Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab

How do we create housing that addresses some of the greatest challenges of our time? This question forms the basis for Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab. Six groundbreaking Danish architectural projects are exhibited to explore how housing can respond to the current climate crisis, future urban challenges, shifting family patterns and new ways of living. Common to all of them is that they will be realized as full-scale housing experiments in Denmark.

The Danish examples offer models that can help new housing better fit into our neighborhoods through design excellence and a wider set of residential typologies.

Gallery Visits

Open Daily, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

RELATED EVENTS

Saturday, June 21, 2025, 2PM
Opening Reception

FEATURED PROJECTS AND TEAMS

• Self-build in Musicon
  Roskilde Municipality, Vandkunsten Architects, Nordiq Group, &Foldschack, COWI, researchers Anne Romme and Morten Birk Jørgensen (the Royal Danish Academy) and PhD Silje Sollien

• Vertical courtyards
  PensionDanmark, ONV arkitekter, Gehl
• Symbiotic Houses
  Wihlborgs, URBAN POWER, FLUX, NxT, Stokbro, ØsterGro

• The Multi-generational Wooden Building
  Ørestad, Copenhagen: Boligforeningen 3B; KAB, Byggepartnerskabet &Os
  Aalborg: Himmerland Boligforening
  Aarhus: Brabrand Boligforening and Boligforeningen Århus Omegn
  Valby: Samvirkende Boligselskaber Østerbro
  Copenhagen: AKB

• Stengården
  Kollektivet Stengården (Hannibal Rasmussen, Mette Johnsen, Ane Vithner, Cecilie Morrison, Josh Morrison, Mathias Nilsson, Kathrine Westfall, Maya Degn, Simon Mikdal), Office Kim Lenschow, Fælleskassen, Byggevirke & Datter

• Cohousing for Single Parents
  Domea.dk, ADEPT, Rambøll

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab is a joint initiative of the Danish Arts Foundation and Realdania. The US premier of the exhibition is presented by Scan Design Foundation, whose mission is to support the cross-cultural exchange between Denmark and the US, in partnership with the Embassy of Denmark in Washington DC.

The Chicago exhibition is presented by the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) and MAS Context.

Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab was exhibited in Copenhagen in 2023 as part of the UIA World Congress of Architects. From November 2024 to May 2025, it was exhibited in four locations in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle Architecture Foundation, University of Washington College of Built Environments, Portland State University School of Architecture, and Nordic Northwest).