BIG is looking for 4 talented architecture, industrial design and modelmaking students with a particular interest in physical model making and architectural fabrication to join our Copenhagen office.
As a Modelshop Intern, you will work alongside our Modelshop team and architecture project teams to design and produce physical models and mock-ups. The role offers hands-on experience across all aspects of working in a professional model workshop, including model production, digital fabrication, equipment management, workshop upkeep and facility improvement.
Please note: This internship must run for a minimum of six months from February/March 1st, 2027.
As a Modelshop Intern, you will contribute to the design and production of models across a range of projects, from quick study models to detailed presentation models. You will work closely with architects, engineers, landscape architects and product designers, helping translate architectural ideas into physical objects.
As you develop in the role, you will have opportunities to expand your knowledge of materials, fabrication methods and workshop practices while taking greater responsibility for model design and production.
Please note: Graduates at Master's level or graduates of a five-year Bachelor's programme cannot be considered for internships, even if they retain student status. Your educational status will be verified, and you will be required to sign a declaration prior to starting your internship.
As part of BIG's Copenhagen office, you will:
Please upload your CV and portfolio with your application. Applications without a portfolio, a portfolio URL or a QR code linking to your portfolio will not be considered.
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, and interviews are conducted continuously.
Diversity has been part of our DNA since BIG’s foundation. A multitude of cultures and backgrounds creates a new point of reference which leads to amazing insights. At BIG, we celebrate and support diversity because it makes our team, work and the built environment better. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and take affirmative action to employ equally regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
BIG is a Copenhagen, New York, London, Barcelona, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Zurich, and Bhutan-based global architecture firm operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, interior design, landscape design, product design, and research & development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Oceania.
BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes, not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economic flows, and communication technologies that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. We believe that in order to deal with today’s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored.
A pragmatic utopian architecture that steers clear of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian ideas of digital formalism. Like a form of programmatic alchemy, we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking, and shopping. By hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia, we as architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet to better fit contemporary life forms.
BIG is committed to supporting its new parents and their families, and is a proud member of Pledge Parental Leave. While on leave, BIGsters will continue to receive all employee benefits previously provided including health insurance and will remain eligible for salary increases and bonuses, as well as 52 weeks of job security. We offer 18 weeks of total paid leave in addition to accrued vacation to extend the paid leave for primary caregivers, and 4 weeks paid leave for secondary caregivers.
