Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects has continued the development of a housing concept with focus on low energy consumption, affordability and flexibility. 

Continued collaboration with different business partners on this project provides Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects valuable challenges, feedback, and inspiration for working with both environmental and social sustainability.

The concept’s flexibility means that the houses - more than 100 row houses - are now being realized on several locations across Denmark. Some as family homes and some as homes for disabled.

The project is designed with inspiration from the nordic townhouse tradition of modern and liveable houses. Human scale and vibrant facades make it an attractive type of housing.

Affordable quality housing requires a build system with a high degree of repetition and prefabrication. The building elements are prefabricated as room-size elements at a factory and erected and installed on foundations on site. The low energy consumption is possible with the integration of measures like solar arrays and solar traps, extra insulation, ventilation plant with heat recycling, and heat pumps.

The units are light constructions in recyclable materials such as timber, aluminium, galvanized steel and zinc.

Facts - ‘Energy Zero Home’

Energy consumption: < 1kWh/m2/year

Thermal transmittance

Windows: 0.65W/m2K

Facades/roof/floor: 0.08-0.1W/m2K

Sustainable Energy Europe
The ‘Energy Zero Home’ project has been selected to be part of the EU ‘Sustainable Energy Europe’ campaign wich is dedicated to energy-efficient, sustainable solutions.

Sustainbale Energy Europe is an attempt to present an overall picture of European efforts in this field and to spread best practice in sustainable technologies, develop networks, and inspire new ideas and approaches. Some 450 projects and events are currently involved.