Kulturløberen

Skanderborg will soon have a new urban space in front of the town’s culture house, consisting of a new lakeside bath and a new square. The project, supported by the Danish Foundation for Culture and Sports Facilities, combines culture, urban life and movement in a new way and will become a demonstration project, which with innovative and varied solutions will show how an attractive urban space can be designed, so that it allows accessibility to everyone regardless of age and functionality. 

LYTT Architecture has designed the new active square “Kulturløberen”, which will combine the urban life and culture activities in front of the culture house with water and sports activities around the lakeside bath. The project is part of a unifying “culture axis”: the town’s new outdoor-generator and focal point for life and activity that connects the town’s main shopping street, culture house and Skanderborg Lake and Lakeside bath. 
The “Kulturløberen” will consist of different landscape and urban elements, which together will create synergy and vitalise the town and the local nature in a new coherent environment. 

For the project, LYTT has specially designed sculptural, rotating furniture, which partly an urban installation, partly an invitation to movement, exploration and play. The multifunctional furniture can be used for stay as well as support and partitions at events. The furniture creates identity at the square and adds a surprising variability throughout the day and year. 

The overall project – the “Culture axis”, encompasses three sub-projects, including an extension of Skanderborg Culture House, the establishment of the new interconnecting urban space and square – “Kulturløberen” – as well as the establishment of Søtorvet that includes the new Lakeside Bath.