Denmark’s new national learning centre for children and young people, LIFE Campus in Lyngby, was officially inaugurated today at a grand opening ceremony attended by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik.

With the new 4,000 m² learning centre, the LIFE Foundation aims to spark interest in science among Danish school pupils. The vision is to raise scientific literacy, education, and research in Denmark through hands-on science education programmes, where students work with real-world problems.

The architecture of LIFE Campus is inspired by STEM disciplines, with a vision to manifest the interplay between nature and science. Upon arrival, visitors are greeted by a striking façade made up of 96 raw oak columns—referencing DNA strands and Fibonacci structures.

“LIFE Campus welcomes visitors as a living building in a living landscape. A building that opens up and generously invites you in with a fan of oak columns that surprisingly lift off the ground, defy gravity, and hopefully spark curiosity the moment you arrive,”
says Thomas West Jensen, Senior Partner at Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects.