Eco-collective

Abstract: Today’s architecture is no longer an isolated field of building design, but concerns human related issues including sociology and psychology and moreover climate adaptation, ecology, sustainability and technological innovation. Taking point of departure in intensification of precipitation due to the climate change in Denmark, this thesis project attempts to investigate the possibility of establishing a new type of community based on mutual respect and beneficial relationship between architecture, urbanism, human beings and nature. Throughout a set of rules concerning energy conserving landscape, rainwater runoff connected to the climate change and benefits of native vegetation, the project envisions building and landscape design equipped for environmental climate changes and encouraging social interaction. Located on wetlands between Søndersø lake and the old military air base in Værløse, outside of Copenhagen, the thesis proposes a living space for a community situated on top of a frequently flooded area and challenges the negative perception of humidity and intensified precipitation that is commonly associated with the Danish climate, in an attempt to embrace and enhance the subtle beauty of these natural conditions evident within the area.