{"id":13117,"date":"2025-06-03T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T10:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schulbau.online\/uncategorized\/architekturreise-kopenhagen-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:05:14","slug":"architekturreise-kopenhagen-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schulbau.online\/en\/architekturreise-kopenhagen-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecture Tour Copenhagen 2025: Experience, Reflect, and Discuss Educational Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Denmark does not talk about school architecture, Denmark builds \u2013 and with conviction. Anyone who drives through the suburbs of Copenhagen, who looks around the schoolyards between North Zealand and Nord\u00f8stamager, quickly senses: Here, learning is not a closed process, it is a public endeavor. Architecture participates, leads forward, opens doors \u2013 both literally and figuratively. <\/p>\n\n

This very approach was experienced by a group of architects, planners, educators, and decision-makers in early June on the SCHULBAU Architecture Tour<\/a> to Copenhagen. The two-day excursion was a genuine dialogue \u2013 with the city, with its buildings, with its thinkers. <\/p>\n\n

Arrive, Discover, Immerse<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

It began on Sunday evening with a city walk: not a mandatory tourist program, not conventional sightseeing. Rather, a collective arrival \u2013 with an eye for proportions, for materiality, for atmosphere. Copenhagen presented itself not only as a cycling city, but as a spatial laboratory: mixed, accessible, alert. At the subsequent dinner, it quickly became clear: this group has ambitious plans. <\/p>\n\n

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From Helsing\u00f8r to Nord\u00f8stamager: Learning as a Public Mission<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

Monday began early. Along the legendary coastal road Strandvejen, the journey led toward North Zealand \u2013 with expansive views of the water and the open landscape. In Helsing\u00f8r, a city between history and the present, Helsing\u00f8r Skole opened its doors. Lene Jensby Lange from autens CPH<\/a> guided the group through the building \u2013 but the focus was on more: on a pedagogical understanding that conceives school as a shared living space. <\/p>\n\n

Directly opposite: the M\/S Maritime Museum of Denmark. Here, the group descended into an entirely different world \u2013 spatially and conceptually. Frederik Lyng from BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)<\/a> explained the museum building, which wraps around a former dry dock like an archaeological artifact. The fact that this tour was conducted exclusively for the group underscored the exceptional quality of the trip. <\/p>\n\n

After the classic sm\u00f8rrebr\u00f8d lunch, the journey returned to Copenhagen. Two additional educational buildings were on the agenda \u2013 demonstrating how diversely Danish school architecture is conceived today. <\/p>\n\n

The Nord\u00f8stamager Skole \u2013 presented by Liv Bach Henriksen from Kj\u00e6r & Richter<\/a> \u2013 illustrated how powerfully space and pedagogy can interact. The building responds to its surroundings, connects to the neighborhood, offers permeability and security simultaneously. Here, no fixed paths are created \u2013 here, the school day is co-designed. <\/p>\n\n

Later in the afternoon, KVUC (K\u00f8benhavns Voksenuddannelsescenter) opened its doors. Michael Laungaard from Laark-Laundgaard Arkitekter<\/a> guided the group through the building, which reimagines adult education. Flexible spatial structures, clear materials, and a sensitive connection between old and new made it evident that learning is not an age-bound phenomenon \u2013 but an urban design approach. <\/p>\n\n

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More Than an Excursion<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n

At the end of the official program, a shared impression remained: this trip was not merely a look at Danish projects \u2013 it is a glimpse into possible futures.<\/p>\n\n

What does it mean to take school architecture seriously? What does it mean to think of education as part of the city? And how does the role of planners change when pedagogy is understood less as an additional requirement and more as a starting point? <\/p>\n\n

Copenhagen did not provide answers that can be transferred one-to-one. But the city opened up spaces for thought \u2013 with buildings that, rather than replicating finished concepts, reveal possibilities. <\/p>\n\n

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