FLETVÆRKET

Together with girls from Himmelev Gymnasium and Roskilde Pigefodbold (girls’ football club), and with support from Roskilde Municipality, The Danish Foundation for Culture and Sports Facilities, and Nykredits Fond, we have developed the idea of a new meeting place to promote relationships, health, and well-being among young people, particularly girls aged 13-19 years.

A new everyday meeting place

Inspired by third-place thinking, the project provides young people with a new kind of everyday meeting place, where school, leisure, sports, and community activities can intertwine in a way that is meaningful to them. The building will serve multiple purposes and functions but will primarily become an informal place to meet, hang out, and engage in joint activities during breaks, after school, and before and after matches and training.

A new 730 m² extension of the high school’s sports hall, adjacent to the currently least attractive football pitches at Himmelev sports complex, will form the meeting place. The extension will connect, intertwine, and enhance the value of the existing hall and pitches. The new building will feature a wooden construction and modular design. The girls’ wishes and needs have guided its light, bright expression and the programming of space.

Multi-functionality

The house will feature a small kitchen and café, as well as a larger shared space, from which there will be a view of the hall and a lookout over the football facilities. Two multi-purpose rooms are flexible and can host various user-specific activities, meetings, or be integrated into the shared area for larger events. The center of the shared space is a continuous, multi-functional stairwell that connects the ground floor to the loft and roof terrace, as well as the ground floor to an extended basement with new locker rooms, primarily for the girls’ football teams.

Exciting potential as a meeting place

Fletværket is not only a place for girls, but it also has the exciting potential to become a vibrant local meeting place in an area of Roskilde where there is no natural center. In addition to 700 high school students and 400 girls in football, the hall and football facilities serve multiple other users, and the local area includes schools, daycare institutions, and residents in both private and public housing. Fletværket will be part of Roskilde Municipality’s new development plan for the Himmelev sports complex, and the project’s partners are working to raise the necessary funding. The project has a total budget of 26.7 million DKK, including outdoor areas, and is expected to be ready for the start of the 2027/2028 school and football season.

Research and innovation behind Fletværket

Fletværket is a test case in a research and innovation collaboration between Roskilde University, Cornelius Vöge, Boligselskabet Sjælland (a social housing company), and is supported by the Innovation Fund Denmark. Industrial Ph.D. student Xiaobo (Mimi) Shen contributed to and followed the user and design process. The focus is not only on the physical design but also on how meeting places, socially and organizationally, can benefit from user involvement, and how communities can be organized around places, not just around particular activities. Fletværket is the result of an extensive stakeholder and user process

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