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Tietgen Student Hall (Tietgenkollegiet)

Tietgenkollegiet, designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter, is not your ordinary dorm. Built in Copenhagen in 2006, the seven-story structure contains 360 rooms and is known as the "residence hall of the future." The project was inspired by the relationship between the collective and the individual; and the design's circular form is a symbol of equality and community.

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Communal Courtyard

If residents want to catch up with friends or check out the stars on a summer night, they can do so in this beautiful courtyard.

Kitchens

Food courts are not the norm at Tietgenkollegiet. Thirty kitchens, each shared by 12 residents, come equipped with tableware, utensils, four fridges, and two cookers.

International Student Dorm Rooms

Peace and privacy is an important part of what it means to stay at this dorm. This is one of the 60 rooms dedicated to international students who are on an exchange stay in Copenhagen. Residents furnish ordinary rooms themselves, but the international rooms come fully furnished.

Lounge Area

This common area is perfect for studying or lounging and reading a favorite book.

Colorful Laundry Room

Instead of putting washers and dryers in a dank basement, the designers created a laundry room that is both colorful and appears light and welcoming.

Mailroom

Who doesn't look forward to a care package from home? Each resident gets his/her own colorful mailbox in this dormitory.

Study Room

Students head over to this study room with their computers to get their work done. The room is also equipped with printers and copy machines.

Bathrooms With Heated Floors

No need to put on shower shoes and lug your toiletries to the bathroom at the end of the hall. Here suites include bathrooms equipped with a shower, toilet, and heated floors.

Another Study Room

This relaxing room lets in a lot of light, unlike study rooms without a single window.

Dorm Rooms

The dorm rooms offer a ton of storage, a closed bookcase, and a movable wardrobe that can be used as a room divider.

The Entrance

The front of the residence hall includes touches of copper-based alloy tombak and oak. When you enter the dormitory, indoor areas are characterized by smooth, unpainted concrete walls. The walls are accented by birch ply, and the floors with magnesite.

Exterior

The architectural firm notes on their site that "the apartments are set at differing depths in an alternating rhythm, which expresses the individual's unique identity through its form and gives the exterior form of the building its characteristic, crystalline expression and neutralises the possibly monumental shape of the cylindrical space."

Hallways and Balconies

Residents can walk down the hall and look out into the courtyard or dine on one of the balconies.

Tietgen at Night

A look at the award-winning architectural gem at night.

Tietgenkollegiet is a donation from Nordea-fonden.

(Photos: Hans Ole Madsen www.madsenfoto.dk)

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