BIG has just released details for a new project called Masterplan Esbjerg Strand in Denmark they say will host a “completely new education platform that will rethink the traditional education system and campus in the country.”

The initiative will entail the creation of a 90,500-square-meter (974,000-square-foot) multi-use green roof structure sited along the Jutland coastline and placed on an elevated platform 7 meters (23 feet) above the ground to gird against the effects of sea level rise.

The firm shares: “As part of an ambitious vision plan Esbjerg of the Future Vision 2025, the city will grow its population and become an attractive educational city; have skilled labor for all; become a sustainable energy monopoly; a digital hub of Northern Europe; become a strong tourist destination on the Wadden Sea with optimal conditions for entrepreneurs.”

BIG recently completed its nearby Marsk Watchtower project and will look to further enhance the area's tourist offerings via the development of the campus.

With an overall footprint totaling just under 14,000 square meters (or about 150,700 square feet), the project is slightly less than half the size of the planned OCEANIX Busan floating city, allowing for an internal courtyard opening that will serve as a park for future workers, educators, and inhabitants. 

BIG expects the project to meet 11 of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and will be developed with sensitivity to the noise created by an adjacent shipyard. To date, the firm has unveiled designs for a new European Commission research center and food tech hub in Spain, the Vltava Philharmonic Hall in Prague, and a cerebral neuroscience center in Aarhus, the country's second-largest city. 

A construction timeline was not provided a press time. Archinect will share more details as they become available.