Living Places Partner Network: Building on Shared Knowledge
Applying Living Places principles at scale. See how IGLOO is helping shape future homes.
Award-winning principles
Living Places Copenhagen proved that healthier, more sustainable and affordable homes can be built today. The project has received international recognition, including the MIPIM Award for Best Residential Project and the New European Bauhaus Prize, and has become the foundation for a growing network of developers and housebuilders applying the principles in practice.
Living Places Partner Network: Building on Shared Knowledge
Living Places Copenhagen proved that applying five core principles —healthy, shared, simple, adaptive and scalable— delivers homes that work better for people, planet and business.
Now, through our Partners network, leading developers and housebuilders are demonstrating how these principles create competitive advantage: better buildings, stronger market differentiation, and projects that meet the housing challenges of today and tomorrow.
Better Buildings, Better Business
Living Places Partners are pioneering developers, professional housebuilders and architects who recognize that healthier, more sustainable and affordable housing isn't just good for communities, it's good for business.
By partnering with VELUX to build projects based on Living Places principles, they gain access to proven solutions, real project data and a knowledge network that accelerates success:
Why Partner?
In partnership with VELUX, leading developers access the proven insights and design principles from Living Places Copenhagen to build homes that set new standards for health, sustainability and affordability
- Learn faster – Access proven solutions and project data from Living Places Copenhagen
- Build smarter – Network with leading European developers to exchange knowledge and insights
- Scale quicker – Accelerate adoption with tested approaches and dedicated support
- Lead publicly – Be recognized as market leaders advancing the future of housing
United States of America
Habitat for Humanity
A collaboration focused on delivering affordable, healthy homes for communities in need. Together with Habitat for Humanity of York County, we demonstrate how simple, cost-effective daylight and ventilation solutions can improve living conditions, supporting wellbeing and energy efficiency in accessible housing projects.
United Kingdom
IGLOO Regeneration
In Sunderland, Igloo is exploring how knowledge developed through Living Places can be translated into homes designed for the realities of the UK housing market. The project will deliver 42 homes and forms part of a broader ambition to understand how better housing can move from demonstration projects into everyday practice.
Denmark
Domea
Through a partnership with VELUX, Domea is exploring how Living Places principles can be applied within Danish social housing. The ambition is to create homes that combine good indoor conditions, lower carbon emissions and durable construction while remaining accessible to a broad range of residents.
Denmark
Thylander
Through a partnership with VELUX, Thylander is applying Living Places knowledge within residential developments across Denmark. The ambition is to demonstrate how healthier homes, lower carbon emissions and strong resident experiences can be integrated into projects designed for real-world delivery.
Denmark
HusCompagniet
Through a strategic partnership with VELUX, HusCompagniet is exploring how Living Places knowledge can contribute to future housing developments with the ambition of making healthier and more sustainable homes accessible to more people.
Ukraine
SOS Children's Villages Denmark
Initiated by SOS Children's Villages Denmark, the project supports children without parental care, children at risk of losing parental care and foster families through new family-based care environments in Ukraine.
The Netherlands
Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma
When Dutch housebuilder Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma (BGDD) joined the Living Places Network, the ambition was not to recreate Living Places Copenhagen. The ambition was to understand whether the ideas behind it could work somewhere else. The result is Smûk, the first Living Places project developed outside Denmark. Completed in Dokkum in 2024.
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