Kildedal nature neighborhood

Kildedal nature neighborhood is a 28,000 m² new development integrated into a lush meadow landscape with sloping topography. The ambitious scheme sets guidelines for 208 mixed housing typologies, an innovative mobility Hub, common facilities and a varied recreational landscape as well as nature-based solutions for water management, increased biodiversity and a high Green Factor. 

NORD Architects is the main consultant on the development of the master plan and architects on a total of 105 of the homes consisting of townhouses, apartment buildings and the Mobility Hub.  

The nature neighborhood is the first phase of the larger urban development of Kildedal City, a joint venture between Pension Danmark and Ballerup Municipality, situated between the open countryside and the dense city, on the edge of Greater Copenhagen, Denmark.  

Kildedal nature neighborhood creates a residential area that emerges from its unique setting while nurturing biodiversity. The neighborhood demonstrates how housing can support biodiversity enhancement, wildlife conservation, and circular resource thinking, while contributing to healthy and socially connected urban development. 

Challenging traditional residential expansion, the project makes nature restoration its foundation rather than an afterthought, working with the unique hilly terrain and distinctive natural areas as crucial design drivers. The development team collaborated with the Danish Society for Nature Conservation during planning to ensure biodiversity protection, while stormwater management systems foster new natural habitats and support local wildlife. 

Shaped by the distinctive glacial landscape, the neighborhood demonstrates how new housing can work with existing natural systems rather than replace them. The landscape forms a gradual transition of urban nature, bog and meadow, offering both recreational meeting places and unkempt nature for residents. 

Apartment buildings provide expansive openness, panoramic views and direct nature access, while townhouses abandon conventional linear rows for smaller, flexible units that adapt to landscape contours and maintain visual and physical connections across the natural environment. Every structure achieves minimum DGNB Gold certification while maintaining carbon footprints below 8 kg CO2 per square meter.