Schmidt Hammer Lassen Wins Competition to Design Skills City’s New Common House
We’re thrilled to share that we’ve won the competition for Skills City Common House in Herning. Together with LYTT and Niras, we’ve developed a building that embraces and invites the unique landscape of the Herningsholm area into the heart of the design.
Skills City Common House will offer welcoming spaces inside out for social activities across professional disciplines and interests. A place for students to gather after school hours in close connection to nature and to each other.
“The project is about establishing space for togetherness and human connectedness among young people who are finding themselves in their profession on the threshold of adulthood. It is incredibly meaningful to contribute to their experience of studying, and in some cases living, in Skills City” – explains Kasper Heiberg Frandsen, Partner at Schmidt Hammer Lassen.
The project focuses on two main areas, ‘Kulturbåndet’ and ‘Fælleshuset’, which together envisage both the use of the open space and the surrounding nature, as well as a common meeting point that invites life and activity. The building and landscape merge seamlessly into a harmonious whole, using materials like brick and biogenic elements to meet both functional and sustainability criteria.
The sum of it all becomes a spacious and inviting setting – both inside and outside and in the generous transition zones between. Crafts, mockups, chopping blocks and blacksmithing. Professional pride and curiosity about each other.
"Social sustainability plays a central role at Herningsholm, and with the new building, we can enhance communities, diversity, and democratic education. We are confident that Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s beautiful community house will provide the students at Herningsholm with the very best conditions to thrive," says Allan Kortnum, Director of Herningsholm Vocational School & Colleges.
We are very proud and grateful to be given the opportunity to see this meaningful project through as a team in close collaboration with Herningsholm Vocational School and High Schools.
The project is funded by the A. P. Møller Foundation.
Visuals: Vismo & Schmidt Hammer Lassen
