REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURE KASPER GULDAGER JENSEN Architect MAA, Director of GXN and Partner in 3XN, Visiting Professor, Aarhus School of Architecture
ARKITEKTSKOLEN AARHUS
SUSTAINABILITY
REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURE KASPER GULDAGER JENSEN Architect MAA, Director of GXN and Partner in 3XN, Visiting Professor, Aarhus School of Architecture
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Organic vegetables is grown inside Green School Stockholm atriums.
SUSTAINABILITY
ARKITEKTSKOLEN AARHUS
GXN collaborated with Aarhus School of Architecture in creating the studio ‘Regenerative Architecture’. A master program that investigates new forms of symbiosis between the built environment and natural systems.
Regenerative Architecture is a mindset
from the renowned ‘Katrine og Alfred’
es electricity from the kitchens leftover
for all of our work, where we are par-
greenery in Odense be used to make
biomass. Traditional ‘waste to energy’
ticularly sensitive to building design
a sustainable alternative to plywood.
technologies produce greenhouse
as it affects people, nature and socie-
Today they actually have a disposal
gases, however the pyrolysis plant
ty. This approach results in a positive
fee of 500dkk for each tons dry bio-
byproduct is biochar, a carbon rich
impact on the local social, ecological
mass, so upcycling also can not only
compound that will be used as soil
and economic spheres. With Regen-
result in healthy building materials
fertilizer in the surrounding landscape.
erative Architecture, we turn negative
but also form positive business cases.
aspects of a building into positive
The Biological House will be built
Green Solution House opens in Rønne
results: creating buildings that pro-
in Middelfart early 2016 with digital
spring 2015 and is a half renovation
duce more green energy than they
parametric manufacturing and repre-
and half new build. All revenue from
consume; specifying materials that are
sent a price compatible alternative to
the business will be ongoing be in-
or can be recycled; developing solu-
traditional Danish Housing.
vested into new green solutions.
tions that support nature and enhance biodiversity. Regenerative architecture is not just responsible and healthy; it
Green Solution House
is also economical and circular.
This hotel and conference center is located on Danish island of Bornholm and has an ambitious goal: to elimi-
The Biological House
nate the concept of waste. Inspired by
GXN takes part in designing and de-
Cradle to Cradle all materials used in
veloping Denmark’s first house built
the fan shaped building are described
from upcycled agricultural waste.
into either biological or technical
Through dialogue with the industry
circles, and hence biodegradable or
many resource streams can be up-
recyclable. The building also has an
cycled, ex. can tomato stem fibers
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SUSTAINABILITY
‘REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURE OPTIMIZES GOOD, NOT JUST MINIMIZES BAD; IT CREATES A POSITIVE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT’ KASPER GULDAGER JENSEN Visiting Professor, Aarhus School of Architecture
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ARKITEKTSKOLEN AARHUS
Green School Stockholm
The school emphasizes local food pro-
Inside the public area of the building
In short the project aims to be a
duction techniques; showcasing an ar-
is an organic food store, where the
manmade ecosystem of urban farm-
ray of innovative green solutions such
organically grown vegetables from
ing producing food for the entire
as hanging gardens, vertical farming,
the greenhouse are sold. The Green
neighborhood. The building supports
living walls and algae facades.
School’s kindergarten is located di-
regenerative thinking seeing carbon
rectly adjacent to a birch grove. Here,
dioxide as a resource for growth, cre-
Wide atriums open up the green
ating a green, learningful and healthy
school to accommodate spontane-
the children get their own safe oasis.
indoor climate; a building where
ous learning. This green pathway
Green terraces outside the building
social interaction and synergy across
through the school culminates with a
allow pedestrians to ascend the build-
generations takes place. Green School
large greenhouse as the focal point.
ing and move from the lower north-
Stockholm is a new school concept
The greenhouse encompasses three
ern side of the site up and across the
with a modern approach to sustaina-
enclosed levels for maximum produc-
street to the higher southern side. The
ble living. By actively educating about
tive growing and extends upwards
building thus becomes a productive
locally grown food, and by creating
with hanging gardens and vertical
extension of the planned green corri-
a multitude of green exterior public
farming alongside the student and
dor for the area as well as an avenue
spaces, the building encompasses a
senior residences.
for the public.
Stems from tomato plant
Board made from tomato stems
full lifetime of sustainable living: from kindergarten to high school, college dorms to senior apartments.
Example of Upcycling
Visit at tomato greenery
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