Herstedlund Common House

Community Centre Herstedlund provides the framework for joint activities for a new residential area, housing approximately 600 families.
The site plan is based on the idea of “the forest and the glades”. We elaborated on this theme as we designed the building as a large stylized tree at the edge of a glade.
The community centre should be able to incorporate many types of communities from the informal meeting around an event, summer festival or common eating.
It should be used at all hours for teaching, dancing, sports, theatre, aerobics, yoga, barbecue, lectures, bridge tournament, children s theatre and weddings.
To exploit the square feet available, we cross-programmed the scheme to use the building and surrounding area both independently and in a flow of spatial connections.
In the following passage, we describe the different types of space and connections:
Ground level: Kitchen and toilet facilities. Staircase and lift connects to the rest of the building.
1. st. floor: Performance space, storage
2. nd. Floor: Multipurpose area, toilets and storage
3rd. floor: Roof terrace
The Community Centre is surrounded by common outdoor activities.
A skate board ramp climbs the wall on one side, mountaineering wall on the other and through a hatch in the wall the indoor kitchen is connected to an outdoor barbequing area.
The Performance Space on the first floor extends the building s layout by adding a staircase for audience to the volume.
It is possible to close the room off with a sliding gate.
When open the Performance space is connected by an open staircase to the larger multipurpose area on the second floor to provide the perfect spatial combination for common eating and parties.
The multipurpose space can also serve as a large meeting room which can function independently from the other floors.
The Roof terrace on the third floor has direct access from the main staircase and lift, and serves as a withdrawn out door space for joint events or a small enclosed court yard for ball playing.
The site is 875 m2 and the gross-area is 408 m2.

The construction is concrete columns and a deck construction of Filigree slabs.
The closed facades are self-supporting sandwich elements in steel.
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 house is made with sealants free painted industrial floors. The roof terrace is coated with rubber granules.
Ceilings are constructed of stretched fabric-lanes with underlying acoustic absorbents and basic lighting.

The project meets the Tier 2 Energy, with an energy-consumption of 47,2 kWh/m2, and has the following environmental initiatives included:
• Solar panels on top of the stair cases in combination with ground source heat pumps.
• Differential ventilation principles (Full mechanical, hybrid and control ventilation).
• Possibility for thermo active decks using geothermal heating for cooling in the summer.
• Collected Rainwater is used for flushing.
• Omission of hot water in toilets.
• Motion-controlled taps and lighting.