‘The Heart’ multi-purpose building and activity park in Ikast, Denmark

Like a town in its own right

published in sb 1/2019

’Hjertet’ (the Heart), as the project is called, includes a multi-purpose building, as well as an activity park, to create a new link to the neighbouring HHX Ikast Business College, Ikast-Brande upper secondary school, the teacher training college, and Ikast-Brande International School.

„The aim of the Heart is to combine many different facilities and parallel activities, and to use all of the rooms, all the time, all day long, so that the building is always used actively from early morning to late evening – expressed in an architecture that resembles a small town, with varying roof heights and a square which gathers, guides and distributes users,“ says architect Julian Weyer.

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