Sturlasgade is a modular adaptive reuse project 15 minutes outside of Copenhagen. During my time at Jaja, I worked closely on Sturlasgade and was able to be involved in all parts of the design process. The client turned to Jaja wanting elegant, high end housing with a strong emphasis on sustainable construction. 

In collaboration with the client, I was tasked with researching alternative materials and local providers to implement sustainable solutions such as hempcrete. I was able to focus heavily on the visualizations for this project and took ownership in making many design decisions regarding the interior visualizations and formal qualities of the housing.

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Denmark is a small country under 6 million citizens meaning it can implement radical solutions quicker. The legal barriers standing in between an idea and a solution, in regards to biomaterials, are few which also promotes people to work towards what would be considered “niche” or “specialty” eco friendly solutions in the US. I’ve been able to closely follow the team response to the ascendance of biomaterials and its commercial and residential implementation in projects across Denmark. 

Danish design is distinguishable and unique in regard to how the rest of the world designs and it’s important to recognize its distinctive factors when analyzing its principles and Danish architecture. I wrote a Bachelors Thesis Providing a summary of each of the biomaterials I learned about and how they can be applied as well as explore how these uniquely Danish factors allow for implementation of biomaterials.