Blangstedgård

Type
Master plan, single-family house (1) multiple-family houses (3) daycare & leisure center

Address
Plot 10: Stammen 25-29, Odense, Denmark
Plot 13: Parcel 13: Blommegrenen 111-137 / Stammen 31-45, Odense, Danmark
Plot 19: Pæregrenen 55-101, Odense,  Denmark
Plot 45: Pæregrenen 115, Odense, Denmark
Daycare & leisure center: Stammen 2, Odense, Denmark

Client
Plot 10: Andelsboligforeningen Kristiansdal
Plot 13: Odense Andelsboligforening
Plot 19: Odense Andelsboligforening
Plot 45: CA-Gruppen
Daycare & leisure center: Odense Municipality

Engineer
Plot 10: Oluf Jørgensen A/S
Plot 19: Axel Nielsen A/S
Plot 45: Oluf Jørgensen A/S
Daycare & leisure centre: Oluf Jørgensen A/S

Landscape
Plot 10: Svend Kierkegaard
Plot 19: Ginman, Harboe & Borup A/S
Plot 45: Svend Kierkegaard
Daycare & leisure center: Ginman, Harboe & Borup A/S

Year
Completed 1988
Master plan competition won 1985

When Odense turned 1000, the city decided to launch an large housing and construction exhibition with the objective to create a new neighborhood with a focus on varied residential forms and an overall feeling of community. The master plan competition for the new neighborhood became the project that founded Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects.

In 1985 Odense municipality launched an open competition for the transformation of the orchard Blangstedgård, formerly deployed as the state’s research station for fruit and plant production 1915-85.

The city’s anniversary was marked by BYG&BO, a large untraditional housing and construction exhibition. The theme was “Integrated housing environments with a human focus.” The city’s need for new, social housing was to be met by a new neighborhood with communal functions. With 600 exhibited residences and 110.000 visitors the exhibition became an important event in the city of Odense.

The listed buildings on site as well as the preservation of the landscape of the former orchard became key to the design of the new master plan. To create a densified and varied, urban experience the neighborhood’s new town square and larger new buildings such as the daycare and community center are placed in the south western corner of the plot.  Here the listed 18th century Yellow Barn and the main building of Blangstedgård dating back to the 1300s form a natural anchorage point.

Natural fences and local communities
The grid of existing fruit trees and bushes forms natural pockets that nestle the individual clusters of residences. Each cluster creates a local community that feels intimate and personal. A pivotal idea was to all residences direct access to the landscape and the many green, recreational areas. Towards the perimeter of the neighborhood the residential volumes slim down melting into the landscape as smaller more scattered clusters of private houses.

We assisted the municipality to select the housing associations that were to build Blangstedgård’s new residences. In the space of ten months 20 different developers built approx. 600 homes as part of the housing exhibition.
Subsequently 250 new homes were built. Today Blangstedgård offers 950 homes. The neighborhood celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2018.