BOASE – home of the future 2001
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BOASE is an experimental housing project in Copenhagen. It transforms contaminated urban areas, the settlement takes back inaccessible land. For people living a life with different approaches to work, place and privacy.

Contaminated urban areas are made useful again by cleansing the polluted soil with trees. Plants with powerful roots can fixate or eliminate pollution in the soil. 14.000 estates in Denmark are polluted from oil or chemicals.

The place is an oasis in the city. In the urban context the forest becomes a structuring element that provides identity to its surroundings and serves as a navigation point. In the forest the hectic life of the city is put into perspective. The changing of the seasons transforms the place, the dwelling and the people - living in a forest in the city - between the trees, raised above the ground on columns, where you can touch the leaves and see over the rooftops. The realisation of BOASE contains of four development-projects, sponsored by the private foundation Realdania. The four development where carried out, partly in collaboration with the Danish National Centre for Building Research and a number of building component producers.

1.cleaning of the contaminated site

2.developing of solar-membrane

3.developing of energy-accumulating façade

4.industrial optimization of the private dwelling

Jahr: 2001-2005
Status: 1. Platz, Realisiert
Auftraggeber: Realea A/S

Founding: Realdania Foundation, Danish Govermental Arts Foundation

Prizes: Index Design Award 2002, protegé Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark;  Henning Larsen Personal Award;

Exhibitions: Louvre Paris, Baden-Baden Kunsthalle, Architektur Biannale Venedig, Danish Pavilion 2002

Architekten: Force4 Architects, als Founding Partnerin Force4 Architects

Partners: Arup Engineers London, Risø Reseach Centre, Birch & Krogboe Engineers, Danish National Centre for Building Research - Aalborg University

Fotos: Force Force Architects, Ib Henriksen