{"id":13095,"date":"2025-07-07T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schulbau.online\/uncategorized\/skolen-ved-dybboelsbro-in-copenhagen-architecture-that-brings-together-nutrition-and-learning\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T19:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:05:24","slug":"skolen-ved-dybboelsbro-in-copenhagen-architecture-that-brings-together-nutrition-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schulbau.online\/en\/skolen-ved-dybboelsbro-in-copenhagen-architecture-that-brings-together-nutrition-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Skolen ved Dybb\u00f8lsbro in Copenhagen: Architecture that brings together nutrition and learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What goes on the plate shapes the head. In Copenhagen, this connection is no longer just discussed, it is actively shaped. Between historic cold stores and urban gastronomy, an educational project is setting out to bring the topic of nutrition from the margins to the middle of everyday school life. The Skolen ved Dybb\u00f8lsbro in the K\u00f8dby district, Copenhagen’s Meatpacking District, combines a pedagogical approach with architectural clarity \u2013 and in doing so picks up on the DNA of the listed K\u00f8dbyen district. <\/p>\n\n

The former meat town has long since ceased to be just a place of production. Galleries, restaurants, media companies and urban infrastructure coexist here. Now a new school building<\/a> is expanding the range of uses \u2013 not as a foreign body, but as a source of inspiration. White tiles, linear facades and open room sequences play with the language of Hvide K\u00f8dby, the “White Meatpacking District”, without clinging nostalgically to it. <\/p>\n\n

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Street view of the school by NORD Architects in Copenhagen’s K\u00f8dbyen district \u2013 the white fa\u00e7ade structure picks up on the functionalist architectural language of the Meatpacking District. | \u00a9 Adam M\u00f8rk <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Learning with a connection to the urban space<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

The design by NORD Architects<\/a> and BBP Arkitekter<\/a> confidently positions itself in the urban fabric. Instead of retreating, the building opens up to the quarter in many places. Visual axes create visual references, spacious terrace areas define new qualities of stay. <\/p>\n\n

Movement is also at the heart of the spatial concept: a staggered roof schoolyard links different levels and uses. Workshops, planting areas, sports zones and retreats form a coherent spatial continuum. The route follows a loop that promotes activity – without the classic schoolyard, but with a high quality of stay. <\/p>\n\n

An open atrium connects the floors. Stairs and a central slide translate the idea of vertical movement into built experiences. A 1,250 m\u00b2 sports hall completes the range of exercise. It can be flexibly divided and is also open to associations \u2013 as an infrastructure component in the district. <\/p>\n\n

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The central atrium with grandstand and communication zones creates visual references over several levels and promotes informal learning. | \u00a9 Adam M\u00f8rk <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Open dining area with seating steps, tree islands and extensive glazing \u2013 the Madskole combines nutrition, community and spatial design. | \u00a9 Adam M\u00f8rk <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n

Light, colour, atmosphere: design with attitude<\/h3>\n\n

In addition to space programming, exercise and nutrition, the atmosphere also shapes the learning environment. In the Skolen ved Dybb\u00f8lsbro, light and materiality were deliberately used to increase orientation and quality of stay. Colourful accents \u2013 especially in shades of blue and grey \u2013 visually structure the rooms and create a design reference to the K\u00f8dbyen’s industrial past. <\/p>\n\n

In terms of interior design, the building relies on robust but finely tuned surfaces. Exposed concrete, wood and tiled surfaces meet soft furnishings and targeted lighting. Daylight penetrates deep into the classrooms and common rooms through generous ribbon windows. Artificial lighting not only performs functional tasks, but also contributes to the atmosphere \u2013 for example, through strikingly used luminaires that consciously pick up on colour and form. <\/p>\n\n

This creates an environment that enables both concentrated work and informal learning \u2013 a spatial structure with character that is clearly oriented towards the reality of young people’s lives.<\/p>\n\n

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Insight into the classroom with a focus on project work and group learning \u2013 the architecture supports transparency, communication and active participation. | \u00a9 Adam M\u00f8rk <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Directly connected to the central atrium is the three-subdivided sports hall with 1,250 m\u00b2 of space for school and club use. | \u00a9 Adam M\u00f8rk <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n

Nutrition as an educational principle<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

The school goes further than the classic subject “home economics”. Eating and cooking are an integral part of the pedagogical orientation. The term “madborgerskab” \u2013 which translates as “culinary bourgeoisie” \u2013 stands for a concept that understands nutrition as part of cultural education. <\/p>\n\n

The centrepiece is an open kitchen area that is networked with the dining room and outdoor terraces. This is where people cook, serve, share. The children take responsibility, create rituals, learn through practice: pupils cook and serve lunch themselves here in order to approach the handling of food as part of everyday school life. The kitchen remains open even after the end of class \u2013 as a place for exchange and communal use in the neighbourhood. That’s why the kitchen is not hidden, but visible and accessible \u2013 architecturally as well as didactically. <\/p>\n\n

This structure creates learning spaces in which community is created. The handling of food becomes an opportunity to talk about origin, quality and responsibility. And about what a school can do in the best case: education with an impact on everyday life. <\/p>\n\n

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Access to the school from Ingerslevsgade with a striking staircase \u2013 the school building forms an urban conclusion in the listed urban space. | \u00a9 Adam M\u00f8rk <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

School construction as an urban resource<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

Instead of exclusive use, the house remains open to the district. Leisure activities, sports activities and communal cooking are also planned outside the timetable. The rooms create conditions for exchange \u2013 with architecture that mediates instead of demarcates. <\/p>\n\n

At the same time, the project remains consistently anchored in its location. Instead of reshaping the K\u00f8dbyen district, inspired by the Stockholm exhibition of 1930 and listed as a historic monument since 1999, it is carefully continued. The school is part of this narrative structure \u2013 charged with history, open to the future. <\/p>\n\n

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Aerial view of the staggered school building with roof terraces, sports areas and urban farming zones \u2013 nestled between railway tracks and dense perimeter block development. | \u00a9 Adam M\u00f8rk <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Construction board<\/h3>\n\n
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  • Location: Skelb\u00e6kgade \/ Ingerslevsgade, DK-1717 Copenhagen<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Client: City of Copenhagen, Byggeri K\u00f8benhavn<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Period: 2020 (1st prize in the competition with prequalification) \u2013 2025<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Gross floor area: 12,500 m\u00b2<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Architecture: NORD Architects and BBP Architects<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Engineers: Norconsult<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Landscape Architecture: BOGL Landscape Architects<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • General contractor: BAM Danmark<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Use: Public primary school with a focus on nutrition, exercise and community learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Special features: Roof schoolyard over three levels, open kitchen and dining areas, integrative use by the neighborhood, sports hall for school and extracurricular use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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    Axonometric representation with staggered terraces, diverse exercise spaces, urban gardens and open kitchen area \u2013 learning, nutrition and urban space are spatially intertwined.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Concept graphics: The new school transfers the horizontality of the historic meat halls into a staggered, vertically organized architectural language.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Longitudinal section through Skolen ved Dybb\u00f8lsbro \u2013 the central atrium, stacked learning areas, open roof terraces and the embedded triple sports hall on the ground floor become visible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n

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