Marknagil School rising.
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Located on a hillside 330 feet (100 m) above sea level with a panoramic view overlooking the water, mountains and harbor of Torshavn, the new education center will bring together three different schools into one building. The project is designed as a vortex, radiating out towards its surroundings while also creating an inner landscape for communal learning—a functional sculpture formed by the various needs of all users.
Interdisciplinary learning is at the heart of this new education center. From the earliest concepts, the goal has been to challenge the existing disciplinary boundaries, both pedagogically
and architecturally. While each school functions independently, they share a vertical campus. The stepped interior reflects the undulating Faroese landscape with different social and
academic activities happening across the plateaus, stairwells, and terraces. The heart of the building is the center’s open rotunda, a space so large (104 feet / 32 meters in diameter) that
it is experienced, not as an atrium, but as a city square that is full of life and activity—a natural gathering point across different academic interests and backgrounds.
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FAROE ISLANDS EDUCATION CENTRE
client: MENTAMALARADID (MINISTRY OF CULTURE) / LANDSVERK
collaborators:
FUGLARK, LEMMING & ERIKSSON, SAMAL JOHANNESEN, MARTIN E. LEO SP/F, KJ ELRAD RADGEVANDI VERKFROEDINGAR, HENRIK RøMER
KANIA
size: 19200 M2
location: TORSHAVN, FAROE ISLANDS
status: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Partners in Charge:
Bjarke Ingels, Finn Nørkjær, Jakob Lange
Project Leader:
Finn Nørkjær
Project Architect:
Ole Elkjær Larsen
Team:
Alberte Danvig, Alessio Valmori, Alexandre Carpentier, Alejandro Gonzales, Annette Jensen, Armen Menendian, Baptiste Blot, Camille Crepin, Camila Stadler, Christian
Alvarez, Claudio Moretti, David Zahle, Daniel Pihl, Dennis Rasmussen, Edouard Boisse, Elisha Nathoo, Enea Michelesio, Eskild Nordbud, Ewelina Moszczynska, Frederik
Lyng, Gaetan Brunet, Goda Luksaite, Greta Krenciute, Henrik Kania, Høgni Laksáfoss, Jakob Hansen, Jan Besikov, Jan Kudlicka, Jesper Andersen, Jeppe Ecklon, Jiyoung
Yoon, Johan Cool, KariAnn Petersen, Krista Meskanen, Katerina Joannides, Laura Youf, Long Zuo, Martin Cajade, Michael Schønemann, Mikkel Marcker Stubgaard,
Nanna Gyldholm Møller, Nicklas A. Rasch, Oana Simionescu, Paolo Venturella, Richard Howis, Rune Hansen, Takumi Iwasawa, Tiago Sá, Tobias Hjortdal, Xiao Lu
