Havnegade Housing
- Location
- Nordhavn, Copenhagen
- Status
- Completed, 2024
- Type
- Housing
- Gross area
- 9,400 m²
- Client
- AKB København
- Structure
- CLT on concrete podium
Fig. 01 — Massing and sun study
The project
84 social homes around a courtyard that gets four hours of June sun, because the south block steps down to let it in.
The site is a former container yard on the edge of Nordhavn. The local plan allowed seven storeys on all four sides. We kept the height on the north, where it shades only a road, and brought the south block down to three and four storeys so the courtyard gets sun.
Every flat is dual-aspect: living rooms face the street, bedrooms face the courtyard. Access decks on the courtyard side replace corridors, which saved 640 m² of heated area and gives every front door a place to leave a bike and a chair.
The upper floors are cross-laminated timber on a concrete ground floor. Exposed timber ceilings inside, larch cladding outside, untreated, left to go silver.
Fig. 02 — Typical floor, north block
Scale 1:200 (not to scale on screen)
Material palette
Siberian larch, untreated
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Lime render
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Galvanised steel decks
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Recycled brick podium
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