Stubberupgaard Supportive Housing / Leth & Gori

Stubberupgaard Supportive Housing / Leth & Gori

Textual content description supplied by the architects. The Supportive Housing undertaking Stubberupgaard by LETH & GORI concerned the transformation, renovation, and new building of a complete of 44 sheltered flats for residents affected by psychological sickness set inside landscaped courtyards and gardens. The undertaking’s important focus is to reinterpret the historic tight grouping of stables, cowsheds, coaches, and visitor homes into a brand new grasp plan that reinforces the spatial connections between the surviving buildings, courtyards, and gardens, in addition to the brand new housing.

The structure of the brand new additions is predicated on the cautious registration and holistic transformation of the prevailing buildings’ traits and typology, with the goal of including new layers to the farmhouse advanced. “We needed to create a ‘group’ of buildings and generate a considerate and cautious house with the residents in thoughts,“ say architects Karsten Gori and Uffe Leth. Carefulness The brand new group of the buildings and their features helps neighborly interactions on a spread of scales and a sense of group inside the housing advanced.

Shared amenities embody a typical kitchen and eating space, a café run by the residents, a health room, and workshop areas. By reworking the housing from the within out, the undertaking acknowledges the potential of “homeliness” as a central worth in supporting the residents’ wants. With the residents in thoughts, LETH & GORI have created an area that focuses on the usage of daylight, heat, genuine supplies, and cautious detailing as a manner of embracing future residents.

The undertaking has a big concentrate on sustainable options and unites elegant sturdy supplies based mostly on an interpretation of the historic farmhouse. The Stubberupgård advanced now seems as a harmonious entity, the place the totally different typologies, gardens, and areas create new social assembly spots each inside and outside.

The quantity of daylight was a key phrase within the architectural undertaking and the totally different buildings all supply totally different sorts of home windows, daylight, and synthetic lighting which help the totally different shapes and features of the buildings. All with the aim of making a therapeutic architectural framework that gives attentive areas for weak residents.

The undertaking was carried out as a part of a strategic partnership settlement between Copenhagen Municipality / ByK and DSP PLUS that consists of lead contractor Jakon A/S, LETH & GORI A/S, Rørbæk og Møller Architects, EKJ Consulting Engineers AS, and Schul Panorama Architects. The strategic partnership is predicated on a brand new collaborative mannequin the place Jakon A/S helps the method because the lead contractor all through all of the design levels.