Henrik Valeur
projects
2011 - SoOs: Green Spaces
Floor-plan concept for the world’s most energy efficient large-scale office building located in New Delhi, by UiD/Henrik Valeur and Sarvdeep Singh Sangwan.
Self-organizing Office-system: Green Spaces is made of “green walls”, consisting of plants placed in clay pots and recycled buckets on wheels. "Green walls" produce oxygen and purify the air.
Project [1MB] pdf 
2011 - A learning center for small-scale vertical urban farming in India
Proposal by Henrik Valeur and Eco & Agro Resource Management
Rather than having food stored in huge, central facilities managed by the government, why not let people, and especially poor people, grow their own food in cities?
2011 - Le Corbusier World Culture Center Chandigarh
Proposal to transform the Capitol Complex in Chandigarh by Henrik Valeur.
Move the government, the administration and the high court into some new, modern buildings in the city, among the people where they belong. Then transform the Capitol Complex into a cultural center for modernist art and architecture, thus saving the buildings from decay, open up the area to the public and potentially increase the number of tourists in the city by more than 20 times.
2010 - Car-free Sector 19
Case-study to make one of the sectors car-free by Henrik Valeur and Chandigarh College of Architecture for the 2030 Master Plan of Chandigarh. Commissioned by the Administration of the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
When I was young […] we could still use the street for anything that we wanted including sleeping at night. We did not realize while planning urban space that the automobile would be the greatest devastator of a city.” Aditya Prakash, member of Le Corbusier's original design team and the first principal of Chandigarh College of Architecture
Project [11.1MB] jpg 
2010 - Green Streets of Chandigarh
Proposal for a coherent system of bicycle and pedestrian pathways by Henrik Valeur and Chandigarh College of Architecture for the 2030 Master Plan of Chandigarh. Commissioned by the Administration of the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
“The intention was to create a human friendly environment.” M N Sharma, member of Le Corbusier's original design team and the first Indian Chief Architect of Chandigarh
2008 - Streetscape in the New World
Open international competition for the streetscape around the Hong Kong New World Tower in Shanghai, P.R.China. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Rebecca Zelwak, Sarvdeep Singh Sangwan and Zhang Meng.
The Streetscape in the New World consists of both the existing streets for consumption and distribution and new platforms for recreation and creativity. They will provide places for communication and social interaction, but they will also provide people with new and surprising perspectives of the surroundings. The platforms are light steel structures that can easily be adapted to different contexts, modified and replaced.
Project [1.8MB] pdf 
2008 - Green Streets of Malmö
Traffic plan for bicycles in Malmö (Sweden) by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson and Martin Vozzi. Commissioned by the City of Malmö.
To improve safety and accessibility for bicycles, and to provide them with new experiences and possibilities, we propose to gradually remove all motor traffic from selected streets of Malmö, and to fill these streets with various activities and functions, greenery and even new buildings. In this way we intend to create a more coherent urban fabric where soft traffic and the activities and functions of the city are better integrated.
Project [1MB] pdf
2008 - Green Streets of Shanghai
Traffic plan for Shanghai (P.R.China) by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Rebecca Zelwak, Sarvdeep Singh Sangwan, Qian Jieyan, Zhang Meng and Xia Zhen in collaboration with Prof. Pan Haixiao. Commissioned by the Institute de Ville en Movement, Urban China and Tongji University.
The elevated highway is a unique feature of Shanghai. If the grid of elevated highways is expanded and parking buildings are constructed at frequent intervals to ensure short walking distances to anywhere in the neighborhood, all car traffic could be removed from the streets on ground level and the existing green areas could be vastly increased!
Project 3:34 min
2008 - Bicycle Tower
Project for future bicycle parking in Malmö (Sweden) by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson, Rebecca Zelwak, Sarvdeep Singh Sangwan, Ma Liang, Zhang Meng and Xia Zhen. Comissioned by the City of Malmö. Exhibited in the Pavilion of Malmö City in the Urban Best Practice Area of the World Expo 2010.
How do you make it more attractive for people to take their bike to the metro station – and thereby making the metro more popular? You make it as easy and safe as possible to park your bike at the station!
Phase 1 [1.6MB] pdf
Phase 2 [2.5MB] pdf
Project 2:16 min
2007 - Manifolds
Open international competion on 500 m3 work-live units for artists in Beijing, P.R.China. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur and Ma Liang.
The manifold structure divides the 500 m3 unit into two spaces. One space (above) is primarily used for work. This space has large glazing on two sides, providing plenty of daylight and exposure of exhibits and of the work process. The other space (below) is primarily used for living. This space is enclosed and has only a few windows to provide sufficient privacy.
Project [3.2MB] pdf
2007 - Musicon
Structure plan and process manual for the development of a 25ha site in Roskilde (Denmark) by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson, Esbjörn Kjell and Ma Liang. Commissioned by the Municipality of Roskilde.
The former industrial site is envisioned to become a highly mixed new city district, which will be marked by continuous change and development. The visions were developed in a scenario game in which various stakeholders played the roles of future users.
Structure plan and process manual [7.5MB] pdf 
2006 – CO-EVOLUTION: the collaboration
20 minutes documentary film. Commissioned by DAC | Danish Architecture Centre.
Director: Ulrika Ekberg
Music: Rune Thorsteinsson
Producer: Henrik Valeur and UiD
Movie sample 3 min [6.8MB] 
2005 – Tensta Collective House (honorable mention)
Open international competition for a collective house and a sports center in Tensta, Stockholm, Sweden. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson, Jonas Ruthblad and Søren Chr. Madsen in collaboration with consulting engineer Ole Vanggaard.
Excerpt from the jury’s report: The reasoning, on the part the authors of this proposal, for the modern or future collective house and the relation between the individual and the group is both well-founded and fanciful. Though not entirely easy to decipher - there is an appealing freshness about the building’s sculptural design.
Collective House [4,4MB] pdf 
2005 – Tensta Sport Center
Open international competition for a sports center in Tensta, Stockholm, Sweden. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson, Jonas Ruthblad and Søren Chr. Madsen in collaboration with consulting engineer Ole Vanggaard.
Sport Center [2,5MB] pdf
2005 - Parallel Processing
Planning tools developed by UiD.
We offer instruments for establishing planning processes that engage all of the parties involved throughout the entire sequence. The objective of parallel processing is not only to democratize the planning process, but also to let mutual understanding and inspiration generate results, which are more than the sum of the individual interests.
Planning tools [320K] pdf
2004 – RTL [Real Time Living]
Development project for youth housing by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson and Søren Chr. Madsen in collaboration with consulting engineer Ole Vanggaard.
The RTL flat is defined as the void between 2 deep partition walls, which contain all the tenant’s items, devices and equipment. The walls can be shifted sideways. So, instead of many smaller spaces with specific functions, this dwelling is a singular, dynamic space with a function momentarily determined by the equipment selected from the walls. Pull out the bathtub and the TV set on a Sunday afternoon and the dwelling is a TV bath.
Project [1.1MB] pdf
2004 – Garden Flats 3.2
Development project for mixed housing by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson and Søren Chr. Madsen in collaboration with consulting engineers Ole Vanggaard, Henrik Almegaard and Bo Andersen.
Which dwelling types best comply with contemporary resident demands? Most people prefer detached houses, even though they might find the neighborhood boring! They think the city is more exiting, but the flat in a common high-rise building does not offer much individuality or privacy. Is it possible to imagine a flat in the city with the qualities of the detached house?
Project [1.2MB]
2004 – Garden Flats 3.0
Open competition for a housing estate in Lyngby-Taarbæk, Denmark. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson and Søren Chr Madsen in collaboration with consulting engineers Ole Vanggaard, Henrik Almegaard and Bo Andersen.
All Garden Flats are designed according to the same principles in a limited number of typologies. They can vary in size from the small single flat with a small garden to the large family flat with a large garden. The different locations and combinations of garden and flat make every dwelling unique.
Project [5.0MB] pdf
2004 – The Minority Park
Open competition for the Nørrebro Park in Copenhagen, Denmark. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur and Fredrik Fritzson.
The 21st century park must be adaptable to diverse and changing demands from different groups of users. Thus, the Minority Park is divided into individual pieces with sizes and content that can continuously be altered.
Project [4.3MB] pdf
2003 – SoOs [Self-organizing Office-system]
Development project for office spaces by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson and Søren Chr Madsen in collaboration with consulting engineers Ole Vanggaard and Jeppe Steen Andersen.
Companies are downsizing, expanding, merging ...The constant flux of the market-economy makes flexibility a key requirement for modern office space. Tele-workers occasionally bypassing the company they work for, free agents employed for a brief period of time and employees working in project groups – all increase the need for new dynamic modes of spatial organization. But the modern office space should not only be flexible and adaptable to new forms of organization, it should actively provoke change.
Project [350K]
2003 – unfinished architecture (shortlisted)
Europan 7 competition on urbanized edges in Can Solé, Barcelona, Spain. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson and Søren Chr. Madsen in collaboration with consulting engineers Ole Vanggaard and Jeppe Steen Andersen.
Whether it is a private home or a company office, most people like to personalize their immediate surroundings. Architecture generally makes little room for this, since architects are obsessed with finding the perfect solution. But perhaps architecture does not have to be about perfection.
Garden Flats 1.0 [864K] pdf Puzzle Park [625K] pdf
2003 – 3krP
Conceptual layout of Trekroner Park Road in Roskilde (Denmark) by UiD/Henrik Valeur and Fredrik Fritzson, sub-contractors to Cowi and Park & Vej, Roskilde. Commissioned by the Municipality of Roskilde.
Instead of constructing a new road in stages, of fully paved and elaborated segments, the entire road can be laid out as a simple dirt road structuring the landscape of the future urban development area. Various solutions in terms of lighting, paving and security can be tested concurrently and the road can be gradually upgraded to the required standard, step by step as new residents move in.
Project [864K] pdf
2003 – take-off
Vision for the Harbour of Nyborg by Henrik Valeur. Commissioned by the Danish Arts Foundation.
The flatness of the sea lets your longings travel unhindered.
2002-2003 – 4D+ model
Digital planning tool developed and designed by UiD/Henrik Valeur in collaboration with metascapes.dk. Commissioned by the Municipality of Roskilde.
The planning-process is made public through a web-based 4D+ model. The model consist of a 3D model which is continuously updated (4D) with new proposals, and a discussion forum (+) enabling an ongoing dialogue between planners and users.
2002-2003 – 3krE
Process management for the development of Trekroner Øst in Roskilde (Denmark) by UiD/Henrik Valeur and Dan Stubbergaard in collaboration with the Technical Administration, Roskilde. Commissioned by the Municipality of Roskilde.
Participating architects: COPENHAGENOFFICE, KOLLISION, NORD, PLOT and UiD.
The planning process of Trekroner Øst differs from normal practice in the way that the exterior spaces are being planned prior to the design of the buildings, with the intention that these spaces are to inspire and influence the subsequent building design. The initial project ideas were generated in a workshop, by groups of people representing a broad variety of interests.
Project [560K] pdf and Bedre Byrum
2001 – Sim.CoMa
Interactive planning game for the Öresund Region (Denmark-Sweden) by CoMa/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson and Bernhard Snizek.
2000 – HPFi (invited)
Restricted international competition on the Future Art Institution for Hotel Pro Forma in Copenhagen, Denmark. Proposal by PUSH/Christophe Cornubert, UiD/Henrik Valeur (urban worlds) and Michael Heim (virtual worlds) in collaboration with engineering consultants Ove Arup & Partners and theatre consultant Bill Balou, Los Angeles.
Excerpt from the jury’s report: The Jury appreciated the project’s bold, descriptive and visionary tone, revealing many innovative approaches and stunning imagery.
Project [468K] pdf
2000 – HPFp
Open international prize competition on the Future Art Institution for Hotel Pro Forma in Copenhagen, Denmark. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur and Bent Poulsen.
Diagrammatic proposal for an open environment capable of instant reorganizations. An environment in which the traditional role of the creator, actor and spectator may be confused, and in which facts and fantasies may dissolve into one another.
Project [232K]
1999 – borderline
Open international competition for the city-related harbor areas of Aarhus, Denmark. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Søren Chr. Madsen and Anne Katrine Hornemann.
A reorganization of the infrastructural network, to meet the need for evermore rapid and effective means of communication. Along with a set of individual strategies of territorialization, accelerating the already ongoing process of urban fragmentation, to satisfy the growing demand for individuality.
Project [2.4MB] pdf
1999 – non-city
Open prize competition on the Future of the City. Proposal by Irma+/Henrik Valeur and visual artist Mette Vangsgaard.
Collages visualizing an urban future in which we will be able to sample the trivialities and exceptionalities of everyday life in much the same way as the amateur composes his or her own music on a computer synthesizer keyboard at home.
1999 – Irma+
Proposal for conversion of a vacant industrial building in Rødovre (Denmark) by Henrik Valeur, set designer Thomas Kolding, sculptor Jens Jørgen Poulsen and visual artist Mette Vangsgaard. Commissioned by the Municipality of Rødovre.
Excerpt from article in Politiken by Libbie Fjelstrup: [...] a very ambitious proposal, for the conversion of the Coffee Tower into an art building with film and theatre facilities, studios for lithographic artists, set designers, visual artists and architects, a framework for seminars and workshops and a number of apartments for visiting foreign artists.
Project [626K] pdf
1998 – K98
Open competition for a site south of Køge Harbor, Denmark. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Uwe Wütherich, Ivan Ikhlef and Victor Tenez Ybern.
Detached mega-hybrids, randomly placed in a fluid landscape of surfaces in motion. To be erected on the grounds of the hypothetical synergies expected to develop as a consequence of a constant internal transition of different programs and of various kinds of traffic flows.
Blender [824K] pdf Schizoscape [248K] pdf
1998 – Flex·bo (honorable mention)
Open competition for flexible housing in the Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur in collaboration with consulting engineer Ole Vanggaard. Further developed with Søren Chr. Madsen, 2000.
Excerpt from the jury's report: The jury wishes to commend this proposal, because it has decisively challenged the jury’s comprehension not only in regard to the notion of flexibility but also in regard to what a future form of living could be - both socially, organizationally and strictly architecturally. The overall concept, the treatment of the site as well as the principles of spatial organization and construction conjure up a metropolitan universe of living, aimed at a youth culture.
Project [1.4MB] pdf
1996-1997 – U97 (prize and selected for the final stage)
Open international competition, in 2 stages, for the University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Humanities, Denmark. Proposal by UiD/Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson, Bjarke Ingels, Bent Poulsen and Uwe Wütherich in collaboration with landscape architect Camilla Hjerl and consulting engineers Ole Vanggaard and Buro Happold.
Excerpt from the jury's report (stage one): The project [...] seeks to create a new reality for the university [...] With its numerous layers of identity and use the overall structure can be seen as a place where dialogue and concentration meet.
Extracts from the jury's report (stage two): As a whole, this entry can be seen as a contribution to the discussion of the university of the future and ways in which planning can actively intervene in a building project which is to be developed over an extended period of time.
Project [540K] pdf
1996 – euro96
Europan 4 competition for the revitalization of a residential district in L'Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain. Proposal by Henrik Valeur in collaboration with Blanca Ballesteros and Monica Reyes.
A 300 meter long structure of stacked and interconnected tracks for riding, strolling, cruising and jogging, supporting sliding social programs behind a facade of deformed glazing, veiling and unveiling parts of the many plays within, that one may choose to actively participate in.
1996 – ZOO (honorable mention)
Open competition for a new entrance to the Zoological Garden of Copenhagen, Denmark. Proposal by Henrik Valeur.
Jury's comments: The small - and rather inaccessible - project resembles an elevated landscape, through which a vigorously formed passage is cut out. The proposal is praised for its artistic nerve.
Arkitekten #17, 1996 ISSN 0004-198X
1996 – Garden of Justice
International idea competition, Los Angeles, USA. Proposal by Henrik Valeur.
1996 - X-MAX
Open idea competition, the Danish Arts Foundation. Proposal by Henrik Valeur
A one-person apartment consisting of a void defined by a furniture wall, an items wall, an infrastructural wall and an outdoor/indoor space
1995 – Das Letzte Haus (selected)
International idea competition, Austria. Proposal by Henrik Valeur.
A multitude of spaces for a split personality.
Das Letzte Haus ISBN 3-7757-0583-X
