Project title
Upcycle Studios
Year finished
2019
Location
Ørestaden, Copenhagen
Customer
AG Gruppen
Building Owner
NREP, AG Gruppen
Architect
Lendager Group
Consulting engineer
MOE A/S
Contractor
AG Gruppen
Type of contract
Turnkey
Upcycle Studios is the world's first commercially scaled, circular housing project and consists of 20 terraced houses, located in Ørestaden, Copenhagen. In Upcycle Studios, 75% of the windows came from public housing in North Jutland, 1000 tonnes of the concrete used is cast with aggregate, from the Copenhagen Metro's concrete waste. Floors, walls and facades are made of upcycled discarded wood and offcuts from Dinesen's floor production.
914,000
Estimated kilos of total waste saved
53,182
Estimated kilos CO2e savings
7 tonnes of saved thermal windows ‘harvested’ in Northern Jutland, as a consequence of a restoration project.
Hundreds of tonnes of concrete was poured for this project with 45% of it being aggregate from the construction of the Copenhagen Metro.
Discarded douglas fir from Dinesen’s floor production. Painted black. Using wood as a facade cladding is a more sustainable alternative to eg. brickwork.
Discarded douglas fir from Dinesen, with large quantities infected with blue stain. However, this is treated as a feature rather than a defect, as it has no impact on the technical qualities of the wood.
