Danish studios EFFEKT and CF Møller Architects have accomplished the Svendborg Worldwide Maritime Academy in Denmark, utilizing an uncovered concrete body to echo its industrial surrounds.
Overlooking the harbour within the North Quay of the previous port metropolis Svendborg, the 12,500-square-metre centre unites a number of beforehand separate departments of Svendborg Worldwide Maritime Academy (SIMAC), offering mixed research areas for 1,000 college students.
EFFEKT and CF Møller Architects designed a “resilient grid” for the constructing shaped of prefabricated concrete components, which nods to the encircling structure and is split with glass partitions to create educating areas that may be simply modified or tailored in future.
“We set out with the need to create a particularly uncooked and clear grid construction, contextually tailored to its industrious setting whereas able to staging the varsity’s workshop-based content material,” defined CF Møller Architects associate Mads Mandrup.
“[It is] a scaffolding of spatial potentialities, centred round encouraging younger folks to come across and change concepts by means of casual conferences, each inside and out in direction of its environment, activating the entire harbour entrance of Svendborg,” Mandrup added.
SIMAC’s educating areas are organised throughout 5 storeys round a central 20-metre-high atrium. Lined with balconies, this atrium visually connects every stage to a communal seating space on the bottom flooring.
Double-height areas home specialist workshops alongside standard places of work and lecture rooms, with the glass partitions meant to “stimulate communication and casual change” between areas, mentioned the studios.
On the roof is a communal terrace for college students and employees, offering each inner and exterior areas with expansive views out throughout the harbour framed by the hole concrete grid.
Taking cues from the uncooked concrete construction, inside finishes have been saved minimal and unfinished, with uncovered ducting and metal balustrades. Social areas are visually softened by wood particulars, together with an space of tiered seating.
On the constructing’s exterior, panels of glazing and corrugated metallic have been pulled again to precise the concrete construction. In every nook, the grid is reduce away to create sheltered exterior areas for the cafe and canteen, that are open to the general public.
“You see the identical uncooked, minimalist uncovered column-girder construction each from the skin and the within,” mentioned EFFEKT co-founder Sinus Lynge.
“The area basically flows by means of the constructing’s construction, and the intriguing side regarding the concrete components is that SIMAC’s construction is the structure,” he added.
SIMAC is the primary challenge to be accomplished as a part of a wider masterplan for a brand new district in Svendborg, which is about to rework 5.5 hectares of commercial space with new schooling, enterprise and residential buildings.
Elsewhere, EFFEKT additionally just lately accomplished Denmark’s first treetop walkway on the Hamaren Exercise Park in Fyresdal and CF Møller Architects created the headquarters for Lego in Billund with a vibrant yellow atrium.
The pictures is by Rasmus Hjortshøj.
