Danish architects CEBRA, along with developers Pihl & Søn and engineers Hundsbæk & Henriksen recenlty won the competition for a new Adult Education Centre of in downtown Odense, Denmarks’s third largest city. The 12.500 m2 / 134.550 ft2 educational institution aims at creating a flexible and diverse learning environment that gives room for individual needs in a collective building. According to the plans, the centre will open at the beginning of 2014. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The design is characterized by a system of curved lines and rounded forms, which cut through the building volume’s regular form and create transparent and various spatialities around a central atrium – a duality that creates interaction, diversity and versatility i regards of both the internal and external organization of the new AEC.
