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designed by C. F. Møller and built with funding f
rom the A.P. Møller Foundation, is directly connected to the existing Panum Complex. The primary aim has been to create a boundaryless, flexible and stimulating research fellowship across institutes, departments and external partners. One key feature in the approach was breaking with traditions, explains Mads Mandrup Hansen, Partner at C.F. Møller and lead architect on the project. With an open interconnection of the different floors, the Mærsk Tower breaks with traditional laboratory layouts typically limited to horizontal plan designs. The overall layout of the Mærsk Tower is based around the concept of research departments capable of expanding vertically as well as horizontally but without compromising connectivity. To achieve this openness, connectivity both physically and visually plays a significant role. In developing the scheme, C.F. Møller worked closely with The Panum Institute’s researchers to create a design that reflected the university’s collaborative approach: to create a future research environment based upon openness, where open laboratories and transparent glass walls seek to enable new ways of working across disciplines. “The architecture and especially the looping layout of the research floors, and the openness between floor levels and connectivity by an internal stairway, are key points of 82