Upcycled glass facade
7 tonnes of saved thermal windows ‘harvested’ in Northern Jutland, as a consequence of a restoration project.
Upcycle Studios
Upcycle Studios
- 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
Description
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.
Products
In situ upcycled concrete
Hundreds of tonnes of concrete was poured for this project with 45% of it being aggregate from the construction of the Copenhagen Metro.
Dinesen exterior cladding
Discarded douglas fir from Dinesen’s floor production. Painted black. Using wood as a facade cladding is a more sustainable alternative to eg. brickwork.
Dinesen discarded flooring
and wall paneling
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.
