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In ‘Dæmpa Serviceblad 2’, published in 1954, it is recorded
that ceiling panels were supplied for the interiors of another
significant new public building in Odense – the Tietgenskolen (Tietgen Business School), which Vagn O. Kyed
designed. The architect of numerous modernist buildings in
the city constructed between the 1930s and the 1960s, his
design was composed of three co-joined blocks of three
and four-storeys with shared corner stairways. These were
built using exposed concrete framing with red brick gables
and shallow-pitched roofing, an approach reflecting the
era’s ‘new empiricism.’
When the Business School moved to new premises in 2016,
the existing building was sold for further use as a private
school, Giersings Realskole, and there too the original ceilings remain in place. As we shall see, Danish schools would
become very frequent recipients of Dæmpa ceilings, which
had obvious benefits in reducing the noise made by children.
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