Reference studies

MADE IN SANDNES

V. REFERANCE STUDIES

*The municipality of Sandnes in Norway.

REFERANCE STUDIES I Sandnes

SIZE & DENSITY

Sandnes Municipality - 304 km² - 67 814 inhabitants - 223 inhabitants/km²

Tromsø urban settlement - 40 km² - 56 466 inhabitants - 1 411 inhabitants/km²

Stavanger Municipality - 71,4 km² - 127 506 inhabitants - 1 786 inhabitants/km²

Copenhagen Municipality - 74,4 km² - 549 050 inhabitants - 7 379 inhabitants/km²

Paris Municipality - 105 km² - 2 211 297 inhabitants - 21 060 inhabitants/km²

Manhattan - 59 km² - 1 585 873 inhabitants - 26 879 inhabitants/km²

“The colorstreet”, Stavanger, Norway

“Polaria”activity center Tromsø, Norway

“Elmegade” Nørrebro Copenhagen, Denmark

the wide avenues, Paris, France

Greenwich village New York, USA

CARS PER HOUSEHOLD

69% 18%

STAVANGER

78% 35%

SANDNES

Both in Sandnes and Stavanger, around 70 % of the households has a car.

However in Sandnes half of these households has two cars or more.

MAIN TRAFFIC

Sandnes was initially a crossroad between Stavanger and Bryne.

And still most of the traffic goes through Sandnes.

Both train and cars.

PROJECTED POPULATION

130 000 120 000 110 000 100 000 90 000 80 000 70 000 60 000 50 000 40 000 30 000 20 000 10 000 1990

1995

2000

2012

2020

2030

2040

Sandnes is Norways fastest growing city. And it is predicted to continue to grow rapidly for the next 30 years. The projected population for Sandnes in 2020 is around 95 000 people, which predicts a growth of 28 000 in just the next 8 years.

WORKPLACES

In Sandnes most of the workplaces are outside of the city centre. Forus, the bigg office park between Sandnes and Stavanger provides for over half of the regions workplaces. While the city centre of Sandnes only represent around 20%.

*The site of V책gen, in the city of Sandnes, Norway.

REFERANCE STUDIES II V책gen

DEVELOPEMENT SITES

Vågen, Sandnes, Norway - 81 000 m²

Barcode, Oslo, Norway - 52 000 m²

Borneo sporenburg, Amsterdam, Nederland - 309 500m²

Carlsberg, Copenhagen, Denmark - 420 000m²

Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, Finland - 1 000 000 m²

Ørestaden, Copenhagen, Denmark - 3 100 000 m²

Ile De Nantes, Nates, France - 3 370 000 m²

Barcode, Oslo, Norway

Carlsberg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Borneo -sporenburg, Amsterdam, Nederland

Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, Finland

Ørestaden, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ile de Nantes, Nantes, France

RECREATIONAL SITES

Vågen, Sandnes, Norway - 81 000 m²

The opera roof, Oslo, Norway - 2o ooo m²

Superkilen, Copenhagen, Denmark - 33 000 m²

Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark - 82 700 m²

Parc du Champ de Mars, Paris, France - 313 100 km²

Vigelandsparken, Oslo, Norway - 320 000 m²

The Opera roof, Oslo, Norway

Superkilen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark

Parc De Champs Du Mars, Paris, France

Vigelandspark, Oslo, Norway

*The site of V책gen, in the city of Sandnes, Norway.

REFERANCE STUDIES III Elements of the site

The Silo, Sandnes, Norway

THE SILO

Sandnes has a history where industry was the vital part of the city. And there are traces of this industry in the very center at the city. One of these traces is a 50 meter high silo. This silo was buildt without permission, and the building is not very popular in Sandnes.

However, the silo is a landmark, not just representing the history of the city, but it is also a physical landmark, as a way to orient youself in the city, as a recognisable volume.

The silo as a important element of our site, and could be the key to the identity of the new developed area, at the same time as it could be an important aspect of connecting the new developement to the rest of the city, and its history.

NL Architects Climbing wall + Sport & Culture center Zeeburg, Nederland

NL Architects Climbing wall + Sport & Culture center Zeeburg, Nederland

MDRDV Apartments Copenhagen, Denmark

C.F.Møller Architects+Christian Carlsen apartments Copenhagen, Denmark

HRTB AS Arkitekter Student housing Oslo, Norway

Dorthe MAdrup Aps Arkitekter Studenthousing+Youth Center JĂŚgersberg, Denmark

The west side of Sandnes; the grid structure.

The east side of Sandnes; the organic structures.

THE TWO SIDES OF THE CITY

The city center of Sandnes is divided in two urban structures.

On the west side of the fjord the city follows a more strict gridplan, while on the east side the city follows a more organic organisation, following the shapes of the landscape.

Our site, beeing a landfill inbetween, could with our site connect these two structures.

Torgallmenningen, Bergen, Norway

THE NEW ALMENNING

In Sandnes there are plenty of horisontal connectors, but the cross connectors are missing.

In Norwegian urban planning traditions the Almenning, was a very common and important space, connecting the city with both the sea and the mounitains.

In Sandnes there is a need for this cross connector of the two sides of the city.

quatro canti, Palermo, Sicily

Piazza Pretoria, Palermo, Sicily

THE PLAZA

The city of Sandnes should have also have a direct connector with the sea and the valley.

At the crossing of these two new connectors both the sea, the valley and the two sides of the city is connected.

As in the roman urban planning, this cross is a important point in the city; it is the heart of the city.

Here we would like to introduce another new element two the city of Sandnes; the plaza.