Resource Rows
Exploring brick circularity
Resource Rows takes a holistic approach to sustainability and demonstrates a shift in the construction industry’s material agenda, making it the world’s first residential project built from materials reclaimed from demolished buildings.
Analyses and collaborations across industries have identified opportunities to transform waste streams into valuable building materials, helping reduce the environmental impact of construction.
Resource efficiency and creative answers to material constraints has been the catalyst for the design of the architecture, and several new material innovations were developed.
Most prominently, old facades from cement-mortar brick facades have been cut out and reassembled into new facade modules, and allotment garden houses built from waste materials placed on the roofs.
Waste wood from the metro construction is used on the façade and offcuts and faulty production from floor production that would otherwise have to be incinerated have become new floors.
‘The Resource Rows give us a glimpse into what the construction of the future looks like. Sustainable construction is the way forward, and fortunately we are continually becoming wiser about how we can work purposefully with sustainability and test new ways of doing things.’
Anne Skovbro
CEO, By & Havn
The houses have ample opportunities to meet the neighbours. This is seen on the roof of the Resource Rows’ that has been landscaped as allotment gardens with garden sheds of recycled materials with both private and common spaces and a repurposed bridge that spans the courtyard – all within a comparable economic frame to similar projects in the area.
Impacts
- Saving 463 tonnes of waste.
- Upcycle percentage of 29%.
- Energy solar panels and water-to-air heat pumps (row houses)
- Covered internationally in Arch Daily, Dezeen, Detail, Bau, Architects Journal, Arkitekten, Politiken, Berlingske, Børsen, TV2, DR, RAI, ZDF and more.
- Engaging the tenants through active and social life at the outdoor green roof tops and gardening.
