The Aarhus Harbour development provides an enormous opportunity for Denmark’s second largest city to develop in a socially sustainable way by renovating its old, out-of-use container terminal. The area is meant to become a living city quarter, comprised of a multitude of cultural and social activities, a generous amount of workplaces, and of course, a highly mixed and diverse array of housing types.

The Iceberg Project seeks to locate itself within the goals of the overall city development. A third of the project’s 200 apartments will be set aside as affordable rental housing, aimed at integrating a diverse social profile into the new neighborhood development. The project’s main obstacle is the density set up for the development, the desired square meters are in conflict with the specified site height restrictions and the overall intentions of providing ocean views along with good daylight conditions.

The Iceberg negotiates this problematic, by remaining far below the maximum heights at points and emerging above the dotted line at other moments. "Peaks" and "canyons" form; eliciting the project’s iconic strength while ensuring that all flats will be supplied with a generous amount of natural lighting and waterfront views.

PROJECT:   Mixed Use Development, Housing
TYPE:    Invited Competition, 1st Prize
SIZE:     21 600 m2
BUDGET:   60 000 000 DKK
CLIENT:    Tækker Group, Brabrand Boligforening
COLLABORATORS:  CEBRA, Louis Paillard, SeArch
LOCATION:   Aarhus, Denmark
STATUS:   Under Construction