ÅS (NO) winner
Luca Moscelli (IT)
Raffaele Patitucci (IT)
UGO | Architecture
Angelo Renna (IT)
architect
and urban design ‘s-Gravendijkwal 125C
Davide Sacconi (IT)
3021EK Rotterdam,
architects
The Netherlands T. +31 639572859 mail@office-ugo.com www.office-ugo.com
334 En, to, tre…rødt lys! Team point of view Architecture can frame changes through space and over time as a means of defining an open field of possibilities, rather than being subject to the volatile demands of the market. The founding of a new civic dimension for Ås is marked through an enclosure, a boundary that identifies a space, providing a coherent frame for different potential speeds and intensities of development. Without strictly prescribing the quantities, programs and types of intervention, the project establishes a strategy of densification: three possible scenarios for growth within a field of possibilities. Such a strategy places the focus on existing resources, fostering a diversity of programs and subjects involved in the transformation and directing urban development while accommodating unforeseeable changes.
Scenario 1
Urban growth strategy
Jury point of view The project manages on the one hand to create a frame for development and on the other hand shows awareness that urban planning today is not about designing and controlling but about responding and adapting to an unpredictable future. This is realised through a literal ‘frame’ construction that ‘will embrace an open field of possibilities’. The project proposes a development in phases. The first phase integrates the existing buildings, which may be altered to incorporate further additions. Two more steps are described as possible future scenarios, with different levels of density.
Striated space
