Red support beams in a circular structure. Festival guests are arriving

Temporary Roskilde Festival station

Exhibitors
Martin Marker, Morten Meldgaard, Alex Hummel Lee
Students
from 'Complexity Handling in Practice' - see names below
Eksternal partners
Roskilde Festival, DSB, NEXT, Herlev: construction carpenter

The future belongs to the community – the railway station for the 2025 Roskilde Festival builds on an architectural vision for a new era in which architecture is created by a community. 

This departs from regarding structures as individual works of signature architecture, to see them instead as jointly created spaces – for people, materials and places.

The project heralds a transformation in educational practice and a building culture based on community whose core values are cooperation, circular principles and social intimacy.

The individual station components can be dismantled, stored and reused. This approach gives higher priority to the planet’s resources than to short-sighted consumption. The railway station becomes an infrastructural hub symbolising how we can join forces to create solutions that transcend the scope of a single project and merge aesthetics, functionality and environmental considerations into joint action.

The station stands out as a laboratory for future building projects where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Red support beams in the background, young people sitting on the grass in the foreground
The circular public space in use, students from Complexity and Practice
Red support beams in a circular structure. Festival guests are arriving
Passengers arriving at the festival site. Photo: Morten Meldgaard
Red wooden station structure on a lawn
Passengers arriving at the festival site. Photo: Morten Meldgaard

Students from  'Complexity Handling in Practice'

Nasra Ahmed Mohamud Ali, Fredrikke Dam Bendiksen, Nora Bingen-Rasmussen, Maren Bjerg, Anne Line Bruun Enggrob, Ellen Esmark, Oliver Fallenkamp, Louie Zingenberg Frandsen, Alex Rubæk Harild, Mille Bader Havkrog, Rakel Marx Hentze, Mathias Guldbrandt Jensen, Nadia Eg Jensen, Nanna Agnethe Schjødt Jørgensen, Julie Friis Kempel, Laura Emilie Schytt Lassen, Pauline Lück, Linus Heller Lützen, Lucia Fernandez Østerlund, Emilia Cicilie Legind Senderovitz, Caroline Emilie Sloth, Søren Kolborg Sørensen, Oline Toft Stegemann, Karen Marie Duus Terkelsen, Emilie Vendelboe Thomsen.