Norway

In the new conference room, 3XN and GXN plan to use some debris from local granite quarries in Bornholm as decoration. This stone will also help regulate the temperature of the conference space using thermal mass.
Hotel GSH also built with recyclable materials
3XN is a Copenhagen-based studio that was founded in 1986 by Nielsen alongside Lars Frank Nielsen and Hans Peter Svendler Nielsen. Its innovation arm GXN was established in 2007.

The studios' design of Hotel GSH in 2015 was intended to demonstrate how architecture can adopt the principles of the circular economy and utilise green building solutions. Like the proposed extension, it was built with materials that can be disassembled, recycled or are biodegradable, and utilises on-site energy production.

Elsewhere, the studios are collaborating on the 2 Finsbury Avenue office complex in central London, UK, which includes a 35-storey skyscraper.

It is being developed with the goal of being net-zero carbon in both its construction and operation through the use of low carbon materials, passive design strategies and possibly the re-use of elements from existing buildings on site.

Visuals are by 3XN.

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3XN to add carbon-negative extension to Hotel GSH on Bornholm island

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Architecture studio 3XN is developing a carbon-negative extension for Hotel GSH on the Danish island of Bornholm that will be built almost entirely from wood.

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Oldie but goodie, all the boards of the competition + process and goals

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In the fall of 2008, Sitra inked a letter of cooperation with the City of Helsinki to explore new means of urban development on a city block in the City's harbor reclamation project soon to break ground. In its early form, this exploration was to be housed under the umbrella of Sitra's Energy Programme and was to be managed at some distance, allowing consultants to largely shape the project. But it was quickly realized that the opportunities and needs were much greater and that the built environment was a challenge that demanded Sitra's resources and leadership.

The built environment is the largest negative factor in the stability of ecosystems and the climate. As populations become increasingly urbanized, the evolution of cities will largely shape the outcome of our long dependence on natural resources. Two pathways of evolution are evident: an urban society that is in balance with the environment, or one that has depleted available natural capital. The decisions that will direct this evolution are being made now by politicians, financiers, designers and builders.

It is clear that no single organization, profession or nation can achieve the goals of sustainable global development. It will require an architecture of solutions including low/no carbon buildings; sustainable economic systems; enhanced mobility; sustainable planning and energy policies; resilient social systems (access, equity and capacity), among countless others.

Recognizing the need and opportunity to improve sustainable building practices, Sitra launched the Low2No Sustainable Development Design Competition in 2009. The goal was to attract and identify the best team to design a large mixed-use building complex as a way to explore the ecosystem that shapes the built environment and develop interventions that would nudge the city toward a low carbon future.

Given that the repertoire of sustainable urban development models are limited, especially for exisinting cities, Sitra found no ready-made team.

First we asked "who?" We believe that identifying the best team and approach is the key factor impacting the robustness of the final solution.

Then we asked "how?" Our competition was designed to seek approaches for four central objectives applied at the scale of a city block:

low- and one day no- carbon emissions

energy efficiency

high architectural, spatial and social value

sustainable materials and methods

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Useful data and refs in each section, interesting project even if not to copy&paste in Lempäälä :-)

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Solution

The ocean covers two thirds of the planet. It is a vast resource that can help solve the complex challenges coastal cities face. We build for people who want to live sustainably across the nexus of energy, water, food, and waste. We build smart, but most importantly, we build a thriving community of people who care about the planet and every life form on it.

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The ocean covers two thirds of the planet. It is a vast resource that can help solve the complex challenges coastal cities face. We build for people who want to live sustainably across the nexus of energy, water, food, and waste.

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With designs from practices including Tatiana Bilbao and Serie Architects, the development embraces the use of CLT, terracotta, hemp and raw earth

Words by Sabrina Syed

Paris is gearing up to build its first 'zero-carbon' neighbourhood. Located at Porte de Montreuil, a district on Paris' eastern outskirts, the 35ha strip running alongside the Boulevard Périphérique ring-road is set to undergo an estimated 60,000 sq m of development.

The pilot project will test ecological building strategies at scale, formed as a collaboration between architectural design firms Serie Architects, Atelier Georges, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio and Bond Society which won the international Reinventing Cities competition with their joint proposal. Each will be designing prototypes of what will be eight new mixed-use buildings and a public square, with construction run by developers Nexity, Crédit Agricole Immobilier and Aire Nouvelle.

'Zero-carbon' here means that the carbon emitted from the construction of the neighbourhood development is equivalent to the carbon it will absorb or remove from the atmosphere, offsetting its creation (what developments in the UK would call 'net-zero'). Instead of lingering heavily on simply covering the buildings in greenery - which can dangerously veer into greenwashing territory (though it is still present) - there is a concerted focus towards using materials to achieve the net-zero goal.

100% of the facades - excluding glazing - will be composed of natural materials including terracotta bricks, hemp and raw earth which come from the local region of Île-de-France. 80% of the superstructures for all buildings are set to be built with cross-laminated timber (CLT) and stone of French origin rather than metal or concrete.

This follows a rising trend of mass timber as a building material, chosen for its carbon-sequestering benefits - cities in France already have numerous examples including Atelier Du Pont's Woody office building (2019) in Paris and Odile Guzy Architects' all-timber social housing scheme in Chalon-sur-Saône (2017). The use of structural timber at increasingly larger scales - including for the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics aquatics centre - reflects France's commitment that construction of all new public buildings by the state be composed of at least 50% timber or bio-based materials by 2022.

While common tropes of commercial sustainable development do persist in the new Porte Montreuil design, with so-called 'oases' using natural vegetation and 'water-based solutions' planned to cool the site, the 7000 sq m of new vegetation and bike paths will help pedestrianise its presence near the busy Boulevard Périphérique (though the City's efforts towards sustainability must surely address the carbon emissions of that road infrastructure longer term).

Committed to reducing 85% of total emissions through a range of approaches including setting up a carbon fund for the project, there is a consideration of the lifecycles of building post-construction with office spaces designed as modules so they can easily be converted to apartments, reducing the need for demolition. On-site geothermal and photovoltaic energy production will be implemented, which is planned to expand its resources to benefit the larger district.

Though the project's design can easily be dismissed as placeless - familiar to proposals for any satellite town of similar climates - perhaps it's in its replicability that the project is made persuasive to more clients. This is relevant in a landscape where pushing ecological construction materials is still in its relative infancy.

While nations convene in the coming months for COP26, it's important that the built manifestations of their aims come up and come up often. To truly measure the extent of carbon neutrality, having data shared transparently on building performance will tilt the favour towards celebrating promise rather than pretence. It takes a neighbourhood to measure - this one compels us to wait and see. Construction is forecasted to complete by 2026.
Sabrina Syed is an architectural designer and writer
Images courtesy of Atelier Georges, Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, Bond Society and Serie Architects

Tagged as climate emergency, CLT, France, Paris, Serie Architects, Sustainable architecture, Sustainable design, Tatiana Bilbao

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Paris plans first 'zero-carbon' neighbourhood - ICON Magazine

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Words by Sabrina Syed Paris is gearing up to build its first 'zero-carbon' neighbourhood. Located at Porte de Montreuil, a district on Paris' eastern outskirts, the 35ha strip running alongside the Boulevard Périphérique ring-road is set to undergo an estimated 60,000 sq m of development.

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Helsingin kaupungin järjestämä Verkkosaaren pohjoisosan Mitte-nimisen korttelin 10656 asuntotonttien 1 ja 2 laatukilpailu päättyi keväällä 2021.

- Idea energiatehokkuuteen liittyvästä tontinluovutuskilpailusta syntyi kaupungin ympäristöpalveluiden toimesta jo muutama vuosi sitten osana Fiksu Kalasatama -hanketta. Kilpailun kohteeksi valikoitui siten Verkkosaaren pohjoisosan Mitte-kortteli. Kilpailun teemaa laajennettiin käsittämään energiatehokkuuden lisäksi myös vähähiilisyys ja vehreys, kertoo Kalasataman projektinjohtaja Hannu Asikainen.

Kilpailun tavoitteena oli tuottaa arkkitehtonisesti korkeatasoinen viherkortteli, josta muodostuu kaupunkikuvallisesti omaleimainen ja toteutuskelpoinen asuin- ja liikerakentamisen kokonaisuus. Samalla kilpailussa etsittiin kilpailualueen asuinkerrostalotonteille toteuttajaa ja suunnittelijaa.

- Avoimeen laatukilpailuun toimitettiin määräaikaan mennessä 12 hyväksyttyä ja korkeatasoista ehdotusta, joten kilpailun voidaan todeta onnistuneen erinomaisesti ja edistävän Hiilineutraali Helsinki 2035 -tavoitteen saavuttamista, arvioi johtava kiinteistölakimies Martti Tallila.

- Tällä kilpailulla on suuri merkitys alalle. Korkealaatuiset ehdotukset osoittavat, että suomalainen rakennussektori on jo nyt kykenevä toteuttamaan vähähiilisiä ratkaisuja esteettisesti ja taloudellisesti kestävällä tavalla. Ehdotusten monet energiatehokkaat ja vähähiiliset ratkaisut ovat valmiita otettavaksi käyttöön heti mitä erilaisimmissa rakennushankkeissa, toteaa kilpailussa asiantuntijana toiminut tiimipäällikkö Jessica Karhu Rakennustiedosta.
Mitte-korttelista rakennetaan energiatehokas
Voittajaksi esitettävässä ehdotuksessa tontin 1 E-luku on 32 kWh E/m², a ja tontin 2 E-luku on 33 kWh E /m², a. Rakentamismääräykset täyttävän, yli kolmikerroksisen asuinkerrostalon E-luku saa olla suurimmillaan 90 kWh E/m², a. Verrattuna normaaliin rakentamiseen, voittajaehdokkaan E-luku on tästä vain noin kolmannes eli ehdotetut rakennukset ovat erittäin energiatehokkaita. Ehdotuksessa esitetyt energiasäästöratkaisut ovat yleisesti käytössä olevalla tekniikalla toteutettavissa.

Ehdotuksen E-luku alittaa myös vaaditun A-luokan raja-arvon 75 kWh E /m² kirkkaasti ja on toteutuessaan yksi harvoista Suomessa rakennetuista alle 40 kWh E /m² E-luvun omaavista asuinkerrostaloista. Onnistuminen tässä on monen tekijän summa - kohteessa on mietitty, miten energiaomavaraisuus olisi saavutettavissa sekä sovellettu ennakkoluulottomasti kaikkia hukkaenergian talteenottomahdollisuuksia.

Mitte-korttelin lämmöntuotanto tapahtuu lähes omavaraisesti lämpöpumppujärjestelmällä, johon liittyy noin 1,5 kilometriä syvä geoterminen kaivo. Geotermisen porakaivon lisäksi lämpöpumppujärjestelmä saa syötteensä muun muassa kiinteistössä syntyvästä hukkaenergiasta, ulkoilmasta sekä jätevedestä. Varastoitunutta energiaa voidaan hyödyntää myös naapurikortteleiden lämmitystarpeissa. Lämpöpumppujen tarvitsemaa sähköä tuotetaan korttelissa aurinkosähköjärjestelmällä.

- Ratkaisut ovat hyödynnettävissä myös muissa hankkeissa. Ennen hankkeeseen ryhtymistä geotermisten kaivojen suunnittelu vaatii toki maaperätutkimuksia. Yhteistyö Helenin kanssa geotermisen ylijäämälämmön saamiseksi kaupungin verkkoon on varmasti kaikkia hyödyttävä asia, pohtii Jessica Karhu.

Voittajaksi esitettävän kilpailuehdotuksen hiilijalanjälki 50 vuoden ajalle laskettuna on 423 kg CO2-ekv./m2. Ehdotuksen hiilijalanjälki on 25 % kilpailuehdotusten keskiarvoa pienempi ja ympäristöministeriön tänä vuonna valmistuneen Carbon Footprint Limits for Common Building Types -raportin mukaan materiaalipäästöt A1-A3 ovat keskiarvoa noin 20 % pienemmät.

- Ehdotuksessa on otettu huomioon kokonaisuus, vähennetty energian päästöjä, optimoitu materiaalien kulutusta ja valittu vähäpäästöisempiä materiaaleja, kertoo kilpailussa asiantuntijana toiminut Project Manager Sara Tikka One Click LCA:sta.

Rakennuksen osalta suurimmat päästöt tulevat rakennusmateriaalien valmistuksesta. Suunnitelmassa on kuitenkin käytetty teknologiaa, jonka ansiosta runkoon ja perustuksiin kuluu noin puolet vähemmän massaa, mikä vähentää betonin määrää ja näin ollen myös päästöjä huomattavasti. Kaikilta osin ehdotuksessa on pyritty optimoimaan niin materiaalien kulutusta, kuin näiden päästöjäkin. Käytön aikaisia päästöjä on pyritty pienentämään hyvällä energiatehokkuudella, maalämmöllä sekä aurinkopaneelien käytöllä.
Kortteliin lähes 200 asuntoa, puistomainen sisäpiha ja robottiparkki
Kilpailun arviointiryhmän mukaan "Grün in der Mitte" -ehdotuksen arkkitehtoniset elementit palvelevat tarkoitustaan ja ovat hyvin perusteltuja.

- Voittajaksi esitettävässä ehdotuksessa kilpailun tavoitteet on ymmärretty oivallisesti ja onnistuttu ottamaan ne erinomaisesti osaksi arkkitehtuuria ja suunnitteluratkaisuja. Kilpailuehdotuksessa ei ole mitään ylimääräistä tai karsittavissa olevaa ja työ muodostaa näin erinomaisen lähtökohdan jatkosuunnittelulle ja rakentamiselle, kuvaa arviointiryhmän puheenjohtaja, tiimipäällikkö ja arkkitehti Matti Kaijansinkko.

Ehdotuksen asuntoratkaisut ovat toimivia - korttelin runkorakenne mahdollistaa muuntojoustavuuden tarjoten sopivia asuntoja erilaisille elämäntilanteille. Läpitalon asuntoja on paljon ja ne ovat valoisia. Täydentävissä rakenteissa ja sisätilojen näkyvissä pinnoissa on käytetty runsaasti puuta.

Ehdotus pitää sisällään puistomaisen, maanvaraisen sisäpihan, jonka toteuttamisen mahdollistaa suunnitelmassa esitetty robottiparkki. Robottiparkissa automatisoitu pysäköintijärjestelmä hoitaa ajoneuvon pysäköinnin varsinaiselle pysäköintipaikalle, eikä kuljettajan tarvitse kuin ajaa auto sisäänkäynnin kohdalle. Suunnitelmassa on panostettu myös viherkertoimeen: luonnon monimuotoisuus, kierrätysmateriaalien käyttö sekä veden kierrätys on kattavasti huomioitu.

Korttelin kahdella tontilla on asuinrakennusoikeutta yhteensä 17 000 kerrosneliömetriä sekä liiketilaa yhteensä 500 kerrosneliömetriä. Tonteille rakennetaan lähes 200 asuntoa yli 300 asukkaalle. Ensimmäiselle tontille tulee sääntelemättömiä vapaarahoitteisia asuntoja niin, että toteutettavasta asuinrakennusoikeudesta enintään puolet saa olla vuokra-asuntoja. Lisäksi tontille tulee liiketilaa. Toiselle tontille rakennetaan hitas-omistusasuntoja.

Kaupunkiympäristölautakunnan ratkaistua kilpailun ja kaupunginvaltuuston hyväksyttyä tonttien myynti- ja vuokrausperiaatteet kaupunki allekirjoittaa voittajan kanssa toteuttamissopimuksen ja kiinteistökaupan esisopimuksen. Rakentaminen korttelissa alkaa vuonna 2023. Toteutussopimuksessa kaupunki edellyttää, että rakennukset valmistuvat viimeistään vuonna 2026.

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Helsingin kaupungin järjestämä Verkkosaaren pohjoisosan Mitte-nimisen korttelin 10656 asuntotonttien 1 ja 2 laatukilpailu päättyi keväällä 2021. - Idea energiatehokkuuteen liittyvästä tontinluovutuskilpailusta syntyi kaupungin ympäristöpalveluiden toimesta jo muutama vuosi sitten osana Fiksu Kalasatama -hanketta. Kilpailun kohteeksi valikoitui siten Verkkosaaren pohjoisosan Mitte-kortteli. Kilpailun teemaa laajennettiin käsittämään energiatehokkuuden lisäksi myös vähähiilisyys ja vehreys, kertoo Kalasataman projektinjohtaja Hannu Asikainen.

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'India is a fast developing country and that comes with all the benefits and problems. Nature can act as a great regulator for a fast growing community and creates a bufferzone to clean the air and provide a natural shade.'
Penda was commissioned to design a residential compound called 'Magic Breeze' for Pooja Crafted homes in Hyderabad / India. The 450.000squarefeet development is composed of 127 units, which are designed as duplex sky villas and range from 2.600 to 4.000 squarefeet. The units are divided by a double-height, private garden of 500 sqft. These green in-betweens give a great sense of openness and vitality to the compound that loosens up the density a tenant would experience in a common condominium building.

The private gardens are not just an organic division to their neighbouring units, but also provide a natural ventilation throughout the complex, which is a healthy alternative to common mechanical cooling. The natural air flow circulation prevents the building from overheating and saves more than 60% of energy, which results in a lower carbon footprint for the entire development.

We developed the project as a modular system, which gets prefabricated off sit. The balconies features different planters, whichcan be filled with different kinds and sizes of plants and serve as a natural border to the surrounding. This large area of urban gardening gives the tenants the opportunity to plant their own vegetables or herbs in their garden and gives the project a sense of a self-sustaining development.

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'India is a fast developing country and that comes with all the benefits and problems. Nature can act as a great regulator for a fast growing community and creates a bufferzone to clean the air and provide a natural shade.' Penda was commissioned to design a residential compound called 'Magic Breeze' for Pooja Crafted [...]

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BIG builds affordable floating village 'Urban Rigger' in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Located at Copenhagen's waterfront, a unit of the sustainable student housing hosts 12 apartments across two levels, created by stacking nine shipping containers in a circle.

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Gallery of Garden House Escandón / CPDA Arquitectos - 13

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Dense and low-rise

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Tanner Street Gateway
With Jestico+Whiles
"THE AWARD-WINNING TANNER STREET DEVELOPMENT IN BARKING, EAST LONDON, HERALDS THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME IN SOCIAL HOUSING."

YVETTE COOPER, THE GUARDIAN, 2006

Tanner Street Gateway is a dense, street-based urban quarter in Barking, East London. A ladder of intimately scaled streets replace three extant and problematic high rise blocks, previously dividing residential neighbourhoods from the town centre.

The new scheme re stitches the urban grain, and creates a delightful spatial link to the amenities and transport links of the town centre. At the heart of the 165 unit scheme is a delightful tree lined public square where a spectacular 10 storey landmark building, with a doctor's surgery at its base, marks the intersection of a number of important public routes. In all locations streets are heavily overlooked by residents. Balconies, terraces and numerous front doors create a sense of ownership and the opportunity for people to personalise the front of their properties.

The project received planning permission in July 2003 just 13 weeks after the design team was established.

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham were integral to the design process from the outset. The speed and efficiency of the process and the quality of the resulting scheme is a great example of a close working relationship between local authority, design team and East Thames Housing Association who were the developer and client.

Tanner Street Gateway achieved a phased completion between January 2006 and January 2007 -the for-sale units sold off-plan.

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Tanner Street Gateway - Peter Barber Architects

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With Jestico+Whiles Tanner Street Gateway is a dense, street-based urban quarter in Barking, East London. A ladder of intimately scaled streets replace three extant and problematic high rise blocks, previously dividing residential neighbourhoods from the town centre. The new scheme re stitches the urban grain, and creates a delightful spatial link to the amenities and transport links of the town centre.

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Veranda/extra space entrance + flexible apartments

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1. palkinnon voittanut ehdotus on suunnitelma tulevaisuuden perheasumisesta urbaanissa ympäristössä. Perheasumisen suunnittelu on pitkään lähtenyt ydinperhemallin tarpeisiin vastaamisesta. Perheen määritelmä kuitenkin laajenee ja perheiden tarpeet moninaistuvat. Perheasuminen kaupungissa myös kiinnostaa yhä useampia muuttuneiden arvojen myötä. Suunnitelmamme luo raamit yhteisölliselle ja asukkaiden elämäntilanteiden mukaan muuttuvalle perheasumisen korttelille, jossa kohtuuhintaisten ja kompaktien perheasuntojen lisäksi on runsaat ja kohdennetut yhteistilat asukkaiden käytössä.

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Housing renovation while allowing dwellers to keep living in. New facade and balconies (free extra space), new life to anonymous building.

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"Kestävä kerrostalo" by Avarrus - Massive brickwall structure and natural ventilation. See link at the bottom of the page  for more info (in Finnish).

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Avarrus Arkkitehdit kehittää Oulunkylään Käskynhaltijantien varrelle modernia kerrostaloa, jossa hyödynnetään vuosisatojen kuluessa kestäviksi todettuja teknisiä ratkaisuja. Tavoitteena on rakentaa sekä energiatehokas että kestävä, terveellinen ja viihtyisä kerrostalo.

Kestävä kerrostalo -hankkeessa käytetään valikoituja massiivirakentamisen ratkaisuja sekä luonnollisia, muovittomia rakennusmateriaaleja yhdessä uusimman tekniikan ja raikkaan modernin arkkitehtuurin kanssa. Teknisinä ja arkkitehtonisina ratkaisuina tutkitaan massiivitiilirungon sekä painovoimaisen ilmanvaihdon mahdollisuuksia uudisasuntorakentamisessa.
Hankkeen esikuvia ovat kahden kiven massiivimuuratut tiilirakennukset. Tällä tekniikalla rakennetut talot, kuten töölöläiset 1930-luvun tiilitalot kuluttavat tutkitusti vähän energiaa. Massiivikivirakentaminen on kosteusteknisesti varma ratkaisu, joka mahdollistaa rakennukselle myös omaleimaisen ja kestävän luonteen.

Hankkeesta julkaistaan sen valmistuttua havainnolliset tutkielmat, joissa arvioidaan tehtyjen teknisten ratkaisujen toimivuutta rakentajan, suunnittelijan ja asukkaan kannalta sekä vaikutuksia asumisen terveellisyyteen ja asumisviihtyvyyteen.
Massiivitiilitalo on jatkoa Avarruksen aiemmin suunnittelemille massiivipuisille pientaloille, joissa on käytetty painovoimaista ilmanvaihtoa, kuten As. Oy Helsingin Konstaapeli Spaak.

Esitys hankkeesta Kehittyvä kerrostalo -seminaarissa 2019 PDF

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Avarrus Arkkitehdit kehittää Oulunkylään Käskynhaltijantien varrelle modernia kerrostaloa, jossa hyödynnetään vuosisatojen kuluessa kestäviksi todettuja teknisiä ratkaisuja. Tavoitteena on rakentaa sekä energiatehokas että kestävä, terveellinen ja viihtyisä kerrostalo. Kestävä kerrostalo -hankkeessa käytetään valikoituja massiivirakentamisen ratkaisuja sekä luonnollisia, muovittomia rakennusmateriaaleja yhdessä uusimman tekniikan ja raikkaan modernin arkkitehtuurin kanssa.

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Hirsikerrostalo - Log house 2.0 = multistorey housing with log bearing structure

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Keksimme kerrostalon uudelleen.

1. Kontiopro

2. Hirsikerrostalo - Kontio Block

Kontio Block -hirsikerrostalo yhdistää vuosikymmenien kokemuksen näkemykseemme tulevaisuuden rakentamisesta ja ekologisesta puukerrostalosta. Hirsikerrostalojen rakentaminen on helpompaa, kannattavampaa ja laadukkaampaa kuin koskaan. Tervetuloa kerrostalorakentamisen uuteen aikaan kanssamme.

Mikä on Kontio Block?

Kontio Block on rakentamisen ammattilaisille kehitetty rakennekokoelma ja tietopaketti hirsikerrostalosta. Kehitimme tämän pohjalta myös kerrostalokonseptin jolla tutkimme miltä hirsikerrostalo voisi näyttää.

Design tiimimme hyödynsi konseptiin parhaat palat suunnitteluosaamisestamme; huippuun viedyt tilaratkaisut, hirren hyödyntämisen parhaalla mahdollisella tavalla niin rakenteellisesti kuin visuaalisesti sekä sisustuksen ja yksityiskohdat. KontioBlock mahdollistaa pientaloistamme tuttuja yksityiskohtia kuten leijuvan katon ja vinon sisäkaton. Konseptikuvissa on mukana myös Kontio Living -keittiöt sekä värimaailma-ajattelu.

Miksi Kontio Block?

Kontio Block -hirsikerrostalot vastaavat uudenlaisen asumisen sekä rakentamisen kasvavaan kysyntään. Yhä useammat kaupungit, kunnat ja kokonaiset maakunnat ovat sitoutuneita toteuttamaan vetovoimaista, hiilineutraaliutta tukevaa, kestävää rakentamista. Kontion puurakentaminen on ekologista ja elinkaarivaatimukset huomioivaa.

Terveellinen, ekologinen ja kestävä asuminen puurakenteisessa talossa ei enää ole vain omakotitaloasujan oikeus. Nyt ovi terveelliseen ja ekologiseen kotiin aukeaa yhä useammalle. Teemme hirsikerrostalojen suunnittelun ja rakentamisen helpoksi ja kannattavaksi sekä asumisen yksilölliseksi ja kestäväksi.

Kiinnostuitko Kontio Blockin mahdollisuuksista? Ota meihin yhteyttä, niin kerromme lisää! Ota yhteyttä

Malli tallennettu suosikkeihin

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Keksimme kerrostalon uudelleen. Kontiopro Hirsikerrostalo - Kontio Block Kontio Block -hirsikerrostalo yhdistää vuosikymmenien kokemuksen näkemykseemme tulevaisuuden rakentamisesta ja ekologisesta puukerrostalosta. Hirsikerrostalojen rakentaminen on helpompaa, kannattavampaa ja laadukkaampaa kuin koskaan. Tervetuloa kerrostalorakentamisen uuteen aikaan kanssamme. Kontio Block on rakentamisen ammattilaisille kehitetty rakennekokoelma ja tietopaketti hirsikerrostalosta. Kehitimme tämän pohjalta myös kerrostalokonseptin jolla tutkimme miltä hirsikerrostalo voisi näyttää.

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Where urban meet rural. Wooden housing in the countryside just out of Copenhagen

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Just beyond the Copenhagen city center, Vejlands Kvarteret transforms the former junkyard site into a model for sustainable living, balancing human priorities with a strong commitment to the natural surroundings. Fælledby explores a living model with nature at its core, simultaneously crafting a new neighborhood to accommodate the demands of the growing city and increasing local biodiversity. The neighborhood merges traditional Danish urban and rural typologies to create a hybrid that balances the city and its natural surroundings. Fælledby will develop in phases, growing outward from three distinct "cores" that together frame the neighborhood at large. This diffuse approach will maximize access to nature for residents and will allow the landscape to be organically integrated in the site.

A World Changing Idea

Fælledby was chosen is the winner in the Urban Design category of Fast Company's 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards.

Building with Wood

The Vejlands community will be entirely timber construction, with individual buildings featuring birdhouses and animal habitats integrated within the building facades.

Compared to alternative materials such as steel or concrete, timber captures and stores CO2 during its growth - as a building material, it active removes CO2 from the environment as it is produced. Fælledby is the latest in a resurgence of timber construction throughout Scandinavia, as the region sets a global example for sustainable contemporary architecture.

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Just beyond the Copenhagen city center, Vejlands Kvarteret transforms the former junkyard site into a model for sustainable living, balancing human priorities with a strong commitment to the natural surroundings. Fælledby explores a living model with nature at its core, simultaneously crafting a new neighborhood to accommodate the demands of the growing city and increasing local biodiversity.