Join us for a tour of our latest project Byg Udenfor – temporary housing for the homeless on Saturday October 9 2021 on the occasion of this year’s Aarhus Architecture Festival.
The Byg Udenfor project consists of six small 15m2 mobile housing units for homeless people. The units were designed with input from local homeless people and built one at a time with residents as assistants. The housing is set up for temporary periods, preferably a few months or more at a time, on vacant municipal land between the former hospital buildings at the County Hospital. The project was created by the homeless organisation Project UDENFOR and designed and built by Architects Without Borders DK. The project was awarded the City Architect’s Special Prize for Temporary Architecture.
“Ownership, belonging and community have been created, and six people who have struggled to feel at home in our society have been given a better foundation to build a life in a less vulnerable position.”
The event is free of charge. We meet at the main entrance of the County Hospital, at the gate of the building Tage Hansens Gade 2 at 16.00. The tour starts with an introduction to the project by architect and project manager Kim Pretzman. Read more about the event here.
About the festival:
Once again this year, you can experience the Aarhus Architecture Festival when it unfolds a diverse programme of exhibitions, talks, guided tours – and of course the film screenings that have been central to the narrative, experience and discussion of architecture since the first year of the festival.
With the theme of ‘landscapes of care’, the festival has organised a programme that explores how care is practised and manifested in architecture and urban development in a historical, contemporary and future perspective, and how our understanding of care helps to shape our daily lives – in the immediate as well as in the broader lines of urban planning visions. The festival is curated by Aysha Amin (gallerist, cultural practitioner and artist) and Margarida Waco (architect and PhD fellow). See the full festival programme here.
