About this course
This studio focuses on interior architectural design in a Danish context and developing a concept and project design within an existing structure. You create a design concept shaping interior space and user experience. Adaptive reuse and transformation features are among the prioritized challenges in which you engage. Studio groups combine students of different levels and backgrounds. This course is taught vertically, and expectations relate to you as an individual student.
Syllabus
Pre-requisites
Enrollment in a professional school or department of architecture or design. Two spatial design studios at university level.
Additional portfolio work required
Examples of studio work in a portfolio must be submitted to your studio instructor at the beginning of the semester. This will allow your instructor to become acquainted with your design skills and better tailor their teaching.
Recommended language course
Use the city as your classroom through the combined lens of learning more about Danish language and culture with a focus on architecture and design. If you enroll in this studio, consider also enrolling in the 3-credit elective course Danish Language and Culture for Architecture and Design Students.
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Faculty
Tina Midtgaard
FacultyArchitect, M.A.A./M.D.D. (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1992). Curator, exhibition architect and writer of reviews and essays. Operating independently within the field of spatial design with a user-centered focus on sustainable environments, universal design and new methodologies. Various employments in South Africa, Namibia, Berlin and Copenhagen. With DIS since 2005.
Marie-Louise Jensen Høstbo
FacultyArchitect MAA, Royal Danish Academy, 2000. Høstbo, Consultant, 2020-present. Creative Design Director, Fritz Hansen, 2021-2024. Author and photographer, Secret Places, Strandberg Publishing, 2019-2021. Architect MAA, Gallery Dansk Møbelkunst, 1994-2019. With DIS since 2025.
Thomas Sigsgaard
External LecturerCand. arc. Copenhagen 1995. PLH Architects 1995-98, Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects 1998-2001, Over vandet Architects (Own office 2001 – 2007 ), Salto & Sigsgaard IS 2007 – 2020 , DIS (Professor Architecture & Design 2001-2007), DIS, Lecturer/censor 2007-present, Consultant; Eco Conscious Japan 2013-present , Arkitekt maa Thomas Sigsgaard (Own office 2020-present). With DIS since 2025.