Case study of learning and living in Louisenlund
Facts and figures
School building:
- Integration of four learning houses into the existing historic building stock
- Wooden façade with prefabricated wall elements enables thermal insulation in summer and optimum utilization of solar gains in winter
- Deep foundations due to pronounced organic soft layers over prefabricated mortar tamping columns
- 15,000 tons of earth moved, 500 tons of steel and 3,600 m³ of concrete installed
Residential building
- Circular ring-shaped building ("donut")
- Board stacked timber ceiling and green roof
- Winner of the BDA Prize 2023
Architectural standards and sustainable execution
With the aim of becoming the best boarding school in Europe, the Louisenlund Foundation opted for two new construction projects: a teaching and learning building including a research center and a student residence. In addition to the client's architectural aspiration to combine teaching, research and living in a coherent building concept, the aspect of sustainability was at the forefront of the 28 million euro construction project. LH Architekten implemented this task by using wood as a sustainable building material.
In addition, the houses with their Swedish red wooden façades and different pitched roofs blend into the landscape and the historic building stock.
The learning houses
The room layout in the four 5,200 m² learning houses differs from the usual school architecture: seminar rooms and open learning areas allow for guided learning alone, in pairs and in small groups - traditional classrooms and frontal teaching in classes or year groups are now a thing of the past.
The two-storey "MINT Research Center" follows the same pedagogical approach as an open research environment with various laboratories, flexible learning areas, workshops and teamwork zones.
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