Lisbjerg
Building communities
Made in Aarhus is a landscape first community where 215 timber homes settle gently into the softly undulating terrain of Lisbjerg, establishing a new benchmark for affordable, low carbon housing.
To ensure the lowest possible CO₂ emissions, the buildings’ load bearing structures are made of wood elements, and the facade cladding consists of reusable and upcycled materials such as brick, slate, painted metal sheets, and wooden cassettes. In doing so, the project signals a shift toward circular construction at scale.
‘Our great ambitions within sustainability and for the development of Lisbjerg are expressed in Made in Aarhus.’
Sofie Balslev-Olesen
NREP Sales & Leasing Manager, in Lokalavisen Aarhus
The sustainable principles are also reflected in the landscape, which has been designed to reduce the need for moving earth off the plot. Here, the materials consist of stones from the ground, while sorted construction waste is used for gabions for retaining walls in the hilly terrain. The urban layout has been developed with emphasis on creating a well-functioning local community. Thus, the homes are organized in clusters consisting of two opposite L-shapes, which creates an open, defined common space between the buildings where the locals can meet and interact with each other.
The homes have varying degrees of privacy and offer different types of housing and outdoor spaces, depending on their location in the landscape. The hilly terrain creates a varied building-scape with different views in all directions. Nature’s cycles become part of the resident’s daily lives, expressed through the choice and placement of landscape elements, trees and vegetation in relation to the buildings
