Niels Bohr Science Park (2010)
Schmidt Hammer Lassen - SHL
Facts:
Architect
schmidt hammer lassen architects
Client
The Danish University and Property Agency in cooperation with Copenhagen University
Area
45,000 m2
Competition
2010, restricted international competition
Status
Competition proposal
Landscape architect
Nørgaard & Holscher
Engineer
Moe & Brødsgaard
Consultant
Andy Horsewell
Architects
DR CUH2A
Jørn Langvad Arkitekter
Description:
Niels Bohr Science Park (NBSP) in central Copenhagen is part of an urban development aimed at boosting the scientific and research environment of Copenhagen University. The NBSP provides a framework that enables people to meet in search of answers, exchange knowledge, share experiences and together develop and refine not only natural science but also each other and all of us. As a result, the NBSP will be open, visible and accessible to the city, students, researchers and businesses and at the same time provide a sheltered, intimate and secure environment.
The Science Park will be situated at the Nørre Campus already hosting other science faculties and the national university hospital. NBSP will be built in two stages placed on each side of the Jagtvej street, which runs through Nørre Campus.
This division has sparked the creation of a public pathway – the 'rambla' – that crosses under the Jagtvej to connect the two sites. The rambla is a distinct and easily perceptible feature, which anchors the arrival and entrance areas of the two sites as visible fixpoints in the city. It also establishes coherence with the surrounding campus and cityscape that the campus has long missed.
Placed parallel to the Jagtvej, the two buildings are well defined volumes with patterned facades and roofs contrasted by significantly open gables facing the medical student residences and the public rambla. By a slight bend midway in their bodies, the buildings are liberated from the right-angled plan geometry and open themselves up to their surroundings with access from all sides.
The architectonic ambition is to create two distinct buildings, which come across as one entity embracing all faculties on equal terms with science, research, teaching, students and teachers in one united expression. This multifunctional organization of the buildings is a classic Scandinavian feature rooted in the democratic idea.
The light facade has slender, double height apertures in a repetitive shifting pattern. This unique pattern resembles the intertwined double helix of the DNA molecules, thus matching the exterior of the building with the activities inside. Wrapped around the entire building, the façade also covers the roof and the 'underbelly'.
The buildings have central atriums surrounded by crossing, slightly angled bridges and landings and varying green outdoor spaces. Essential to the building is the fine vertical flow of stylized, terraced landscapes from the ground floor and up. The four floors above have two parallel wings of flexible units with laboratories and meeting rooms. The wings are united by transversal connections, which contain offices and lecture rooms.
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