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European Film College
Heikkinen-Komonen Architects Ltd. Ebeltoft, Denmark
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Name of work in English
European Film College
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Name of work in original language
Den Europæiske Filmhøjskole
Prize year
EUmies Awards 1994
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Work Location
Ebeltoft, Denmark
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Studio
Heikkinen-Komonen Architects Ltd
EUmies Awards 1994 Shortlisted
The European Film College is a part of the traditional Danish Folkehöjskole program, which provides popular education without formal degrees. It is a boarding school that teaches film to movie lovers of all ages but also offers short-term courses for professionals.
Collaborators
Collaborator (external): 3XN, Aarhus, Denmark
Program
Education
Completion
1993
The site is a green field near the picturesque city center of Ebeltoft. The complex comprises the school, student dormitory, and faculty residences. The school houses two movie theaters, studios, workshops, classrooms, administrative facilities, and a restaurant.
The main building cuts the site in two; the deep valley created by the Ice Age was left untouched, but the courtyard facing the dormitory is planned for gatherings. The southern facade, containing storage areas, kitchen, and studios, recreates the scale of a small Danish town or the first film studios in 1920s Copenhagen, while the northern facade, clad in threemillimeterthick zinccoated steel plating, has a more austere character.
The entrance to the college is via long and narrow bridge, cantilevered high above the valley and facing the skyline of the town and nearby bay. Any resemblance to Hitchcock s Vertigo is purely coincidental.