Partnerships
Living Places Copenhagen, the first prototypes of Living Places, served as a living lab for the world, with more than 12,000 on-site visitors across 177 events and activities and 318 guided tours.
The Living Places Copenhagen prototypes showed that we can build affordable homes with an ultra-low CO2-footprint and a healthy indoor climate already today.
Now, through industry partnerships, the Living Places concept is expanding its impact with new projects in locations.
SMÛK house
The Living Places concept was also implemented through a partnership between VELUX and a Dutch homebuilder, Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma. The collaboration led to Living Places Netherlands, called SMÛK house, opening in Dokkum, Netherlands in September 2024. SMÛK house showcases the model’s adaptability and possibility for a global impact.
Children’s Living Places
Initiated by SOS Children’s Villages Denmark, Children’s Living Places in Ukraine, will house children displaced by the war in Ukraine. It will be comprised of three clusters of low-carbon, healthy homes, where children will live with foster families, receive psychosocial support and have access to shared recreational spaces. Children’s Living Places is scheduled to begin construction in 2025.
HusCompagniet
With the partner agreement on Living Places, The VELUX Group is sharing analyses, calculations, and simulations from Living Places as well as detailed information about the five principles with HusCompagniet. They will work to implement this knowledge in several future projects with the ambition of eventually offering homes with a first-class indoor climate and as low a carbon footprint as possible to Danish homeowners.
Thylander
In 2023, Thylander launched its Build for Life fund, which aims to build attractive rental housing in Greater Copenhagen with high quality and good materials - and with a 30% lower carbon footprint than required by the Danish building regulations. The Living Places concept will play a significant role in the continued improvement of the fund’s new-built housing. The ambition is to build the new homes with inspiration from the five principles of the Living Places concept; that homes should be healthy, simple, flexible, scalable and strengthen the community.
igloo Regeneration
VELUX Group has partnered with sustainable developer igloo Regeneration to bring the Living Places concept to life in Sunderland. As part of a major urban regeneration effort, igloo will build new homes inspired by VELUX’s award-winning approach to healthy, low-carbon living. The collaboration aims to raise the bar for sustainable housing and wellbeing in the UK.
Domea.dk
The VELUX Group and Domea.dk have entered a partnership to bring the Living Places concept into Denmark’s affordable housing sector. Domea.dk will be the first non-profit housing provider to apply the concept’s principles, sustainability, low carbon emissions, and healthy indoor climates, in a full-scale social housing project.
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