Construction and renovation of learning environments

30 new multifunctional auditoriums

Over the next years, 30 auditoriums on Lyngby Campus will be modernized for a three-digit million sum. The first auditoriums have already been refurbished and taken into use.

The structure of the new multifunctional auditoriums constitutes a challenge to the conventional auditorium. This means that they can be used for conventional lectures and for group work, including in interaction with newly constructed class areas in the immediate vicinity of the auditorium.

New teaching buildings

DTU has also constructed completely new buildings (building 127 and building 324) that are used as teaching facilities. A combination of classrooms and open group work areas provides flexible teaching facilities, with alternation between presentations and group work.

Innovative AV and IT equipment makes the teaching more exciting

DTU has adopted a new standard for installing AV equipment in classrooms, to ensure that newly constructed and renovated classrooms are provided with modern teaching facilities.

Examples of new AV equipment may be intuitive digital blackboards, cameras for video recording and streaming of lectures and presentations, as well as innovative interactive technologies that allow for digital two-way communication between lecturers and students. The first classrooms have already been fitted up in accordance with this new standard.

A modern study environment

Building 324 houses DTU’s brand-new, modern teaching facilities with innovative AV facilities, lounge areas, and open spaces, lots of digital blackboard space, and facilities for live streaming of lectures and presentations.

Innovative AV facilities

The ground floor of building 324 houses joint teaching facilities with six classrooms. The classrooms will be equipped with modern, advanced AV equipment designed to support e-learning at DTU. In all rooms, there are two full HD projectors which provide ample digital blackboard space.

Four of the classrooms are fitted with digital drawing boards on which the lecturer can draw precise graphs, etc., which are subsequently displayed on the big screens.

A visualizer, a video camera which acts as a kind of digital overhead projector, has also been installed in these classrooms. Both an A4 paper and a gadget can be placed under the camera, after which the film will be projected on a big screen.

Lectures and presentations can be streamed live

In addition, cameras have been installed in all the rooms, so that lectures and presentations can be streamed live to the Internet or transmitted to other premises in the building. This means that you can connect classrooms so that the same teaching can take place at several locations simultaneously. Or students who are unable to attend a lecture can follow it via the Internet.

Students not present in the classrooms can raise a ‘digital’ hand by sending a text message to the lecturer, who can then display the questions on a big screen.

The design and layout of the facilities are multifunctional

Furnished ‘break-out’ zones are assigned to each classroom. Here students can work in groups as part of their course learning.

The design and layout make it possible to vary teaching activities between classes and group work, and to switch smoothly from one to the other.

Glass-walled classrooms create an open and inviting atmosphere while allowing daylight to reach the innermost parts of the building. There are eight other furnished areas on the ground floor, which cannot be booked and can thus be used freely by both students and employees.

Open spaces and lounge areas

There are no dull views from the hallways at DTU Compute in building 324. In several places, the space opens up and becomes an aerial walkway with a view over the 24 black olive trees on the ground floor.

On the ground floor, there are furnished lounge areas, where students and staff can sit beneath the shady branches to work or chat.