Project:
Living on the edge

To become sustainable is not necessarily about attracting those who already live in the cities, but also to offer alternative standard to todays detached housing and suburban life. This is for us sustainability in its broadest sense. Expanding cities and human habitats is one of the biggest threats to the ongoing loss of biodiversity. As architects and planners, we need to rethink how we approach unbuilt land, we need to define new strategies for how to incorporate human settlement into existing biotopes and landscapes, without losing the qualities that the land offers. We have through a landscape analysis and mapping, looked into the possibility of using the edge between the cultivated landscape and the forest as frame for future housing developments. We have looked at how the transition between the two biotopes can be extended, and how new constellations of life can be introduced.