DTU, Technical University of Denmark, hosts 12.000 students, teachers and researchers. How to add yet another office/laboratory to the existing structure? The university area is conceived as a forest. Inside the forest a large clearing space for buildings. The buildings are strictly and rationally organized, as a circuit board. In the middle a large avenue spans 2km – as a giant order that clearly transcends the scale of buildings and humans. 4 quadrants with 4 squares will in the future be focus of attention. The building is conceived with the following principles:

Use the landscape

The building absorbs and subordinates to the large landscape plan – the landscape moves and puts «pressure» on the building and even enters the building – a building marked by the forest.

Use the neighbors

The buildings unique position makes it possible to connect the existing buildings – and thereby take advantage of the neighbors’ social and professional energy. The new pixilated formal language is a polite way to introduce the diagonal into the strictly orthogonal.

Create a modern structure for science and training

The building is structures with drop-down workspaces in the ground floor and more traditional office rooms in the 2 upper floors. The hallway are zigzagged to create lively and varied spaces to enhance communication and sharing of knowledge.

Sustain large openness in the ground floor

The building is raised on pillars – to sustain openness between Elektrovej and Matematiktorvet. This creates a new public space on DTU – a place where students can gather in groups, discuss in between the lessons or maybe just pause in the new café.