Aarhus University – built in 1931 and expanded to the present day – is a unique and integral university campus with a complete architecture, among other things in the form of the consistent use of yellow bricks and the buildings’ cohesion with the landscape.
Aarhus University and the associated University Park contain classrooms, offices, libraries, workshops and student accommodation. The university building is characterized by its uniform appearance and the utilization of the contours of the surrounding landscape.
The campus has grown up around a distinctive moraine gorge, where the individual departments and faculties are located on the slopes from the main building at Ringgaden to the city center at Nørreport. All the university’s buildings are a variation on the same clear prism shape, which ensures that the different building units speak the same language. The way the buildings appear in their surroundings makes them appear to have grown out of the landscape.
Aarhus University has become known and recognized as a complete building that combines the best aspects of functionalism with good Danish traditions in form and material. C. F. Møller has handled new construction, landscape architect services as well as renovation and remodeling work for the university from the first construction until today.
