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WELCOME / DANISH ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN TO IMPROVE PLAY AND LEARNING/ PRESS TOUR IN DENMARK AUGUST 27-29, 2014
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A DANISH PERSPECTIVE / FEW BUILDINGS IN OUR LIVES HAVE SUCH AN EMOTIONAL IMPACT AS OUR SCHOOLS. ONLY OUR CHILDHOOD HOMES BRING BACK STRONGER MEMORIES. Danish architecture and design have a long tradition of creating physical environments for education that greatly impact the learning experience by supporting and securing optimum learning conditions. We don’t design schools, rather learning environments and playful spaces. If we succeed in planning the schools of the future to support modern educational principles and practices, new school buildings can become launching pads for a giant leap forward in the quality of the entire nation. Likewise, Danish design of play experiences is characterized by high quality and well thought through solutions that support the development of competences such as children’s creative, motor and social skills – as well as playing, just for the sake of playing. In recent years Danish architects and designers have designed some very adventurous and daring spaces for learning – spaces where teaching, design and architecture interlink and fruitfully support each other. It is our pleasure to invite you to Denmark to see for yourself how well-designed buildings and spaces can become “the third teacher”. Yours sincerely Jacob Bundsgaard – Mayor of Aarhus
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CITIES TO VISIT BILLUND Billund is the Capital of Children and home to the LEGO Group, Legoland and Lalandia. If you want to understand the relationship between play and learning, you have to visit Billund, as this is the place where they combine world-leading insights into play and learning with city development. KOLDING Kolding is a university city, the epicentre of the regional design cluster and home to one of Europe’s largest design campuses. The University of Southern Denmark is just finalising building their new design campus in Kolding – a state of the art learning facility. AARHUS Aarhus, European Capital of Culture in 2017, is the second largest city in Denmark and is home to clusters of architecture and design. Aarhus is known for its comprehensive urban development, which focuses on sustainability in more than one sense: social, economic, cultural and resource-optimised factors are all taken into consideration in every urban initiative, especially when it comes to building or modernising educational facilities – to improve play and learning. This is supported by the government-subsidized project “Space for Play and Learning”. Finally Aarhus is nominated by The Academy of Urbanism to the European City of the Year Award: www.academyofurbanism. org.uk/assessment-dates-urbanism-awards-2015/
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PROGRAMME 10 am – 2.15 pm 2.30 – 3 pm 3 – 3.30 pm 3.30 – 4.15 pm 4.15 – 5 pm 5 – 5.30 pm 5.45 – 6.30 pm 6.45 – 7.30 pm 7.30 – 8 pm 8 pm 9.10 – 10.15 am 10.15 – 10.45 am 10.45 – 11.30 am 11.30 am – 12 pm 12 – 1 pm 1 – 1.30 pm 1.30 – 2 pm 2 – 2.40 pm 2.40 – 3.10 pm 3.20 – 3.50 pm 4.15 – 6.30 pm 6.45 – 7.30 pm 7.30 pm – 9 – 11 am 11.15 am – 12 pm 12 – 1 pm 1.15 – 2 pm 2.20 – 2.50 pm 4 – 6 pm 6 – 6.30 pm 6.30 – 7 pm
27 August 2014 Check in, Legoland (optional guided tour), Lunch Introduction to Capital of Children by chairman of Children and Culture committee, Klara Lyskjær Noer, City of Billund Presentation of the Hub for Play and Learning Guided tour of the International School of Billund Bus to Kolding – Presentation of press visit organisers: and+, DANSKE ARK and DANISH Guided tour of design kindergarten SanseSlottet by CEBRA Hotel check in – Koldingfjord Guided tour of University of Southern Denmark and presentation by Henning Larsen Architects Guided tour of Koldingfjord Hotel by CEO Peder Madsen Dinner 28 August 2014 Bus to Tjørring – Metanarrative on The Danish welfare model and school system Guided tour of Tjørring School by Møller & Grønborg Bus to Silkeborg – time for interviews Guided tour of the Creative School by Årstiderne Arkitekter Lunch Bus to Ry – Presentation of Pulsparken by CEBRA. Guided tour of Pulsparken by CEBRA and Kildebjerg Ry Bus to Aarhus – time for interviews Guided tour of Motorikhallen by C.F. Møller Guided tour of Egaa Gymnasium by CUBO Hotel check in – Comwell, Aarhus City Tower Guided tour of ARoS by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Dinner at Hærværk 29 August 2014 Curated reception, introduction by Mayor Jacob Bundsgaard, City of Aarhus Guided tour of the city area Aarhus K by Sleth Lunch at Godsbanen Guided tour of DOKK1 by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects + DOKK1 Guided tour of Kragelund School by Gpp Architects and presentation of RULL by The City of Aarhus Aarhus Festival Galla Reception with HM The Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II at the City Hall Visit at CENTRALPARKEN, Aarhus Festival/Architect Kristine Jensens Tegnestue Visit at PLADSEN, Aarhus Festival/SCHØNHERR
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CITY / BILLUND CAPITAL OF CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BILLUND – CITY / KOLDING UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK BY HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS SANSESLOTTET BY CEBRA HOTEL KOLDINGFJORD HUB FOR PLAY AND LEARNING – CITY / TJØRRING TJØRRING SCHOOL BY MØLLER & GRØNBORG – CITY / SILKEBORG CREATIVE SCHOOL BY ÅRSTIDERNE ARKITEKTER – CITY / RY PULSPARKEN BY CEBRA – CITY / AARHUS DOKK1 BY SCHMIDT HAMMER LASSEN ARoS BY SCHMIDT HAMMER LASSEN MOTORIKHALLEN BY C.F. MØLLER KRAGELUND SCHOOL BY GPP ARCHITECTS THE CITY AREA AARHUS K BY SLETH HOTEL COMWELL GODSBANEN RULL EGAA SECONDARY SCHOOL BY CUBO ARCHITECTS
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AARHUS CITY TOWER Hotel and office spaces in a 23-storey, low-energy building class 2015, high-rise. Aarhus City Tower is a typical development project. It is developed in cooperation with KPC and later on sold to the owner, Hans Lorenzen. Arkitema Architects has gathered the threads between Comwell, Deloitte and Bech Bruun in close collaboration with KPC. The Aarhus City Tower in Værkmestergade marks the entrance to a new urban area in Aarhus called The Central Workshops. The high-rise contains a hotel with 240 rooms, conference facilities for 1,000 people and office spaces. The high-rise becomes a low-energy building class 2015 by integrating a solar cell panel on the entire southern facade and on parts of the roof. The base has three functions: It links together the vertical parts of the building with the horizontal parts. At the same time it evens out the difference in level on the ground and also it works as a social focal of the whole composition. Aarhus City Tower is designed as two slender dials organized around a light and transparent building. The northern dial is displaced from the southern. Also it is a bit higher to strengthen the slender and dynamic expression. From a distance, the two slender dials will provide Aarhus an elegant addition to the city skyline.
ARKITEMA ARCHITECTS Arkitema Architects’ architecture is deeply rooted in the Scandinavian architectural tradition. Our architecture is based on a desire to meet and improve basic human needs. Our focus is on aesthetics, functionality and sustainability – also we have a natural interest in social responsibility. Our idiom is Nordic; we are concerned with the location, the daylight and the changing of the seasons. We work with simplicity in the choice of materials as well as good and functional solutions. Moreover, all of our employees are dedicated people who work to ensure an aesthetic, useful and sustainable architecture - we take responsibility for you and your building. Arkitema Architects was founded in Aarhus in 1969. Today Arkitema Architects is one of the largest architectural companies in Scandinavia with 11 Danish partners, a Swedish partner and 300 employees working in our offices in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Oslo, Stockholm and Malmö.
AARHUS GYMNASIUM AND MOTOR SKILLS HALL The children of Aarhus now have a unique hall to romp in. Aarhus Gymnastics and Motor Skills Hall, designed by C.F. Møller Architects, combines the best of the sports hall and playground and is the only one of its kind in Denmark - probably worldwide. The Motor Skills Hall is an extension of the Aarhus Gymnastics and Trampoline Hall. The idea of the approximately 1.200 m2 of activity landscape is to invite and motivate children aged three to ten to develop motor skills while having fun playing. Possible future users of the hall are sporting associations, schools, youth centres, kindergartens, families etc. Normally, when designing a traditional sports hall, the layout is strictly guided by fixed requirements - such as court sizes, heights and widths. Here the challenge has been to creatively re-think the concept of sports and play, and create something completely unique. A sculpturally-formed climbing frame, called the seashell, rises in the middle of the hall. With its many sloping surfaces, holes and hanging ropes it calls to be investigated by curious boys and girls - the bravest of them can climb all the way to the top, three storeys up right under the ceiling, where a small glass lookout-tower discloses a beautiful view of Aarhus Bay and the nearby Mols hills. From the outside, the hall has the appearance of a raw concrete shell, with large, slanting windows and stairways, which lend transparency and dynamics to the facade.
C.F. MØLLER C.F. Møller is one of Scandinavia’s oldest and largest architectural practices. Our award-winning work involves a wide range of expertise that covers all architectural services, landscape architecture, product design, healthcare planning and management advice on user consultation, change management, space planning, logistics, client consultancy and organisational development. Simplicity, clarity and unpretentiousness, the ideals that have guided our work since the practice was established in 1924, are continually re-interpreted to suit individual projects, always site-specific and based on international trends and regional characteristics. C.F. Møller regard environmental concerns, resource-consciousness, healthy project finances, social responsibility and good craftsmanship as essential elements in our work, and this holistic view is fundamental to all our projects, all the way from master plans to the design.
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SanseSlottet (“the castle of senses”) is what the municipality calls a design kindergarten. It was the first project in a series of themed day-care centres that specialize in different areas, such as the arts and sports. The overall aim is to offer children and parents different opportunities for day-care and to create new day-care centres with strong identities. The special theme for SanseSlottet revolves around design, architecture and the visual arts. We wanted to clearly indicate to the children – and potential designers and artists of the future – that creativity is partly about breaking rules and seeking solutions beyond the ordinary. To do this, we designed a building that demonstratively contrasts with the traditional pitched roof house, which we see in typical children’s drawings. Instead, SanseSlottet has a number of pointy skylights that break away from an undulating base. It has very few right angles and most corners are gently rounded.
CEBRA THE PULSE PARK The aim of The Pulse Park was to create optimal conditions for physical activity and play, which form an integral part of the landscape, the area’s additional leisure activities and the residential area itself. The Pulse Park design is based on a user involvement process, which included residents, clubs and companies from Kildebjerg Ry and resulted in three zones with the following properties: The Pulse Zone is a literal bulge on the existing paths as it prompts horizontal movement and primarily addresses runners, skaters and mountain bikers, who use the network of paths and tracks around Kildebjerg Ry for exercise. The Play Zone invites to both play and physical exercise in a forest of different functions that relate to organised as well as freestyle activities. This forest is made up from three concentric circles. The centre is primarily for play, climbing and exercise in large tree-like elements. The intermediate circle is for outdoor fitness. The outermost circle consists of a recreational zone for social activities and gives room for meeting, relaxing, picnicking etc. close to a fireplace. The Zen Zone complements these active zones and provides a more contemplative space, all about relaxation and activating all your senses.
CEBRA is a Danish architecture and design practice, which was founded in 2001 by architects Mikkel Frost, Carsten Primdahl and Kolja Nielsen and currently employs an international and multidisciplinary staff of 35. CEBRA’s ideology is very project related. The conditions and frameworks that we operate within constantly change. That is why our ideology is very spacious - it mutates and adapts according to circumstances, yet always remains relevant and content-driven. Despite the ideological diversity, there is a signature in CEBRA’s architecture - a certain way of doing things in terms of design and space, an aesthetic preference that unites the variety of our projects. CEBRA works intensively with the design of future spaces for education, learning, play and physical exercise - developing this field into one of the company’s core areas over the years.
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INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BILLUND The International School of Billund provides creative, high-quality academic programmes to students from 3 to 16 years. The programmes are rooted in the recognised International Baccalaureate curriculum framework, Danish learning traditions as well as the creative and playful approach of the LEGO Group. Children are open-minded, curious and innovative. They are not afraid to experiment. These abilities are nurtured at the school to help students reach their full potential. Critical thinking, collaboration, dialogue and play are embedded in the learning philosophy. It is the school’s belief that learning through play strengthens children’s ability to think creatively, to be effective problem solvers and to deal with abstract and complex challenges. In June 2014, the International School of Billund was officially accepted as a candidate school for the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme. The school is pursuing authorisation as an IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that the International School of Billund believes is important for our students.
CAPITAL OF CHILDREN Imagine a unique public-private partnership between a local authority and a corporate foundation with a shared ambition to develop a town in which learning through play is evident in everything and develops children’s creativity and unique potential. That is precisely what is happening in the small Danish town of Billund, headquarters of the LEGO Group since 1932. Together, the LEGO Foundation and Billund Municipality work on making Billund the Capital of Children. The work on realizing this vision began in 2012 rooted in four key areas: Establish and incorporate learning through play as the focal point throughout Billund, establish innovative partnerships within play, learning and creativity, develop the town to visibly manifest Billund as the Capital of Children and create a global knowledge centre focusing on play, learning and creativity.
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EGÅ GYMNASIUM (SECONDARY SCHOOL) The Forum is the school’s most important room. This ‘forum for knowledge sharing’ is defined by a large circular shape as the core and centre point of the building. The classrooms are placed as ‘wings’ around the Forum and the sports hall is an integral part of the structure, partially open towards the centre zone and the landscape to the north. Photo credits: Ole Hein and Thomas Mølvig
CUBO ARKITEKTER A/S Cubo Arkitekter A/S was founded in Aarhus in 1992 and the practice has achieved broad recognition through works for educational, housing, cultural and religious projects as well as site planning for both urban and residential areas. Participation in competitions acts as an essential driving force in the practice’s development and strategy. Competitions demand innovative thinking and a strongly creative approach, against the background of extensive experience and expertise. The practice is keen both to take advantage of the technological possibilities available today and to ensure that the fine traditions of craftsmanship – as an integral part of Danish architectural history – finds their expression in new building design. In 2011 Cubo received Scandinavia’s largest Architectural Award ‘Nykredits Arkitekturpris’ for “A distinguished, holistic portfolio of buildings in Danish architecture”.
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KRAGELUND SCHOOL The plan of the school can easily be compared to the layout of a city: a spacious structure consisting of streets, squares and alleys in which the different functions are connect to. The school is designed with the main intention: to achieve an efficient and harmonious building. The heart of the facility, ‘the school square’, provides a focal point around which the various functions of the buildings are located. The school is arranged with the intention of stimulating children’s imagination. There are both spaces for the assembly of large groups of children as well as spaces for small groups and individual activities. The school creates a framework to help students develop an open awareness, imagination and desire to learn. The project is predisposed out of a desire to create as much flexibility and multi-use spaces as possible. At the same time, the building’s functions are divided up, so that the different sub-areas are well defined and possible to separate. The intention is that each child can develop individually. The educational training is planned, so that each child receives the specific educational training, in which he or she receives the most benefit from. At the same time a foundation for unity is created, the shared experiences and being together, creating additional demands on the physical environment.
GPP ARCHITECTS GPP Architects A/S is an ambitious architectural firm whose goals and objectives are to build beautiful and empathetic architecture in all areas of architecture. When we work, we seek clear and simple solutions where the client gets - not just what he has claimed and desired - but also what he had not dreamed of being able to get. The client’s wishes are in the center, and we view ourselves as consultants in collaboration with the client. We translate the needs, requirements and desires for what is possible at the given site and context. Over the years we have won numerous competitions both in Denmark and in our neighboring countries. At constant participation in competitions we develop our own perception of architecture, thus strengthening our current architectural profile.
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SDU CAMPUS KOLDING With its triangular shape, Campus Kolding will create a significant new landmark in Kolding. Inside in the five-storey-high atrium, the displaced position of the staircases and access balconies creates a dynamic space where the triangular shape is repeated in a continuous variety of positions up through the different floors. The activities open up towards the town so that the campus plaza and the interior academic universe become one interconnected urban space with a green park at the back and a common recreational town plaza at the front. SDU Campus Kolding is the first university building in Denmark to fulfil the strong demands for energy consumption described in the building regulations 2015. Photo credits / Jens Lindhe
HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS Henning Larsen Architects is Denmark’s most international architecture company. Founded by Henning Larsen in 1959, the company today employs approximately 250 people and has offices in Copenhagen, Oslo, Munich, Istanbul, Riyadh, Hong Kong and the Faroe Islands. Henning Larsen Architects is behind a number of different educational buildings – from universities and upper secondary schools to primary schools and daycare institutions. The most well known projects in Scandinavia include Roskilde University, the IT University in Ørestad, Copenhagen and Frederiksberg Upper Secondary School. Of the most recently completed, USCJ Campus Roskilde, opened in August 2013, and the SDU Campus Kolding opens for students in September 2014.
Because of changing daylight throughout the course of the day and year, Campus Kolding is fitted with dynamic solar shading, which adjusts to the specific climate conditions and user patterns and provides optimal daylight and a comfortable indoor climate. When the shutters are closed, they lie flat along the façade, while they protrude from the façade when half-open or entirely open and provide the building with a very expressive appearance. German artist Tobias Rehberger has created the decorative motifs for Campus Kolding. The light installations are centred on ‘time’ as a theme. They appear as building-integrated clocks on the façade, by the auditorium and in classrooms.
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Henning Larsen Architects has a thorough knowledge of the many aspects of building − from consultancy and sketch proposal to detailed design, expert supervision and construction management.
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HOTEL KOLDINGFJORD
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Hotel Koldingfjord’s original name was “Julemærkesanatoriet”, a sanatorium for children, funded through christmas stamps. Postmaster Einar Holbøll, had the idea of selling Christmas seals. The idea was that everyone, rich as well as poor, should be involved in helping weak and ill children. When people sent Christmas cards to each other, they gave 2 ører extra for a Christmas seal, which was glued onto the envelope next to the stamp. In so doing, people contributed to financing the construction of several sanatoriums. From 1911 to 1960, the buildings functioned as a sanatorium for children with tuberculosis and thus became an important piece in the battle against the feared and widespread disease. After 1960, the buildings were taken over by Åndsvageforsorgen (The Care of Mentally Disabled) in Vejle County. From 1983 to 1987, the majority of the buildings stood empty until Sygeplejerskernes Ejendoms Aktieselskab acquired the buildings with a view to building a modern hotel and conference centre. From 1988 to 1990, the listed buildings were renovated and rebuilt. Internally, the property has gone through a total renovation and modernisation and it has been equipped with everything that is part of a modern hotel and conference centre. On 1 May 1990, the work was completed and the property opened under the name, Hotel Koldingfjord.
FINN JUHL FURNITURE
LOUISEHØJ
The furniture at Louisehøj was designed by the famous Danish furniture architect, Finn Juhl in the 1940’s and 1950’s. The sofas and chairs were initially put into production after Hotel Koldingfjord, in cooperation with the furniture manufacturer, One Collection, found the original Finn Juhl drawings at The Danish Museum of Art & Design.
In September 2009, the restoration of the 100year old chief physician’s residence, Louisehøj near Hotel Koldingfjord was finished. The beautiful, old villa with a stunning view over the fjord is today furnished with, among other things, an entirely new type of meeting facility and with Louisehøj, Hotel Koldingfjord now has a gem that is rarely found other places in Denmark. Through its 100-year history, the elegant villa has led a somewhat turbulent life, and in September 2009, Hotel Koldingfjord was ready to open the house for exclusive events after it has been through careful restoration from the cellar to the attic.
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HUB FOR PLAY AND LEARNING Like an alphabet, design of play* consists of different elements that jointly form the raw material necessary to create high-quality playing experiences. Superior quality is a vital rallying point for Danish design of play – Danish companies are ambitious and un-compromising in their evaluation of their own efforts – “O n l y t h e b e s t i s g o o d e n o u g h.”* But how do you define ‘the best’ and is it possi¬ble to pinpoint certain characteristics of design of play and playing experiences in a Danish con¬text? This is the question that Hub for Design & Play at the Kolding School of Design, the LEGO Foundation, and Capital of Children in Billund, Denmark, are attempting to answer. In May 2013 an open study was launched with the purpose of unveiling a deeper understand¬ing of the factors that characterise the Danish approach to design of play. In collaboration with the companies ABCity, DR Ramasjang, Nicolaj for børn, LEGO Future Lab, PlayAlive, Plus-Plus, Uniqa, Four Esses, Winther, and Gonge HUB has generated and collected new insights from the industry’s own manufacturers. In addition, Jens Martin Steenhold, toy tester, Martin Rauff, storyteller, and Carsten Jessen, play researcher, have contributed their knowledge and perspec¬tives to the study. Participation in conferences, toy conventions and workshops at home and abroad has provided further insight. Further¬more, HUB was a co-organiser of DesignCamp 2013, ”Design to Play / Play to Design” at the Kolding School of Design. Today, one year after the study started, all the data have been collected in a number of key insights and is available as a Danish DNA for design of play.
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TJØRRING SCHOOL AND INSTITUTION As a part of the establishment of New Tjørring School and Institutions, Møller & Grønborg has created an ambitious play and learning landscape which has been awarded the title of: Herning Kommunes Building Award 2012. The intention has been to create a new and alternative center for Play and Learning consisting of a variety of inspiring and full quality outdoor spaces that can be included as a learning room and used by the local community. The different types of landscape spaces create a concentrated scenic playground with among other elements a water play area, hills and urban areas for skaters. The landscape gives the users varying experiences, accommodation and activities suitable for a large range of age groups. The scale of the landscape is graduated, so it is largest at a distance, and smaller and more intimate closer to the building. The building’s local areas are designed as landscape niches which encourage children to stay and play. Simultaneously, a calmer area is created close to the building by moving more boisterous activities and large engagements further out in the landscape.
MØLLER & GRØNBORG Møller & Grønborg is an independent Danish architecture firm with professional experience of more than 50 years. In addition to Denmark, the company has worked in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Latvia and China, Middle East, Far East and in the Baltic Countries. Our clients come from within both the public and private sector. Within the public sector, Møller & Grønborg has worked as consultants for all levels of physical planning, spanning from the National Government, to municipalities on regional and local levels. Møller & Grønborg is specialized in landscape- and urban planning, placing emphasis on visual qualities of the environment. We are known for aesthetic treatment of large-scale projects, aiming to achieve visual harmony in the landscape and urban areas. More traditional landscape projects in our portfolio include design of recreational areas, parks, streets, squares etc. Møller & Grønborg is managed by a group of owners, which have the overall responsibility for the quality of the products. Experienced architects and technicians are responsible for quality, day to day execution of projects and ensuring good communication.
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RULL Aarhus City Council decided back in 2007 to future-proof spaces for play and learning in schools, day-care facilities and after school centres. The so-called RULL programme is to ensure that the physical settings in schools, daycare facilities and after school centres are maintained, modernised and extended, and also changed into exciting and future-proof learning spaces. RULL is an acronym based on the Danish concept of Rum til Leg og LÌring (Spaces for Play and Learning), a programme into which the City of Aarhus is investing pedagogical and technical modernisation of daycare facilities, schools and after school centres. A RULL process is divided into three phases: Vision, analysis and design, implementation, occupancy and assessment. The first vision for the area is defined on the basis of an extensive inclusion process that involves teachers, educators and management. This is followed by the analysis and design phase, during which concrete initiatives for the areas are selected and processed. The outcome is a pedagogical programme catalogue that describes a pedagogical, physical and organisational master plan for the project. Each project has a project management group, which is to prioritise based on the user inclusion, deciding what is to be included in the pedagogical programme catalogue. The catalogue consti-tutes a sub-element in the construction programme, forming the background for an occupancy pro-cess when the construction is nearing its end. Based on the vision for and the concept of the construction project, an assessment is conducted in collaboration between management, staff and the affected children. The purpose of this is to strengthen the development of pedagogics, organisation and the physical settings and the interplay with the same, as well as to document and render visible experience that can qualify and inspire other development projects. The RULL flower The RULL flower shows the connection between pedagogical practice, physical settings and the institution’s organisation. The sum of an equal balance of the three objects forms the learning environment.
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DOKK1
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DOKK1 in Aarhus will be Scandinavia’s largest public library. It will be a place of exchange and exploration, and it represents a new generation of modern hybrid libraries. DOKK1 is a library of the future. As such, it is not a temple for storage of books, but a public place of sharing and experiencing. It is a social platform for learning and meeting, offering myriads of ways to access knowledge – an open space between home and work. DOKK1 gives access, both physically and metaphorically, by having completely open façades with a 360-degree view to the city, creating a conscious connection between outside and inside. The leading idea is a covered urban space. A large heptagonal slice hovers above a glazed prism, which is resting on a square of ice flake-shaped stairs fanning out to the edge of the sea. The ice flakes create wide plateaus and accommodate recreational activities and outdoor events. DOKK1 will be done by late 2014 and open in early 2015.
SCHMIDT HAMMER LASSEN ARCHITECTS With more than 25 years of experience, schmidt hammer lassen architects is one of Scandinavia’s most recognised, award-winning architectural practices committed to innovative and sustainable design. The practice has offices located in Aarhus, Copenhagen, London, Shanghai and Singapore. The practice is deeply rooted in the Scandinavian architectural traditions based on democracy, welfare, aesthetics, light, sustainability and social responsibility. The practice has a distinguished track record as designers of high-profile cultural buildings, such as libraries and educational complexes. Recent projects include the University of Aberdeen New Library in Scotland, The Crystal in Copenhagen, and the City of Westminster College in London. In Scandinavia, schmidt hammer lassen architects is best known for the prestigious extension to the Royal Library – The Black Diamond, the ARoS Aarhus Museum of Art and the Cultural Centre of Greenland in Nuuk.
ARoS, AARHUS MUSEUM OF MODERN ART This striking art museum is the cultural centrepiece of Aarhus, Denmark’s second largest city. The museum is designed specifically to welcome visitors, straddling a public thoroughfare that transforms the building into a bridge linking two of the city’s cultural centres. This public route through the museum provides a vital connection with the network of streets beyond, encouraging dynamic interplay between the museum and everyday life. In contrast to the apparent severity of the exterior, the dazzling white interior, flooded with daylight, presents a sequence of highly organic sweeping curves that define the different levels of the building. The interior curving walkway divides the museum into two distinct wings: the exhibition wing with its gallery spaces and the service wing housing a restaurant, administration offices, conservation area, workshops, storerooms and a library.
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THE CREATIVE SCHOOL This project is based on a competition about the area of Bindslevs Square in the middle of Silkeborg. Årstiderne Architets won the competition by designing a school inspired by the surrounding saddle roof buildings, particularly in the serrated saddle roof gable of the library, which lies just across the street from The Creative School. The building is made in steel, glass, and plastic. That way the building adapts to the place through the design – creating an identity of its own by way of the material. Behind the saddle roof form of the building, a simple and rational building structure lies hidden. The building is erected as a light steel structure. The fronts are clad in polycarbonate boards in the ground floor. These are semi-transparent. The ground floor front as well as the roof is clad in aluminium coffers. The materials give the building a sense of informality and workshop atmosphere, thus showing on the outside the activities which characterizes the activities on the inside of The Creative School.
ÅRSTIDERNE ARCHITECTS Årstiderne (times of the year, red.) Architects is one of the three biggest architectural companies in Denmark. We have six offices in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Bangladesh. We employ 200 people and we’ve existed for almost 30 years. Our approach to architecture is the Scandinavian design tradition, which means we create architecture based on sustainable design, light, aesthetics, functionality, social responsibility and financial responsibility. We focus on the process of developing projects and we believe our knowledge and professional creativity increase the value of the projects that we’re engaged in. We work in an interdisciplinary way with architecture, design, graphics, urban planning, landscaping, sustainability and advising on client design. This means, we have in-house competence to follow through on each project. Furthermore, we are some of the most experienced architects in Scandinavia when it comes to developing 3D constructive design.
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C.F. MØLLER
CEBRA
Europaplads 2, 11. 8000 Aarhus C, Danmark +45 87 30 53 00 cfmoller@cfmoller.com www.cfmoller.com
Vesterbro Torv 1-3, 2.sal 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark +45 87 30 34 39 cebra@cebra.info cebraarchitecture.dk
CAPITAL OF CHILDREN
CUBO ARKITEKTER A/S
GPP ARCHITECTS A/S
Gammelbro 38, 7190 Billund, Denmark +45 52 19 62 01 info@capitalofchildren.com www.capitalofchildren.com
Fredriksgade 72B 8000 Aarhus, Denmark +45 86 93 94 00 cubo@cubo.dk www.cubo.dk
Grønnegade 68 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark +45 70 22 42 11 gpp@gpp.dk www.gpp.dk
HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS
HOTEL KOLDINGFJORD
HUB FOR PLAY AND LEARNING
Fjordvej 154 6000 Kolding, Denmark +45 75 51 00 00 hotel@koldingfjord.dk www.koldingfjord.dk
Aagade 10 6000 Kolding, Denmark + 45 41 24 51 99 kaf@dskd.dk www.ddai.dk/service/design-play
RULL
SCHMIDT HAMMER LASSEN ARCHITECTS
Frederiksgade 32 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark +45 70 11 70 11 info@arkitema.dk www.arkitema.dk
Vesterbrogade 76 1620 Copenhagen V, Denmark +45 82 33 30 00 mail@henninglarsen.com www.henninglarsen.com
MØLLER & GRØNBORG Europaplads, Mindegade 13,3 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark +45 86 20 32 00 klj@mgarkitekter.dk www.mgarkitekter.dk
ÅRSTIDERNE ARCHITECTS Papirfabrikken 24 8600 Silkeborg, Denmark +45 70 24 10 00 ak@aarstiderne.dk www.aarstiderne.dk
Grøndalsvej 2 8260 Viby J, Denmark +45 30 71 56 68 lvol@aarhus.dk www.aarhus.dk/RULL
SCHØNHERR A/S Klosterport 4A, 1. sal 8000 Århus C, Denmark +45 86 18 69 00 ts@schonherr.dk www.Schonherr.dk
Aaboulevarden 37, PO box 5117 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark +45 86 20 19 00 info@shl.dk www.shl.dk
ARCHITECT KRISTINE JENSENS TEGNESTUE Grønnegade 93D 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark +45 86 18 96 34 info@kristinejensen.dk www.kristinejensen.dk
Danish Design & Architecture Initiative
www.ddai.dk
WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SHOWING YOU AROUND/ Kind regards
DANISH
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Danish Design and Architecture Initiative Contact / Ida Feltendahl Frimer ida@ddai.dk +45 23 23 99 58 The Danish Design & Architecture Initiative is a consortium that aims to brand and promote Denmark internationally as a country of design and architecture for the purpose of increasing trade and tourism, expanding markets and creating wide-ranging interest in the Danish way of thinking and doing design and architecture. The initiative has been commissioned by the Ministry of Business and Growth, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture.
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Centre for Architecture, New Technology and Design Contact / Carina Serritzlew carina.serritzlew@aarch.dk +45 89 36 01 79 and+ is an important business partner and growth stimulator that works to ensure exposure of creative businesses within architecture, new technology and design. and+ aims to increase growth of business-based, creative partnership and innovation, which gives rise to new companies and growth within the creative industries.
DANSKE ARK
Danish Association of Architectural Firms Contact / Peter Theibel pt@danskeark.dk +45 32 83 05 10 Danish Association of Architectural Firms is the Danish business association of private firms of consulting architects. The association has approximately 800 members in Denmark. In total the firms employ around 5.000 graduate architects, constructing architects and other technical and administrative employees. Nearly all private Danish architectural companies are members of DANSKE ARK. The size of the member firms ranges from single-person firms to Denmark’s largest architectural firms with more than 325 employees in Denmark and abroad.
Danish Design & Architecture Initiative
DANISH IS PLAYING FOR FUN
www.ddai.dk