Danish architecture firm ADEPT has won first place in a competition to add three new buildings to the Danish Armed Forces Complex in Aalborg, Denmark. In keeping with the Armed Forces’ Green Establishments initiative, a project that encourages the lowering of energy use and CO2 emissions, the new barracks will be a visible model of sustainability.
Titled “The Green Circuit,” each of the three buildings will be composed of a central “hub” with “circuit” wings. The hub will be a stationary, permanent part of the structure, while the circuits will be detachable, being assembled and added to the building as needed. As ADEPT partner Martin Krogh says, “There is a great potential in thinking about building, landscape and economy as flexible entities. We imagine buildings in different states – buildings that transform, hibernate and re-emerge with a different function.” To facilitate this transformation, the circuits are made of 20 and 40 foot long containers that rely on a simple structural system. They include solar panels and bio-digesters that are also movable. In this way, the buildings suggest the adaptable and sustainable nature of the Armed Forces.
The common aesthetic of the three buildings, a barracks, a multi-purpose building, and a workshop, will be a unifying force across the widespread military campus. They will also provide a model for other military complexes in Denmark and abroad.
Competition
Danish Armed Forces CompetitionAward
First PlaceProject Name
The Green CircuitArchitects
Location
Aalborg, DenmarkEngineering
COWILandscape Architects
GHB Landscape ArchitectsLocal Architect
NORD ArchitectsArea
9000.0 sqmProject Year
2016Photographs
ADEPT / doug&wolf, Courtesy of ADEPTCompetition
Danish Armed Forces CompetitionAward
First PlaceProject Name
The Green CircuitLocation
Aalborg, DenmarkProject Year
2016Photographs
ADEPT / doug&wolf, Courtesy of ADEPTArea
9000.0 m2
