Arkitekturens Dag / Architecture Day 2021
/
Today, the 4th October, is Architecture Day - new connections to nature and Arkitektforeningen - the Danish Association of Architects - has a list of the events throughout the country.
The theme of the programme this year is nature and green architecture with a wide range of events from an exhibition in Herning about new buildings with connections to nature to a reading of her essay on Nature and the city by Ellen Braae and a lecture by Karsten Thorlund of the architecture firm SLA on the connection between city and nature in Aalborg.
There are conducted tours of housing in a rural setting in Norre Søby, Christiansfeld and Nær Heden west of Copenhagen and also lectures, ceremonies for the presentation of design awards and a number of discussion sessions including a debate about Copenhagen as a green city of the future.
Many of the projects are visually stunning and make a clear attempt to take on board the problems that climate change now forces us to tackle but there is a danger that, although innovative engineering has begun to tackle threats from storm cloud burst floods, there is a danger that some of the landscape settings become the latest fashion for municipal planting and perilously close to green washing where, in fact, any prevarication will mean that future solutions may well have to be much more dramatic, intrusive and expensive.
In some cases, attractive and more natural planting around new suburban developments and well-insulated homes from recycled materials may not "cut the mustard" and resettlements, severe containment of urban growth to halt the the spread into surrounding countryside and intensive cultivation for food rather than attractive ponds and tame re-wilding may be forced on countries and particularly where they are vulnerable to rising sea levels.
Arkitektforeningen / Association of Architects
Architecture Day - new connections to nature - programme
A project to re-establish the old Skærevej between Hammershus and Allinge .... Erik Brandt Dam with Realdania and the Danish Nature Agency
photograph: Bjørn Pierri
