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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Herningsholm Vocational School in Herning, Denmark by C.F. Møller ArchitectsJuly 6th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: C.F. Møller Architects The new Herningsholm Vocational School asserts itself as an independent building in an existing campus cluster of educational buildings. The school is designed inside-out-with a focus on the creation of optimal learning and study environments-as well as outside-in, in relation to the surrounding context where welcoming urban spaces provide possibilities for outdoor work and teaching.  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects
 Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects The building takes into account that our behavior and thinking is shaped by the physical environment we are in. The form of the learning environment– the architecture–has a significant impact on the student’s daily learning processes, and is therefore designed for modernand democratic principles.  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects The building is an angular layout that brings together three building volumes under a sloping roof, which in scale responds to the surroundings by dropping from three floors furthest south to two floors in the far north. The angular building creates three new outdoor urban and learning spaces in conjunction with the neighboring buildings: The Plaza, the study garden and a front garden.  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects The Plaza becomes an important destination that brings together the surrounding institutions and users. The Plaza incorporates greenery in the form of two large cracks in the poured concrete; merging the urban scale with the human scale. In dry weather, the triangulated depressions offer seating in the green. During rainfall, the recesses act as natural infiltration and retention basins to relieve the sewers.  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects To the west, around existing trees, a quiet green garden space called study garden is formed, for learning, reflection and contemplation; while to the south a more semi-public space front garden is established with direct access from the classrooms on the ground floor.  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects An incision into the building volume towards the Plaza produces a dramatic architectural idiom for the school. The roof over hang forms a covered outdoor space, which mediates the transition to the lower buildings to the north, and clearly highlights the school’s main entrance and “shop fronts” on the ground floor where the various educations and their work is made visible.  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects The learning spaces that are the building’s backbone are organized around aunifying common space that also serves as a flexible learning environment. The learning spaces are grouped 2 and 2 so as to create direct access to the common space from all learning spaces in the school.  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects The building is designed for general use, and the learning spaces are designed so that the physical environment supports and matches varied, flexible and contemporary learning principles. Built-in seating / study niches in the façade brings quality to the spaces, and inspires alternative, more unconventional uses. Mobile furnishings can quickly transform the learning space for various teaching situations.  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects The common study spaces also offers varied physical environments to work in, from the double-height rooms facing the garden, suitable for workshop-like uses, to a student café space for informal gatherings of students, to dedicated study corners of quieter and more intimate character–and each individual learning space in itself is designed for numerous setups and spatial uses.  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects The facades are differentiated by orientation, showcasing how the constructions, sustainable initiatives and installation principles are fully adapted and integrated with the architectural concept: The glazed facades feature integrated niches and deep reveals that provide shading for the façade architecture, which plays on gravity and ease using massive pre-fabricated fibre cement facade panels in combination with tall, bronze-anodized perforated aluminum shutters which add warmth and variation to the composition.  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects C.F. Møller profile C.F. Møller is one of Scandinavia’s oldest and largest architectural practices. Our award-winning work involves a wide range of expertise that covers all architectural services, landscape architecture, product design, healthcare planning and management advice on user consultation, change management, space planning, logistics, client consultancy and organisational development.  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects  Image Courtesy © C.F. Møller Architects
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