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Knuthenborg Estate Renovation of the park: “The romantic garden” by Edv. Milner 1870; Client: Heritage Trust Realdania and Knuthenborg Estate; Project Stage: 2006-2009; Construction sum: 6 mill dkk; Architects: Bertelsen & Scheving; Breimann & Bruun Garten-u. Landschaftsarchitekten MAA, Hamburg Read more

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The project is part of a community lift programme for the Sundholm area in Copenhagen. The assignment was to build sustainable housing in a cityscape. The area will have pixel-sized gardens and dwellings in varying heights with roof terraces. In the small pixel gardens each inhabitant can grow own vegetables or flowers, bushes and trees.

The first bit that will be built is a special council housing project. The basis for a sustainable social environment in such a community is to have offers that are attractive to the users, for instance, the ground floors can be made into workshops, shops and other functions, which will create life in the Garden City, explains partner and architect Jens Bertelsen.

With a small corner of the future’s sustainable architectural landscape, Copenhagen is once again on the map as an important metropolis with the sustainable neighbourhood Pixel Garden City.

The heart in the project is how to create an active social life for the residents through the pixel gardens and other meeting places. “We’ve never before made this many pixel-sized gardens, meeting places and houses that all signal “Welcome to our neighbourhood””, elaborates Jens Bertelsen.

The Bertelsen & Scheving practice won the assignment at a competition, organised by the Copenhagen council.