Helsinge Haveby - Village of Tomorrow
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Helsinge Haveby (Helsinge Garden City) - Village of Tomorrow - is the concept and masterplan for a new residential enclave 55 minutes north of Copenhagen in Denmark. Transforming traditional mono-cultural agriculture fields into a diverse mix of wetlands, meadows, orchards and agroforestry, the new neighborhood enable its future residents to lead a more sustainable lifestyle with a higher degree of self-sufficiency while offering the same services, amenities and freedom, as urban life in the city.
Aiming to create an attractive alternative for the many city-dwellers looking to relocate outside of major cities, the new a new sustainable and self-sufficient residential masterplan is routed in three main themes: a robust, sustainable natural environment with a rich biodiversity, more community and an affordable lifestyle.
The winning project responds to an ever-growing demand for increased life quality in the built environment among future home owners. A new study by analysis institute YouGov, made for the Homeowners Knowledge Database, Bolius, shows that every fifth person living in the city today, plan to live in the countryside in 2030 – calling for a better, more healthy living environment, more community and affordable homes.
The traditional detached houses are replaced by social clusters integrated in the surrounding natural landscape. The majority of the land is shared among the residents allowing for a larger managed food production fully integrated between the building. By integrating residential development, decentralized energy production and local organic food production, the new masterplan concept strive to offer the ability to harvest crops directly outside your door as a fully integrated service in the line of running water in the tap or access to electric car sharing. The thesis being that the proximity to the food production can help eliminate food waste and lower the general energy consumption.
**This project presentation is currently being updated**
PROJECT DATA
Project name
Helsinge Haveby
Typology
Masterplan, Residential
Location
Helsinge, DK
Year
2016
Status
First pize
Size
700.000 m2
Client
Municipality of Gribskov
Collaborators
Karrens+Brands, Atkins, CFBO
Design team
Tue Hesselberg Foged, Sinus Lynge, Mikkel Bøgh, Marte Lyngaas, Kasper Reimer, Christoffer Gotfredsen, Ulrik Mathiasson, Evgeny Markachev, Yulia Kozlova, Carlos Suriñach, Ewa Abratkiewicz
Helsinge Haveby transforms the mono-cultural industrial farmland into the future home of 700 families,
restoring biodiversity and providing a multiplicity of new activities
Helsinge Haveby seen from above
"In 2030 one in five people living in an urban environment expect to be living in the countryside..."
- YouGov for BOLIUS
Life inside the clusters

Self-sufficiency and resource network
CONCEPT
From detached housing in the suburbs to dwellings set directly in nature
From isolated plots to social clusters
From on-grid to off-grid
From mono-cultural industrialized farmland to permaculture forrest gardens and increased biodiversity
From accessible production farmland to integrated residential natural habitat
Helsinge Haveby is part of of a greater recreational strategy for Helsinge,
connecting cultural and commercial activities in one continous green network.
LANDSCAPE
Landscape plan and biotopes
DEVELOPMENT PHASES
Development plan for the next 50 years