Fuglsang Cuts / CEBRA
Architects: CEBRA
Location: Fuglsang Allé, Herning, Denmark
Client: M2 a/s
Project Area: 4,300 sqm
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Mads B. Moller, Thomas Mølvig, CEBRA & Adam Mørk
Architects: CEBRA
Location: Fuglsang Allé, Herning, Denmark
Client: M2 a/s
Project Area: 4,300 sqm
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Mads B. Moller, Thomas Mølvig, CEBRA & Adam Mørk
A few weeks ago, we featured a competition won by 3XN to transform the former freight train halls in Aarhus, Denmark into a new and dynamic cultural center. After the break, several more images and diagrams about this new cultural hub for scenography, visual arts and literature.
Danish firm BIG, in collaboration with Fuglark, Lemming & Eriksson, Sámal Johannesen, Martin E. Leo and KJ Elrad, was awarded with 1st prize on a competition for a new Education Centre in Torshavn, at the Faroe Islands.
The Faroe Islands are an autonomous province of Denmark, and this is the largest educational project in the country’s history, and will house the Faroe Islands Gymnasium, the Torshavns Technical
College and the Business College of Faroe Islands.
The schools are stacked and twisted, generating a central patio which will be the main gathering space of the center. Each of this programatic stripes is then open to the landscape, getting the most out of its location on a hillside with views over the sea, mountains and the harbor. A very simple scheme, which I like a lot as it doesn´t fragment the public space.
But apart from being a whole when seen from the common areas, each school escapes on its own, through the cantilevered volumes that generate a wide array of different views, giving character to each one of the programatic units. I find this reunite/desegregate scheme very good to get a sense of individuality at the center, and have an intense social life at the same time.
More information after the break, and take a special look at the structural diagram.