Postgaardsgrunden

Postgaardsgrunden: robust housing in the danish welfare landscape

This project searches for a solution on the plot of Skovriddergaardsvej nr. 60, in the context of Greater Copenhagen Five Finger Plan city (garden city principle), with a focus on economic social housing. The tool of understanding Virums context is the pragmatism of the Danish architectural vision of ¨den funktionelle tradition¨ from the start and middle of the 19th century. 

The buildings for housing are shaped in three tall bodies. The buildings have a robust concrete base and a wood cladded CLT timber construction from second floor and four stories up. The materials used are in reference to the surrounding buildings, which are comprised of a concrete base and yellow brick. The project offers three different types of apartments as well as car parking.