Havrevangen

  • Client

    Frederiksborg Boligselskab ved KAB

  • Collaborators

    Cenergia ApS, Dominia A/S, Jeppe Aagaard Andersen

  • Location

    Havrevangen 1, DK-3400 Hillerød

  • Area

    4,400m2

  • Status

    Completed in 1994

  • Competition

    1st Prize

Housing

Havrevangen

The 50 social housing units are an independent part of a partially completed, larger development located in a hilly terrain in Ullerød near Hillerød. The winning project from an ideas competition in 1991, organised by the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Danish Energy Agency, among others, forms the basis for the finished building, although financial constraints have led to many changes along the way.

For reasons including construction economics, the competition project's main idea, a heat-accumulating centre partition room, was replaced by a familiar underfloor heating system supplemented with low-temperature radiators. The clearly defined division of the terraced houses into a warm and cold zone and the access idea with a porch and entrance hall were thus deviated from.

In accordance with municipal urban planning requirements, the original Glen Murcutt-inspired curved aluminium roof was replaced by a saddle roof construction with a large overhang and profiled anthracite grey steel sheets. This incorporates the building's most striking energy technology and architectural feature, the large air-based solar collector strips. Through EU subsidies etc., highly insulated, low mission windows and heat recovery of ventilation air have also been used, allowing the total heat consumption to be kept at half the normal level.

The homes are built as trials of well-known, so-called green and low-maintenance materials, the most striking of which is the façade cladding of fire-impregnated cedar on clinkers. The reddish American wood will patinate over time.

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