Circle House is one of Denmark’s most ambitious and visionary circular projects. The project is Denmark’s first social housing units built according to circular principles.
With Lejerbo as the client, the Circle House project is constructing the first social housing units built according to circular principles. This means, among other things, that the building has a higher degree of flexibility during its lifetime and that 90% of its materials can be disassembled and reused at a high value.
The building is designed by a collaboration studio comprising 3XN/GXN, Lendager and Vandkunsten Architects. The project consists of 60 social housing units in Lisbjerg north of the city of Aarhus. In addition to serving as housing, Circle House is a scalable demonstration project that creates and spreads new knowledge about circular construction across the industry and silos. Therefore, the project brings together over 60 different companies across the entire value chain.
In September 2018, the project inaugurated a demonstration unit that shows the building system in 1:1 as a proof of concept and an exhibition of circular building materials. The project has been tendered out on market terms and the finalization of the project has been won by a team of local companies: Torntoft & Mortensen (contractor), Rum (architects), Sweco (engineers). In the autumn/winter of 2021, the team will start construction of the buildings and the project will be finished for inauguration in 2023.
3XN Architects
GXN Innovation
Lendager
Vandkunsten Architects
Lejerbo (Client)
Responsible Assets
MT Højgaard
Danish Building Research Institute (SBi)
Supported by
Realdania
Danish Environmental Protection Agency’s Development and Demonstration
Pool (MUDP)
Photo credit: GXN & Tom Jerso
The Circle House project consists of 60 public housing units in Lisbjerg outside Aarhus, which are expected to be completed in 2023. The project focuses on the challenges within building circularly, and how to renew traditional business models and ensure that legislation supports recycling if circular construction. Therefore, the Circle House project analyzes value chains, business models, business cases and framework conditions. All results and realizations are shared through a broad discussion about circular construction throughout the industry.
The building is sketched by the a Collaboration Studio between 3XN/GXN, Lendager Group and Vandkunsten Architects. The project is supported by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Technology Development and Demonstration Program (MUDP) and Realdania’s Innovation Program in Construction.