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Carlsberg - our city, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008-27
Entasis
Competition won in 2007 by Entasis for a new town in Copenhagen
The New Carlsberg City District, a 33 ha site
Carlsberg - our city_masterplan

Carlsberg - our city - our spaces
In 2007 from 221 entries Entasis won the international competition on
the development of Carlsberg's old industrial plot in Valby/Copenhagen.
Carlsberg - our city is a network of public spaces that offer themselves
to users in the form of gardens, squares, axes, streets, alleys, passages
and, last but not least a number of privately owned but publicly accessible
buildings. It is an ambition that so many of the existing buildings and
all of the existing outdoor space should open up to public life.
New Carlsberg city train station - illustration

Carlsberg our city, therefore, means space rather than building.
As a natural consequence of this, the city's room to find an architectural
spirit before the buildings can be built. 12 major urban spaces at Carlsberg
have been given a functional and aesthetic code. In view of the codes
the urban spaces must find their natural form. An urban space is essential
for the nearby buildings and help to encode architectural and functional
form.
Public space_brewery house plaza - illustration from the competition

The city's room first - the buildings afterwards.
With a proposal seeking reconciliation of the classic city's density and
credible urban spaces - with state-of-the-art knowledge in sociology,
architecture, art and engineering - the vision for a future city is created.
Carlsberg wants to be in the lead and show the way for a social, economic
and environmental sustainable city.
Social sustainability will support the creation of a strong and diverse
city driven by verve, the diversity of experiences and meetings between
cultures. The social sustainability is to be found in the diverse city
where the cultural buildings and spaces, offices, kindergartens, shops
and homes coexist. The diversity of housing posibilities is maximized
and different ownership is aimed at different target groups. The green
city and the healthy city are further themes in the social sustainability
subject.
Public Space_colonnade - illustration

Carlsberg financial sustainability is the city's development which largely
supports the company Carlsberg as a business. The area's development is
changed to a new town in Copenhagen, which in quality and content distinguished,
so also tourists, Copenhageners, neighbours and others want to come here
and use the spaces. The lively and close town in new and historical framework
is the area's attraction, and makes sure that many will live, work and
use the area, and ultimately ensure economic earnings to the company Carlsberg.
Public space_main road and the Carlsberg gate - illustration

Environmental sustainability minimizes resource use and environmental
impacts in the new Carlsberg city. Enviromental sustainability is also
reached through an objective of low energy and CO2 neutral operation of
the city's houses, of nearby public transport, of urban density, combined
with the requirement of underground parking, a priority of vulnerable
road users, which creates the basis for that the city can be built according
to environmentally sound principles, where organic measures appear integrated
with the architecture and point to a sustainable city. It is a goal to
make Carlsberg into a CO2 neutral city.
Public space_water plaza - illustration from competition

Vacating the site, the Carlsberg company - the breweries and several other
industrial and business functions - leave an enormous heritage, which
gives the new city a base to be built on. The heritage in means of buildings
spaces, basements, art, statues, trees and different materials, are to
be used actively in the new city.
Public Space_The plaza of industrial culture - illustration

Carlsberg - our city is already in the making as the first masterplan
is laid out to public hearing and architect offices and planning professionals
have started planning of the first phases of the new city.
Public space_the basement plaza - illustration

Address: Carlsberg - Copenhagen
Client: Carlsberg Ejendomme A/S
Architect: entasis A/S
Size: The area is 33 hectares with a total settlement of 600,000 sq metres
Competition project: won in 2007
Network of public spaces - illustration plan

Sustainability figure_Idea of how to make a sustainable city

Intent and goal on operational energy consumption

Classical vs modern city scape

Building images from Entasis 020908
Also by Entasis : Gentofte
building
Also by Entasis : Marstrands
Have housing complex, Copenhagen
2003

Mixed type housing
Copenhagen Architecture
Danish Buildings
Architecture
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Comments / photos for the Carlsberg Masterplan building page welcome:
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Carlsberg Masterplan, Copenhagen
- page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
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