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THE LANDSCAPE
One moves around the estate along a series of cultivated paths with grey paving stones between protected species of grass and small flowers that grow undisturbed up the hills between the houses. The estate consists of two and three room houses, some singlestorey, some two-storey and others with up to four staggered levels. Almost all the houses have a view of fields and woods. “I love walking around the estate. A long, straight road can be a depressing experience, but here in Ny Moesgård we have created exciting jumps and spatial variation by staggering the houses in relation to each other,” says architect Egon Brink from the architectural practice C.F. Møller.
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CHILDREN NOT WANTED
“Obtaining permission to build homes in the area was relatively uncomplicated,” says Egon Brink, who was the design manager on the project. “But the local authority made an unusual requirement – none of the houses was to have more than 3 rooms. The view was taken that tenancies with just a few rooms would be less attractive to families with many children. The reason for wanting that was that the local primary and lower secondary school did not have sufficient capacity to cope with a sudden intake of new pupils. One of the design consequences is that even the large houses, which have a floor area of 124m2, have only 3 rooms. That, together with the interior changes in level, has resulted in some untraditional homes with big spatial differences in both ceiling height and illumination. Despite the attempt to avoid children on the estate, several of the homes have scooters outside the door and prams on the paths.
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