Roskilde Festival Folk High School campus in Roskilde, Denmark, has been built by COBE and MVRDV inside a former concrete factory.
Danish firm COBE and Dutch architecture practice MVRDV collaborated to create the school in the Musicon district of Roskilde near the site of the annual rock festival. The folk school is the first to be built in Denmark in 50 years. 

"The warehouses were worn, rough, run down and we immediately loved them," COBE founder Dan Stubbergaard told Dezeen.
"We saw an immense potential in creating a creative school with an instant 'street creditability' because the school would be placed within an existing building, an abandoned factory. This meant that the school would not become institutional as a new building might be experienced as."
The architecture studios only kept the concrete girders and pillars from the factory, adding large windows and inserting 16 "boxes" to divide up the space into areas for different workshops to be held.
These boxes are stacked in two staggered levels around a central common area, which retains the original eight-metre-high ceilings of the industrial space.

The Danish folk high school movement, which began in the early 1800s, has no fixed curriculum or exams. Traditionally students would live at the school during the winter before returning to their family farms for the rest of the year.
Stubbergaard was himself a student at a folk high school, which informed his approach when designin...