The Agenda 21 committee in Koege Municipality and "The Green House" is of the opinion that an up-to-date development of the Danish detached houses, which are energy- and eco-friendly is needed. The work surrounding the development of energy and environmentally efficient single-family house have in the last decades been managed by grassroots movements, while the bigger companies have focused on the larger constructions. The interest for living in an healthy environment as well as energy and environmental efficiency have grown increasingly in the last couple of years, and the demand for an effort that is in coherence with ongoing professional development of industrialised constructions in the field of detached houses is needed.

The Agenda 21 committee in Koege Municipality and the "Green House" in Køge is behind the ambitious and ground-breaking demonstrational buidling project. The project aims to make energy- and eco-friendly detached houses obtainable to the common dane and to improve the capabilities of the danish construction industry. The Detached Housies of the Future project will, through a life size exhibition, with around 64 different detached houses toghether with 12 terraced houses demonstrate, that it is possible to build and live in energy- and environmentally efficient in detached houses near the city - without having to be a self-builder and without reducing the comforts and the constructional qualities of the traditional housing. The companies where allowed to buy several plots - but they where only allowed to build the same house once. The exhibition thus offers many suggestions, of what an eco-friendly low energy house looks like.

All parts of the building project Detached Houses of the Future, are developed in dialogue with focus on interdisciplinary learning. Thus experiences from the construction industry, scientist, city planners, the municipality and counselors are utilised to secure the best result.

The permanent resulst after the exhibition are:

The project is primarily beneficial for the environment and the future residents of the detached houses.

The originator of the building project is the Agenda 21 committee in Koege Municipality and The Green House. The project is developed in cooperation with architect Rie Oehlenschlæger, AplusB, civil engineer and senior researcher Klaus Hansen, Danish Building Research Institute (SBI), project coordinator Karen Dahl Jensen, Ecolabelling Denmark, Koege Municipality and The Green House in Koege.

The project is financially supported by the Realdania Foundation, the Nykredit Foundation and Energy Service Denmark.

The Green House
Denmark
Ole Alm, tel. 0045 28 79 20 36

25/02/2008

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Urban Policy > Urban environment

Environmental sustainability