Project Delivery
– An innovative, ground-breaking model for creating sustainable neighbourhoods in cold climates.
– A consensus-led masterplan developed through a participatory planning process.
– Realisation that the standard planning approach led to unsustainable outcomes.
– Rejection of sprawl typologies in favour of a compact, mixed-use development.
– Urban design solutions based on best practice ideas, including those of the Winter Cities movement, but tailored to the specific location.
– Measures to encourage an active outdoor environment, which can be used for longer periods of the year, to sustain people’s sense of well being during the winter months.
– The first large-scale sustainable drainage system in Iceland, designed in response to the site’s topography.
– 1,650 homes, 90,000 sq m of mixed-uses including commercial offices, business park, college, high school, swimming pool, health and social facilities, retail units, church, museum/cultural centre and three kindergartens.
Awards
BREEAM Communities 2012
First International project to achieve final certification under BREEAM Communities 2012
BSA/Build Boston 2007
Citation for Urban Design
International LivCom Award for Built Projects 2007
Silver Award
