Why live in a greenhouse ?

Naturhus is a whole concept that consists of three parts:

A Greenhouse
A Corehouse
An Eco-cycle system 

The greenhouse creates a Mediterranean climate around the house with fantastic outdoor spaces. The greenhouse allows for a closed local cycle of plants that absorb the nutrients in the wastewater and turn it into fruits and vegetables.

A naturhus is a vision of a sustainable building that produces food, instead of waste. A house that generates energy instead of just consuming it and finally, introduce reflection and learning about what you eat and what you flush down the drain. What you flush down comes back to your own eco-cycle system and into

the tomatoes you give your children to eat. A sustainable architecture that promotes a truly sustainable lifestyle.

Greenhouse Living develop, design and help you to build naturhus. Many of them are private homes for one family, but the naturhus concept can be applied on many different types and scales of housing, restaurants, spaces for education, and for recreation and wellness.

Why produce food in the cities ?
About 1/3 of households' climate impact comes from the food we eat. To be able to build truly sustainable cities in the future, we cannot just look at energy efficiency, transportation and sustainable construction. We must also find solutions for truly sustainable food production by closing the cycles of water, nutrition and food much more local level. And at the same time break the dependece on artificial fertilizers and pesticides.

We believe that a part of the answer is to greatly increase the proportion of food that produced in cities. Food production and cultivation become visible in people's everyday lives, which contributes strongly to attractive urban environments.

Greenhouse Living develop buildingconcepts for urban foodproduction in close collaboration with the most competent expertise in urban cultivation and energysolutions. We have been involved in a number of researchprojects and developed prize-winning concepts for urban foodproduction including:
modular buildingconcepts, greenhouse technology, urban cultivation technology, sustainable energy solutions, cost calculations and businesscases for urban farming. 

How do we build, truly sustainable cities?
In the future cities, the cycles of water, nutrition and energy will be closed at an extremely local level. Within a neighborhood, a block and sometimes even within a single building. At the same time we get good, nutritious food, radically reduced need for transportation and attractive, human, urban environments with a strong presence of cultivation and food production.

Greenhouse Livings long-term plan is a determined development of the Naturhus concept and various solutions for Urban food production. These are tested in full scale in reality through various completed construction projects. We see them as “components” that can then be put together and be implemented on an urban scale.

Alongside with developing the eco-cyclefriendly building-components we also need a new understanding about the planningstrategys that is required. We believe we need to put together teams with a a lot more interdisciplinary knowledge to achieve this.  

Together with our various competent partners, we aim to take many small steps towards the truly sustainable eco-cycle Cities of the future.