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Student Housing in Odense: Architecture Shapes Behavior

The City of Odense is just an hour’s drive from Copenhagen and is the third largest one in Denmark. Today it is in Odense where one of the University of Southern Denmark branches takes place (the rest are in Kolding, Esbjerg, Slagelse Sonderborg). Branch university in Odense is the biggest one amongst all. Every year 1,500 students come to study here and 40 of the proposed courses are conducted in English, allowing by this international students to follow the program.

Generally, as the most prestigious higher education institutions of the country are considered to be the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Copenhagen. Denmark – modern and prosperous is the only one of all the Nordic countries which is directly joined to mainland Europe and by the way offers a very high level of education also in English in addition to the official language. Also all of the residents of the country are fluent in English which creates a soft environment for the integration of foreign students. There is also a fact that everyone who comes here to study in an exchange program base has accommodation as guaranteed from the side of Denmark, making it even more attractive.

Of course, thanks to this policy, the question of creating comfortable dormitories, allowing not only accommodating all comers but also, due to its structure, to retreat in private areas and easily interact with other students in the common ones, was raised.

In Danish psychology such things as hard work, pursuit of equality, collective problem solving, are clearly laid. It is not really appreciated here – excessive expression of individuality, but the opposite “team approach” is very welcome. Architecture, from the point of view of nordic people directly affects the formation of personality and generates a certain human’s behavior.

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