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KOLDING
EDUCATIONAL
Location
Kolding, Denmark
Client
2012 - 2014
Type of
assignment
Landscape
Architect
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Strong focus has been on ensuring that the offices and group rooms on each floor is organised with
offices and formal group rooms placed in the periphery. As required, these rooms can be opened
up to the more vibrant study environment on the balconies just as the sliding doors make it possible
to open up the rooms in connection with presentations and meetings. The balconies are based on
individual as well as group environments and are furnished by means of low dividing elements
enabling students to study individually or in groups at work stations on the study balconies, in the
lounge areas or in the enclosed group rooms.
The objective behind the structure of all the floors has been to create cross-fields between
professors, researchers and students while at the same time ensuring available areas for quite
contemplation. By giving all users an errand on all floors, the number of cross-fields is maximised.
The degree of community is up to each student. Everyone, researchers as well as students, has the
opportunity to retire to the periphery or to be social and interact on the study balconies facing the
atrium.
This feeling of community and energy comes off on users and on people's view on the University of
Southern Denmark as a university of the future that assigns a high priority to access to knowledge
and social intercourse. In all ways, the new University of Southern Denmark will appear as an
exciting, international study environment of benefit and inspiration to its users as well as the town of
Kolding.
As regards the design of the building, Henning Larsen Architects has not only minimised the need for
energy for lighting, heating, cooling and ventilation; the architects have also focused on optimising the
passive properties of the building to allow for the shape and construction to contribute to solving
some the tasks that would otherwise be solved by means of energy intensive technologies.