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Green Solution House 2.0

3XN GXN

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Timber is the primary construction material and provides the hotel’s structure, cladding, and insulation - Adam Mørk
Generous skylights bring ample daylight into the interiors and reduce the need for artificial lighting . - Adam Mørk
The timber finishes provide a cosy and domestics feel to the interiors - Kristoffer Linus
Timber is the primary construction material and provides the hotel’s structure, cladding, and insulation - Adam Mørk

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JURY VOTES
Hotel
7.32
7.17
6.93
8.08
7.38
Luca Macri
Luca Macri Partner at Lamatilde
8
7
7
8.5
7.63
Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith Associate Designer at M Moser Associates
8
7
8
9
8
Weiping Lin
Weiping Lin Founder and Design Director at Lin Wei Ping Design Consulting
6
7
6.5
8
6.88
Ludmila Machado
Ludmila Machado Founder at Aurora Design
6
8
7
9
7.5
Mark Timo
Mark Timo Founder at De Interieur Club
8
7
7
8
7.5
Filip Milovanovic
Filip Milovanovic Design Director at Yabu Pushelberg
This project is interesting because...
8
7
7
8.5
7.63
Terry Xu
Terry Xu Chief Designer at Masanori Design Studio
8
8
7
8
7.75
Drew Gilbert
Drew Gilbert Design Manager at OBMI
7.22
6.98
7.14
8.5
7.46
Apoorva Shroff
Apoorva Shroff Founder at lyth Design
5
5
5
6
5.25
Llisa Demetrios
Llisa Demetrios Chief Curator at The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity
8
7
7
8
7.5
Isabelle Kievenheim
Isabelle Kievenheim Head of Store Development at & Other Stories H&M Group
7
8
7
9
7.75
Alessandro Ranaldi
Alessandro Ranaldi Head of Workplace Consultancy at Foster and Partners
8
7
7
9
7.75
Jai Kumaran
Jai Kumaran Partner at West of West
The project demonstrates a consiste...
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8
8
9
8.5
Juan Alberto Andrade
Juan Alberto Andrade Founder at Juan Alberto Andrade
7.73
7.8
7.69
8.39
7.9
Marcel Häusler
Marcel Häusler Creative Director at Karl Anders
8
8
7
8
7.75
Yuan Jiang
Yuan Jiang Cofounder at Soda
5
6
5
5
5.25
Yuanman Huang
Yuanman Huang Cofounder and Creative Designer at GS Design
7.54
7.13
7.44
7.44
7.39
Designer
Client
Green Solution House
Floor area
1035 ㎡
Completion
2022
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Green Solution House 2.0 is a hotel in the town of Rønne on the Danish island of Bornholm. Developed in very close collaboration between 3XN and GXN the hotel’s design is rooted in rigorous sustainability principles in materials, construction, and performance, and is an uncompromising development of the adjoining Green Solution House completed by 3XN and GXN in 2015.

Chosen, in part, for its unrivalled sustainability credentials and ability to lock away carbon, timber is the primary construction material and provides the hotel’s structure, cladding, and insulation. The design exposes and celebrates the carefully chosen materials throughout the building, and this is immediately evident on arrival from the warm natural aesthetic of the timber cladding. The main elements of the building, including the walls and slabs, are composed of large, prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels manufactured in a factory and simply assembled on site. This method minimises construction time, costs and waste and ensures a high degree of accuracy in production.

The design further exploits the high accuracy and repeatable process of the computer-controlled fabrication method to incorporate bespoke solutions at a much lower cost than traditional construction methods. Features such as elegant grills for natural ventilation are cut directly into the CLT panels, demonstrating the benefit of a holistic design approach and the synergy between design, manufacturing, and performance. The standardised design of the units also allowed the designers to carefully predict the dimensions and quantity of material offcuts, which would otherwise go to waste, and use them to create bespoke furniture items for the hotel.

Internally, exposed CLT panels continue the ethos of honest material finishes and provide a welcoming domestic character to the spaces and a consistent dialogue between exterior and interior. Generous skylights and carefully orientated glazing bring ample daylight into the interiors, reduce the need for artificial lighting and provide a strong connection to the surroundings, while also providing natural ventilation and eliminating the need for mechanical solutions. This holistic design approach provides solutions that ensure the building will also be sustainable in operation throughout its lifetime while contributing to a healthy and uplifting interior environment for the guests and staff.

A rooftop terrace and spa provide guests with a quiet retreat overlooking the adjacent woodland. Here, timber finishes are complemented by tiles of upcycled glass from local sources, providing a palette of materials reflective of the building’s focus on environmental sustainability. In this way, GSH2.0 stands as a showcase for material innovation, demonstrating that alternative circular solutions can provide an aesthetic quality and performance comparable to virgin material while offering the added benefit of a much lower carbon footprint.