UN17 Village Ørestad Copenhagen, Sustainable Buildings Denmark, Interior
UN17 Village Ørestad, Copenhagen
Danish Sustainable Building project – design by Årstiderne Arkitekter, Denmark
27 Nov 2018
UN17 Village, Ørestad in Copenhagen
Design: Årstiderne Arkitekter
Five buildings, totalling 35.000sqm, house over 800 people.
Location: Ørestad, south Copenhagen, Sjælland, Denmark
UN17 Village Ørestad, Copenhagen
PROBABLY THE WORLD?S MOST SUSTAINABLE BUILDING PROJECT IN COPENHAGEN
Over the coming years Copenhagen will get what might be the most sustainable building project in the world. At the last building plot of the new urban district Ørestad, the project UN17 Village will rise.

UN17 Village will be the first project ever to implement tangible solutions for all of UN’s 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) in one project – a project with a unique approach to construction, that will set new standards for sustainable building design. UN17 Village will have a unique approach to sustainability, that has not earlier been seen. As a new thing UN?s 17 Sustainable Development Goals have been used as a profound design tool.

In their work, the team behind the project has defined six focus areas which together will meet and implement all the SDGs. With focus on health, social communities, water, biodiversity, building materials and energy supply the project will have a new and ambitious approach to construction and design within all aspects of sustainabilit...