detail of Danish inscribed on floor
Today we went all around CPH suburbia. It was a sustainable by design field study day. We started off at Rockwool Forskningscenter - a lab for insulation products and other building materials, then moved on to Munkesøgård - a sustainable cohouse commune. This place was a little weird. Housing was divided by age and family status. Everyone works in the garden and are given special jobs, for instance - the snow plowing team. Daniel and I decided that even during a winter like this where two feet of snow can drop over night it still beats the poo job anyday. The poo job is shoveling horse droppings into the gardens and crops. Don't get me wrong, this is not manure, these were straight up horse patties. Also, these 100 families shared 8 cars. We were told that in Copenhagen it is actually cheaper to take a taxi to and from work everyday than to purchase and maintain a car...
Daniel likes the church
After that experience we travelled to Jyllinge Hellig Kors Kirke. This was a stunning church design using a very ecologically friendly super material. The material has incredible strength and flexibility and is 100% post consumer products. This has been one of my favorite churches in Denmark.
view of the pulpit view of facade
After that we went to another eco-village in Torup, and finally to a Crowne Plaza in Ørestad. Neither of these were jaw dropping. What is jaw dropping is that I was able to write most of my case study paper between stops. All in all, it was an exhausting St. Patty's Day, but at least we were studying different ways of being GREEN.
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