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Med denne hilsen ønsker jeg jer alle tak for et spændende år 2009.

Senest har jeg medvirket som fagdommer i to konkurrencer; Idræts- og kulturcenter i Grindsted og det nye Sundhedscenter for kræftramte i København. Det har været spændende processer og jeg har høstet nye erfaringer omkring de arkitektoniske rammer for kropskultur og sundhed, der også de kommende år vil være i fokus når man taler bæredygtige løsninger

I november blev vores forslag til Statens Naturhistoriske Museum præmieret med et indkøb for vores vilje til at diskutere programmets forudsætninger, omkring museets rette placering, organisation og bæredygtighed. Vi håber at idéerne kan være med til at skabe det rigtige grundlag for den kommende projektkonkurrence.

På Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole har vi åbnet en udstilling i forbindelse med COP 15 hvor jeg sammen med den schweiziske arkitekt Phillippe Rahm og afdeling 10’s elever har lavet en bog som undersøger nye kvaliteter ved at arbejde med klima og arkitektur.

1. december udkom Lokale og Anlægsfondens bog “Energiske faciliteter – bæredygtig idrætsarkitektur”, hvor vores projekt til Kulmøllen i Albertslund viser integreret energidesign anvendt i forbindelse med nye kultur- og idrætfaciliteter i gamle industribygninger.

Igen i år har vi valgt at indbetale et beløb til “Læger uden grænser”
Tak for i år, glædelig jul og godt nytår 2010

ENGLISH VERSION :

Thank you for another exiting year 2009

The recent months I have participated as a jury member in two competitions Sport and Culture Centre in Grindsted and the new Cancer Rehabilitation Centre in Copenhagen. Processes with important lessons in the field of architecture and health. I believe these issues will be essential for discussing sustainability in architecture the coming years.

In the new Natural Science Museum ideas competition we were pleased to obtain a small price in our effort to challenge the program and question the decisions made concerning important issues such as placement, infrastructure and sustainability. We hope our ideas can help provide the right basis for the coming project competition.

In the Royal Academy, School of Architecture we held our COP 15 exhibition; In collaboration with Schwiss architect Phillippe Rahm and 100 students from department 10 I developed a book examining new qualities in architecture and climate.

1. December The Danish Foundation for Culture and Sports Facilities publicised their new book about sustainability as the future basis for their projects. The book includes our project “Kulmøllen” as an example where and old powerplant will be transformed in to a new youth Sport and Culture facility using integrated energy design.

Once again we chose to give our support to Medecins Sans Frotieres. Merry Christmas and happy new year 2010.

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This quote by Stephen Taylor in dialogue with Ryue Nishizava (SANAA) and interviewer Giovanna Borasi pinpoints the potential for a new more sustainable urban architecture:

At this moment when everyone is addressing the question of sustainability in terms of insulation and solar panels, the idea of making a habitable life in the core ore the centre of a city is very much part of the answer. To make it a kind of a human pleasure to return home to a place of tranquillity and privacy on one level, but connected to the community on another………… this notion of the two homes phenomenon, exists n London too. I think it’s a condition of our age. But it’s the idea that on Friday night you leave town and go somewhere which is pleasurable when in fact, you are joining the rest of the commuters for two hours to go out to the countryside and then on Sunday night you join them and go back. It will be different if the place in town is a place of pleasure; and not only that you also have the benefit of the city.

Some ideas on living in London and Tokyo publicised by Lars Müller and edited by Giovanna Borasi.

The house for Alvar Aaltos boat by the architects Claudia Schulz and Anne-Mette Krolmark is an important statement for a poetic relation between architecture and nature in recent Scandinavian architecture.

Claudia Schulz has 10 years of experience from Copenhagen based offices KHR, DOMUS and JJW including everything from competitions, designwork, construction and supervision. Her nature languages is both Danish and German. If you have any good ideas then please let me know ore send her a mail at claudiakbh@gmail.com. You can download her CV pressing here: LINKEDIN

photo: Maija Holma © Alvar Aalto Foundation

Fossil society; Are we stuck ore will we find more meaningful ways to get on from here ?

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My collection of great architecture that I have visited and photographed now contains 100+ architects….have a look at flickr/

This photo is from a housing project in Paris by Edouard Francois. The greening is integrated as part of the railing; a really beautiful façade!

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When there’s little activity on this blog you might find me micro-blogging at
Twitter. Have a nice summer now that I am back to work.

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Philippe Rahm which projects I have documented on this blog last year is currently participating in the very well curated exhibition “The future of architecture is green” at Louisiana.

Philippe Rahm challenges our conception of spaces exploring thoroughly the sensibility of human biology beyond visual perception.

I attended his beautiful lecture “Meteorological Architecture” held this week in KARCH and we hope to offer a workshop with Philippe Ramn the coming semester.

I can only recommend to visit the exhibition at Louisiana which includes some of my favourite architectural studios such as Lacatton&Vassal, ecosystema urbano, Andrea Deplazes and Shigeru Ban; all front runners of ecological architecture with a sensibility for playful human spaces.

Bearing in mind that true ecologycal architecture not only has a low CO2 etc. but provides humans with enjoyable living spaces I would also have liked to include works souch as studio FAR´s poetic wall house, WORK AC´s projects for urban farming, Hiroshi Sambuichis earth architecture and Exploration´s biomimical architecture. A section could also have been dedicated to the art of landscape architecture where ecology and our relation whit nature is not a new discussion. Anyway go see it ! its worth while