The Swan/
Lendager
Project Details
Location(City/Country):
Gladsaxe / Denmark
Tipology:
Educational
Year (Design/Construction):
2019 / 2022
Area (Net/Gross):
1436 m2 / 3500 m2
Operational Carbon emissions (B6) kgCO2e/m2/y:
-
Embodied Carbon emissions (A1-A3) kgCO2e/m2:
-- The kindergarten is constructed using reconfigured and upcycled materials from the decommissioned local school. This innovative approach promotes the recycling of existing building materials, contributing to the circular economy in construction.
- The project involved a sustainable demolition process that has been praised by the Danish Association of Construction Clients (DACC). This process is considered a pioneering example of promoting material circulation in the construction industry.
- By reusing old materials such as wooden rafters, steel facade elements, roof tiles, and even the old school clock, the design not only respects sustainability but also preserves the cultural and historical value of the original school building.
The kindergarten Svanen (The Swan) will be built where a decommissioned local school of is torn down and will be built out of reconfigured and upcycled materials from the school. The project will obtain the Scandinavian sustainability certification ”Nordic Swan Ecolabel” and it complies to the new Voluntary Danish Sustainable Building class, which includes LCA, focus on building site resources, documentation of problematic substances etc.
A PIONEERING PROJECT FOR MATERIAL CIRCULATION
After a preliminary feasibility study regarding the potentials for rebuilding and repurposing of the existing structures into a new kindergarten, it was decided that the best option was to deconstruct and reconfigure into a new structure. This complex process-based approach coupled with project-specific risk- and potential assessment was led by Lendager and realized in close cooperation with a range of stakeholders, including an ambitious client organization. The result of this was a tender for a sustainable demolition process, which later has been praised by the Danish Association of Construction Clients (DACC) for being a prime example of a concrete pathway to promoting circularity in the built environment.
The results of this specialized consulting process was coupled to the architectural development of the new building and enabled the architecture to adhere to principles of form-follows-availability, capitalizing the inherent value in what otherwise was waste. This has resulted in a building that creates architectural value as well as a new aesthetic that
respects and recognizes the inherent material and cultural value in the reconfiguration of our collective built surroundings. Old wooden rafters from the sports hall, steel facade elements from the 1960s, roof tiles from the roofs as and the old school clock – and several other elements have been reimplemented into the new design. This does not only make sense in terms of sustainability but also represents a respectful gesture to the quality of Gladsaxe Old School, which now gets an afterlife in a reinterpretation.
- Collaborators: Lendager (total consultant with design management, client consultant in relation to circularity), Niras (engineer)
- Team: Nikolaj Callisen Friis (projec manager), Tim Riis Tolman (circulation consultant)
- Client: Gladsaxe Municipality
- Photographer: Rasmus Hjortshøj
