We are happy to share that in great collaboration with Elkiær + Ebbeskov Arkitekter, PLH Arkitekter and OJ Rådgivende Ingeniører, we have won the competition “Favrholm Stadionkvarter”, a new urban and landscape development in the southern part of Hillerød.

Favrholm Stadionkvarter will be a new neighbourhood full of physical and social activities, an area that has the potential to become a pioneering project and a model for the development of new residential areas of the future. The stadium neighbourhood is located on the outskirts of Hillerød and will add some essential new functions that will be able to attract many people to major sporting events, but no less importantly, will also offer versatile play, learning and leisure facilities in everyday life.

The area’s hilly landscape, shaped in the Ice Age, is in many ways challenged by the football programme – the flat surface. But at the same time, it initiates a landscape spatiality of terrain differences intertwined with the buildings and where the hills and glacial basins of the Ice Age become structuring landscape elements for a new recreational activity landscape.

The stadium neighbourhood will be the place for all kinds of leisure activities.

Favrholm Stadionkvarter is not just a stadium in a residential area but mixes sports activities with social activities and landscape experiences. In this way, Favrholm Stadionkvarter recognises that health is not only about physical strength and endurance but also about mental and social well-being.

North Zealand is known for great forests, which the Royal Family has used for par force hunting, but it is also in these forests that the cities of Hillerød, Allerød and Birkerød have emerged as clearings.

The woods have embraced the cities and formed a calm background. Over time, the development of urban areas and agriculture has cleared large forest areas.

The proposal seeks to restore forests, to strengthen the area’s cohesion with the rest of North Zealand. Moreover, the reestablishment of large tree-covered areas will form a ridge that creates shelter from the wind around the football fields but also will bring diversity to the areas between the football pitches and the landscape activity programme.