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    Dokk1 is a large public building in Aarhus, Denmark that houses the main city library, citizens services, commercial offices, and event spaces. It has over 300,000 items in its media collection. Key facilities include 68 public computers, seating and work spaces for over 1,100 people, meeting rooms, labs, a café, and playground. The building cost 1.4 billion Danish kroner to construct and has sustainability features like solar panels and seawater cooling. It serves an average of 3,600 users and 1.3 million total visitors per year.

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    Dokk1 is a large public building in Aarhus, Denmark that houses the main city library, citizens services, commercial offices, and event spaces. It has over 300,000 items in its media collection. Key facilities include 68 public computers, seating and work spaces for over 1,100 people, meeting rooms, labs, a café, and playground. The building cost 1.4 billion Danish kroner to construct and has sustainability features like solar panels and seawater cooling. It serves an average of 3,600 users and 1.3 million total visitors per year.

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    Dokk1 is a large public building in Aarhus, Denmark that houses the main city library, citizens services, commercial offices, and event spaces. It has over 300,000 items in its media collection. Key facilities include 68 public computers, seating and work spaces for over 1,100 people, meeting rooms, labs, a café, and playground. The building cost 1.4 billion Danish kroner to construct and has sustainability features like solar panels and seawater cooling. It serves an average of 3,600 users and 1.3 million total visitors per year.

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    The building ƒƒ 6
     study rooms
    ƒƒ Area in m²: 30,000 (11,000 m² on Le- ƒƒ Public computers
    vel 3, including rentable office spaces) ƒƒ 1 café with seating for 112 indoors
    ƒƒ Dimensions: 100 x 100 m. and 120 outdoors
    ƒƒ Cost: DKK 1.4 bn for the building ƒƒ 24 toilets, including 4 accessible toilets
    (including the parking facility, which ƒƒ Underground parking facility with
    cost DKK 550 m, funded by room for about 1,000 vehicles. Retri-
    Realdania By & Byg) eval time: 2 minutes at the most. 20
    parking hoists
    Facilities ƒƒ 160 cloakroom boxes, 48 on Level 2,
    ƒƒ 68 PCs available to the public 112 on Level 1
    ƒƒ Seating for more than 1,100 people
    (including the halls, meeting rooms, Opening hours
    café etc.) ƒƒ Dokk1 is open 8-22 on weekdays
    ƒƒ 650 of these places are in open areas and 10-16 at weekends. The Library
    ƒƒ Large and Minor Hall with room for and Citizens’ Service have separate
    70 and 250 people respectively. opening hours
    Externally, these halls are clad with
    stained American walnut laminate. Works of art
    Donated by the A.P. Møller and Cha- ƒƒ Magic Mushrooms (Elmgreen &
    stine Mc-Kinney Møller Foundation Dragset, 2015). An anonymous, uni-
    ƒƒ Meeting room: seat 32 people versal upside-down metropolis
    respectively ƒƒ The Gong (Kirstine Roepstorff, 2015).
    ƒƒ 2 teaching rooms: seats 16 and 24 7.5 m long and 0.5 cm thick bronze
    people tubular bell. Weight 3 tonnes
    ƒƒ 1 Reading Room ƒƒ Poseidon (A-kassen, 2017)
    ƒƒ 15 oases – spaces for relaxation Bronze sculpture standing at
    or events Hack Kampmanns Plads
    ƒƒ 2 labs with access to water
    ƒƒ 1 room for nursing mothers and 1 Programme
    room for eating ƒƒ Between 80 and 100 events per
    ƒƒ The Ramp, with five activity levels month
    ƒƒ The Box – space for play activities
    Sustainability Staff
    ƒƒ 2,400 m² of solar panel array on ƒƒ The library (including the technical
    the roof running of Dokk1): 78 staff and 42
    ƒƒ Seawater cooling system book shelvers
    ƒƒ Most of the lighting in the building ƒƒ Citizen’s Services: 134 staff
    is LED
    Partnerships
    Accessibility ƒƒ More than 100 agreed partnerships
    ƒƒ Accessible toilets ƒƒ Dokk1s partnerships help generate
    ƒƒ Ramps between levels about 60 % of Dokk1s total events
    ƒƒ Lifts between levels programme
    ƒƒ Handicap parking
    ƒƒ Acoustic warnings for the deaf or Occupants of the building
    hard of hearing ƒƒ The Main Library
    ƒƒ Teleloop ƒƒ Citizens’ Services
    ƒƒ European Capital of Culture 2017
    Playground ƒƒ ITK
    ƒƒ The playground is called The Globe ƒƒ Administration
    – a voyage of discovery around the ƒƒ Urban Mediaspace – project
    whole building secretariat
    ƒƒ Donated by The Herman Salling ƒƒ Aarhus City Archives
    Foundation ƒƒ DokkX
    ƒƒ 440 m long ƒƒ Center for Innovation in Aarhus
    ƒƒ The Eagle has a wingspan of 6 m ƒƒ 13 commercial tenancies on Level 3
    ƒƒ The Bear is 7 m tall
    ƒƒ The Playground is made by the com- Media collection
    pany ’Monstrum’ ƒƒ 220,000 books
    ƒƒ 80,000 other types of media
    Users ƒƒ Total: 300,000 media items
    ƒƒ 3,600 users a day on average ƒƒ Lending statistics, Dokk1: average
    (2015-16) number of items per month, 46,000
    ƒƒ 10 % of all visitors are are serviced by
    the Citizen’s Services
    ƒƒ 1,3 m visitors during the first year

    Hack Kampmanns Plads 2


    8000 Aarhus C
    www.dokk1.dk

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