Co-creating Architecture no. 2 EFFEKT

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Co-creating Architecture No. 2 EFFEKT ISBN 978-87-93341-02-9 © 2020 / 10 · Grafisk Design & Forlag 10 · Grafisk Design & Forlag Amsterdamvej 32, 1st floor DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark www.10gdf.dk info@10gdf.dk Editor: Birgitte Kleis, architect MAA Arkitekturformidling.dk Essay: Boris Brorman Jensen, architect MAA & PhD Essay translated by: Cornelius Holck Colding Design: Jesper Lind Jans, 10 · Grafisk Design & Forlag Printing: Narayana Press Photo credits: see page 104 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

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Contents

6 INTRODUCTION 8 INTERVIEW 32 PROJECTS

34 GELLERUP MASTER PLAN

40 CAMP ADVENTURE PARK

48 LEMVIG SKATEPARK

54 ROSENHØJ

60 KILDEVÆLD

COMMUNITY CENTRE

68 REGEN VILLAGES

74 MUSIC PLAZA

80 STREETMEKKA VIBORG

86 LIVSRUM

94 ESSAY

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102 PROJECT DATA

Introduction

The book series Co-creating Architecture takes a look at the Danish design studios that emerged during the 2000s and early 2010s. This generation of designers has blazed a trail in Danish architecture with their ability to offer sustainable answers to global, societal and social challenges in the shape of innovative and lasting design solutions.

The key to this is co-creation: a collaborative approach that opens up the creative process, inviting users, decision-makers and experts from a wide range of fields to participate in the development of projects.

The same openness characterizes their deliberate use of communication and new media as a powerful process tool that displaces any esoteric design jargon. The result is an architecture that can be used as an important strategic instrument in the development of society.

Each book in the series Co-creating Architecture consists of three parts: an interview, in which the featured architects describe their view and use of co-creation as a tool; a catalogue of completed and upcoming projects; and, finally, an outside perspective on the design practice with an analysis of its processes and solutions.

StreetMekka Esbjerg, a dilapidated train depot, is transformed into a venue for youth culture. The transformation process was guided by a series of on site co-creative workshops.

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This book introduces EFFEKT: ‘empathic designers’ who practice co-creation as an integral part of the design process, developing their projects in a constant dialogue with the world around them as a way to enhance the quality of the outcome.

According to managing partners Sinus Lynge and Tue Hesselberg Foged, this is because co-creation is very effective when it comes to developing innovative solutions that can help change the world.

Since setting up office in 2007, they have been developing projects in a constant dialogue with the world around them for the simple reason that it enhances the quality of the outcome. This open and communicative approach, which EFFEKT themselves call ‘empathic design’, is based on a concept developed in the Netherlands during the 1990s and 2000s.

For the dialogue to work, you have to ask the right questions.

Only then can you end up with the right answers in a project. Done properly, the creative dialogue can be a means of influencing and improving the world, says EFFEKT, and lead to socially sustainable environments for people.

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Interview

By Birgitte Kleis, architect MAA

‘Architecture doesn’t take place inside a closed room. It’s a close dialogue with the surrounding world when you design buildings and cities. In that sense, there is always an element of co-creation in the development of architecture.’

Sinus Lynge, EFFEKT

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Projects

34 GELLERUP MASTER PLAN

40 CAMP ADVENTURE PARK

48 LEMVIG SKATEPARK

54 ROSENHØJ

60 KILDEVÆLD

COMMUNITY CENTRE

68 REGEN VILLAGES

74 MUSIC PLAZA

80 STREETMEKKA VIBORG

86 LIVSRUM

Edited by Birgitte Kleis, architect MAA

• Location: Lemvig, Denmark • Client: Municipality of Lemvig, Realdania, Lokale- & Anlægsfonden, Statens Kunstfond • Collaborators: Søren V Jensen, Beaver Concrete, Glifberg+Lykke • Status: completed 2013

Lemvig Skatepark Sport & Leisure

Lemvig Skatepark is a prime example of how co-creation within architecture and placemaking can strengthen, develop and empower local communities.

Local kids wished to transform a leftover spot in the industrial harbour into a skatepark. To allow for a wide range of users, the project was developed in close collaboration with different representatives of the city’s population.

The design process transformed the original idea of mono-functional skate facility into a multifunctional 14

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and recreational harbour park offering a wide range of functions for all age groups and different users in the local community. Organic pathways were shaped into a skatepark, while pockets between the pathways were programmed with a variety of recreational functions.

Citizens of Lemvig took part in the creation of ideas as well as the actual construction of the park.

The entire process of designing and constructing the skatepark took no more than 16 weeks.

In a very short space of time, the facility has become a focal point, not only for locals from Lemvig but also for skaters from across the region.

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Essay

Co-creative Architecture

By Boris Brorman Jensen, architect MAA & PhD

Photo Credits

Cover photo: Rasmus Hjortshøj – COAST Studio Page 6: GAME Page 9: Lasse Martinussen Page 10–11: EFFEKT Page 14–15: Mads Krabbe Page 17: EFFEKT

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