Location: Banegaarden, Otto Busses Vej 45
Period: June onwards
The Greenhouse is a space inviting entrepreneurs, visitors and the local community to reconnect with nature and learn the importance of nurturing ecosystems for current and future generations. The pavilion is a lighthouse project, highlighting the need and potential of green, educational and regenerative spaces in the hearts of our cities and a clubhouse-space to meet and explore regenerative futures for our cities in the face of the climate crisis.
ARCHITECTS:
FORMA
PARTNERS:
Sara Martinsen
Banegaarden
re:arc institute
SEE MORE:
https://www.forma-studio.dk/vaeksthuset
The new event- and educational space is built around the transformation of the 100-year-old propagation greenhouses from the Copenhagen Botanical Gardens. The greenhouses were rescued on the brink of demolition and transported to the new location at Jernbanebyen.
The pavilion is meant to include vital learning spaces for children and adults, inspiring and passing down climate focused knowledge of reductional, regenerative and resilient practices.
The greenhouses aspire to become a desired location for sustainability events and initiatives, helping people and organizations to learn and grow sustainably, together.
The partnership consist of four different partners from completely different fields, working from the same ethos and mission driven values: to help create a more sustainable future.
All four work around the idea that the architecture and materials of the future are already here – they are just disguised as different buildings or stored in another configuration. In short – the buildings of the future will be built from existing buildings and material recovered from other projects.
“We need to design and build so the projects of today can transform and adapt over time, long after we are gone. Just like we are doing now. To realize a project like Væksthuset, requires us to understand traditional craftmanship, materials and vernacular.
Therefore, a large part of our pavilion starts from the repurposing of another discarded building and the design challenges this creates, to reconfigure this into new purpose and program and to recontextualize this for a new context.”
Mikkel Bøgh
Arkitekt MAA
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