FROM INDUSTRIAL AREA TO HIGH-END HOUSING
SKIBBROEN
Location: Havneholmen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Architects: Holscher Nordberg Architecture and Planning A/S
Date of construction: 2016
Info: A former industrial area in central Copenhagen has been transformed into a recreational, residential area with high-end buildings by the harbour front. The sustainable apartment building Skibbroen is one of the main characters in this new neighbourhood with its beautiful façades of water struck bricks masoned in a mix designed by the architect specifically to Skibbroen.
The building complies with Energy Class 2015, but the ventilation systems also comply with the requirements for energy consumption in energy class 2020.
The Ceramic brickwork façade has a very long technical lifetime (> 150 years). It is free from maintenance without a need to renovate over this long period. After end of life of the building deconstruction would be necessary, the facing bricks can either be cleaned and used again or crushed and used for landfill purposes. No environmental harmful substances would be set free, neither to groundwater nor to air.
