Brick House is designed by the Danish architecture office Leth & Gori. The house has an area of 132 square meters and is located in Nyborg, Denmark.
Description by Leth & Gori: Leth & Gori’s Brick House is a project that creates innovation by reinventing history. By revisiting materials and solutions from historic houses which have proven to be robust and have a long life span a new type of contemporary sustainable house is created.
Brick House is part of a development project titled Mini-CO2 houses initiated by the philanthropic foundation Realdania. The goal of Realdania’s project is to develop affordable sustainable houses with a low CO2 footprint. A total of six houses have been built on a site in Nyborg Denmark. Each house with a different approach to how CO2 reduction can be achieved for example by focusing on materials and building techniques or by focusing on aiding the inhabitants to reduce CO2.
Brick House has two main objectives; to create a house which is maintenance free for 50 years; and to create a house with a life span of minimum 150 years.
Architects: Leth & Gori Studio
Area: 136 m2
Collaborators on the project are Buro Happold, Teknologisk Institut, SBi, MURO and Nini Leimand, KADK Institute 2.
Main contractor: Ebbe Bernth Murer og Tømrer, bricklayer: Murermester Ask Askholm, carpenter: Ole Larsen & Sønner v. Anders Larsen ApS; Photographs Stamers Kontor