Artplaza | EFFEKT architects

The aim of the competition was to combine all faculties into one new building creating new synergies for the art academy. The programme host several faculties: architecture, fine arts, design, art culture as well as a large group of public and shared facilities such as library, cantina, exhibition galleries, art shop, large lecture halls. They can be seen as thousands of smaller individual worlds – departments with their own realm, speciality knowledge and workshops – so the challenge was to combine the many individual worlds within a new collective building keeping both the individuality and creating a new synergy. The municipal plan at the plot dictated a long flat perimeter block. Instead we proposed to stack the programme in a compact tower – liberating half of the site to a 4000 sqm public plaza. A blank canvas the academy can fill out with exhibitions, events in a dialogue with the city. The public plaza continues through the building in a spiralling atrium that connects the entire academy in one collective space. It literally connects the academy with the city. Construction to begin 2012