The “(UN)SCHOOL COPENHAGEN is a place designed for individuals to intuitively exercise their self-determinedness through constantly facing choices and attractions in terms of permeability, illumination, ventilation, materiality, etc. rather than simply feeding knowledge to students from a book without arousing their autonomy.
With aforementioned intention in mind, our project formalistically inherited the diversified spatiality of the chronicled Viking hubs, such qualities and ideas have been embodied chiefly via the distinctive ‘A’ frames with interlocking gestures, and enriched by carved-out voids (internal courtyards). Visual connections with the idyllic site of Hekla Park are optimised with linkage (bridges and platform) between volumes.
Individual’s daily path may vary greatly by virtue of the exposure to multiple dualist pairs of light and shadow, nature and artificial, interior and exterior, etc. Throughout their daily activities, the dynamic surroundings drive them into different events and help develop their subconscious conceptualisations of ideas. In addition, ‘streets’ are introduced in between masses for potential temporary creation (knowledge reinterpretation) by students, inspired by the ‘Adventure Playground’ proposed by Carl Theodor Sørensen, a Danish landscape architect.
Modular construction approach encourages users to shape and adjust the span and fenestration of the building suchlike the way they shape their educational policy with time. Expansion, contraction or fragmentation are achievable with designed modularity and we aspire to offer resilience for hopefully long-lived (UN)SCHOOL COPENHAGEN.