The building's anatomy should also relate directly to the existing scale of the site and Godsbanearealerne's former identity as an industrial railyard. The architecture begins with a vision of a robust, industrial kit of parts. From there, we integrate the systems, spaces, and functions of the building into a unified design concept - a robust, industrial laboratory for architecture.

We begin with a site as an open frame, laying a robust structural grid that steps down to meet the scale of the Green Wedge. In this open system, the grid continues up as it approaches Carl Blochs Gade. These frame the studio workspaces of the school as an industrial building – open in plan and democratic by design.

Within this frame we position a series of "toolboxes" – the specific programmatic elements and activities that are the school's workshops, heavier machinery, lecture rooms, and services. The "toolboxes" are arranged according to scale and program in a checkerboard pattern, creating a porous border and relating in space and scale to the adjacent context. They break down the scale of the building to complement the existing structures along the Green Wedge and can be shared with the public given their placement around the building's perimeter. Perhaps workshops can be used by artists or creatives outside the school, lecture facilities can be used for weekend events or evening meetings, and the school's library will act as the neighborhood reading room. This is what makes a school of architecture a laboratory and not a factory: it is open to input, organic and informal, to encourage the mixing of ideas. Architecture should evolve with this influence.

But to facilitate this mixing, there should also be the same spirit of shared open space as in the Green Wedge and even the courtyards of the current school buildings. We continue this open community space in a series of connected double high spaces. They are bordered by studios, public functions, and toolboxes, and become the mixing chambers where the chemistry of the school comes alive.

Together, the frame, toolboxes, and mixing chambers create a laboratory for architecture. It is a diverse spatial matrix where various programs and activities interact in both planned and unexpected ways. As the floor plans progress through the building, they alternate in spaces that are closed or open, public or private, programmed or unprogrammed, etc. This playful composition is nothing but a simple kit of parts with functional relationships, but also an open narrative of spatial nuance, hierarchies, and connections.

The system begins at the ground floor, where a checkerboard of toolboxes creates an open, porous border with the building's context. The building becomes just a part of the creative campus of Godsbane. The system of spaces creates a natural nuance of opening and enclosure that works as a puzzle piece with its surroundings.

While the composition of spaces is unique and varied, their assembly follow a series of simple systems. The basic module of the floors above the ground floor follows a simple H-Plan, with studios on the perimeter and common functions in the center. This module steps up into three floors, extending the common workshop space at the center of the building into the series of connected double-height mixing chambers. Within these common spaces the service cores alternate in a checkerboard pattern. These space the mechanical, circulation, and service components necessary for the building's operation within a playful spatial composition.

This overlay of simple systems is evident in the façade and sections of the building. The basic checkerboard pattern and stepped floors create a naturally varied façade that alternates between different functions. The interior of the building similarly mixes vastly different types of space in close proximity.

As you walk through the building, its spaces and functions open and enclose from side to side. They are purely functional and industrial in nature, but within their composition breaks the scale of a large warehouse down to the comfort level of an individual student's experience.