U97 (1) © UiD
Part 1 and 2 of project for international competition in 2 stages on the University of Copenhagen – Faculty of Humanities in the Ørestad, Copenhagen. 9 teams selected for the final stage. Proposal by UiD / Henrik Valeur, Fredrik Fritzson, Bjarke Ingels, Bent Johan Poulsen and Uwe Wuetherich, Barcelona in collaboration with landscape architect Camilla Hjerl, Copenhagen and consulting engineers Ole Vanggaard, Copenhagen and Buro Happold, London, 1997.
The first phase of the new university is a 25.000 m2 structure, meant to initially function as an appendix to the already existing complex and later serve as an integrated part of the new. The organisational principle of this and subsequent phases is that of a transit area, a non-constructed linear space emerging as an opening in the existing labyrinthine structure and as a joining of the components of the new.
Extracts from the jury's report: The project [...] seeks to create a new reality for the university [...] With its numerous layers of identity and use the overall structure can be seen as a place where dialogue and concentration meet.
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