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Prarthana Prakash

How a Copenhagen housing project by a $23 billion Novo-backed firm is rethinking big-city challenges like loneliness and access to sunlight

elderly people around a table (Credit: COURTESY OF URBAN PARTNERS)

In Copenhagen’s futuristic UN17 Village, every structure and design has a reason for looking and feeling a certain way. 

At first glance, its five buildings might look like uneven life-size Lego bricks. But their staggered position maximizes residents' access to sunlight, thanks to an AI tool. Each building is also a world of its own with a mix of demographics and a community manager tasked with bringing the community together for a “longer, healthier, and better” life.

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