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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.
29.10 2009 was published by the Copenhagen Municipality Center for Bydesign that the task of making plan for the area Sundholm South, has been awarded Bertelsen & Scheving Architects. The studio has prepared the proposal with extract, Breimann & Bruun, Buro Happold and Hans E. Madsen. The decision was taken on the basis of proposals from three different architectural firms, as well Bertelsen & Scheving Architects is the design studio Vandkunsten and Tanja Jordan Architects. Read more
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AROS Museum for Modern Art, Aarhus; Client: Aarhus Municipality; Project Stage: 2. prize in competition 1996; Architects: Jens Bertelsen, Bertelsen & Scheving, artist Per Kirkeby; Engineers: Søren and Keld Abrahamsen; Acustics Anders C. Gade; Sqm / construction sum: 15,000 sqm / 400 mill dkk
On October 29th 2010 Copenhagen Council’s centre for City design published the winner of the district plan for Sundholm Syd, Bertelsen & Scheving Architects. The practice worked together with Ekstrakt, Breimann & Bruun, Buro Happold og Hans E. Madsen on the project. The decision was made based on proposals from three different practices, Bertelsen & Scheving and the practices Vandkunsten and Tanja Jordan Architects.
About the challenges posed by this district plan one can read in the committee’s statement: The starting point has been to balance this dual situation: How can future residents get a vision for this area of the city and how can the city and the life in the area as such create synergies and add an attraction to the neighbourhood at the same time as it is allowed to develop into something special?
Bertelsen & Scheving’s is the only one of the three projects, which takes as its starting point a visible synergy between the vision for the area of being different, creating diversity and at the same time being open towards both residents and the neighbourhood in general to take part in this diversity.
Differences and identity are the bases for a future proofing of the area, which must, in functionality, socially and urban fit in, but at the same time be adaptable and open so as to invite everybody in who may wish to contribute.
About our proposal, specifically the social kit and leading architectural motive in the proposal, the committee writes: Especially the pixel gardens should be pointed out, as they are well defined and based on the active participation of the residents. Both idea and strategy seem attractive and robust.
