Public Facilities Community Centre Herstedlund by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter

Architects Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps have designed Community Centre Herstedlund in Denmark, based on the idea of the forest and the glades. The architecture provides the framework for joint activities for a new residential area, housing approximately 600 families. The programme of the building had to be very open and with the possibility to grow along with the new inhabitants. The community centre should be able to incorporate many different ages and interests over time, and many types of communities from the informal meeting around an event, summer festival, a big football or presentation to the special interests and common eating.

It will be a local user-driven house of culture where it is possible for multiple independent users to use the building at the same time. The building provides space for all kinds of smaller cultural events in the broadest sense. It should be available to be used at all hours for teaching, dancing, sports, theatre, aerobics, yoga, barbecue, lectures, bridge tournament, children’s theatre and weddings.

Sustainability The project meets the Tier 2 Energy, and has the following environmental initiatives included:
* Solar panels on top of the stair cases in combination with soil heating.
* Differential ventilation principles (Full mechanical, hybrid and control ventilation).
* Possibility for thermo active decks using soil heating for cooling in the summer.
* Collected Rainwater is used for flushing.
* Omission of hot water in toilets.
* Motion-controlled taps and lighting.

Architect by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps
Location in Albertslund, Denmark
Client from Freja Ejendomme A/S
Constractor by N. H. Hansen og Søn A/S
Construction Engineer by Jørgen Nielsen A/S
Engineering, Electricity & Plumbing : Jens-Peter Madsen ApS
Landscape : Svend Kierkegaard A/S
Site Area : 875 sqm
Construction Area : 408 sqm
Project Year : 2009
Photographs : Adam Mørk

Design and Materials Architecture :
The construction is concrete columns and a deck construction of Filigree slabs. Stabilizing concrete elements represents the lift / stair case core.
Glass panels consist of energy glass with wood / alu -frames.
External cladding is carried out in a combination of solid or perforated anodized aluminium plates.
The closed facades are self-supporting sandwich elements in steel. [source]

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