The aim of the project is to develop construction of wood-built houses via a passive house concept that satisfies the need for an individual dwelling of architectural quality maintaining and developing a Nordic idiom that makes these wood-built houses unique and combines a healthy indoor climate with a low consumption of energy.
In recent years, construction of wood-built houses has seen a major development because many research projects and test houses have clarified some well-known problems connected with the construction of wood houses, i.e. fire, moisture transport, sound insulation, and the requirement for higher buildings. Today, there are several methods for construction of wood houses, for example building on site and adjusting the structures directly on the building site, or the use of prefab wood elements. There has been great interest in solid wood elements, among others. Lately, there has been a new development in a concept that could be called the container technology where parts of the building are delivered as ready-made volumes. This could for example be room-sized cassettes or entire dwelling sections. Besides the different ways of constructing a wood house, there are also the options regarding the extent to which the house shall be made from wood. In recent years there has been a development in the constructive field towards building wood houses as a more or less precise version of "modern" Danish/Nordic classical architecture in traditional wood materials. Also within buildings, wood has had a renaissance due to the stricter requirements for the energy consumption in buildings so that buildings shall have low U-values and thermal bridges. Compared to the strength and stiffness properties of wood, its thermal conductivity is very low, which makes it particularly well suited for low-energy structures such as passive houses and houses built as low-energy buildings in classes 1 and 2 according to the new energy appendix to the building regulations (enforced on April 1, 2006). When a wood house is made tight and highly insulated with insignificant thermal bridges, the running expenses can be minimized, and the life-cycle costs for operation and maintenance can also be minimized so that the result is very low life-cycle costs and an environmental load below the average of low-energy houses.
 The project is made in cooperation with Skagen Nordstrand.