Djernes & Bell

News: Rubjerg Knude Fyr

Djernes & Bell has been selected to take part in the design competition for Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse 2.0. Over the coming months, four invited teams will develop creative proposals to reimagine the stair and lantern of this extraordinary landmark in the raw coastal landscape.

Hedeskov Barn

A new half-timbered workshop & barn built using Danish-grown, locally crafted timber. It is insulated with wood fibre and topped with a sod roof. The barn stands exactly on the footprint of the former storage building. Reimagined with low-carbon detailing, the barn bridges rural heritage and future practice

Hedeskov Living Lab

The Hedeskov Centre for Regenerative Practice Living Lab is the transformation of a former rural school in Djursland through a tectonic and bio-regional approach, embedding the building within its geological and ecological context. The project embraces the principle of ‘making good,’ prioritizing repair, material circularity, and the integration of hyper-local and up-cycled materials over demolition and new construction. 

Hedeskov Garden Pavilion

This timber-framed folly serves as an extended social space, offering an immediate connection to the surrounding landscape. It is built from Danish-grown timber and crowned with a timber shingle roof, while the floor is made out of recycled brick pavers from author Karen Blixen’s home.

Reyneke Biodynamic Winefarm

The renovation of Reyneke Winery translates the vineyard’s biodynamic ethos into architecture rooted in geology and reuse. Fermentation tanks, invasive timbers, and steel pipes are reincorporated as new building elements, while biochar and wine marc enrich clay renders with antibacterial properties. The result is a winery where production, landscape, and material care form a continuous cycle.

Everything is Transformation

As much as the Hedeskov Center shows what the transformation of a building can look like, it shows us what a building essentially is: a repository of techniques, craft, and memory. 

Mejeriet Torup

Mejeriet i Torup is an adaptation and reuse of a 600 m² former dairy, later artist studio and residence, into a cultural centre for art, performance, and community. The project preserves the industrial and artistic character of the existing building while introducing minimal, carefully placed interventions that enable new functions and connections.

Lollands Ears Land-Art

Lollands Øre is a series of large-scale landscape sculptures that amplify and reflect the site’s existing sounds. Equal part stone-age & sci-fi, the sculptures function as acoustic mirrors, creating zones of intensified or hushed sound, allowing visitors to listen to the slowly rewilding landscape—birdsong, wind and the movement of plants.