Busy Bosse!
ALTA (NO) — SPECIAL MENTION
AUTHOR(S) — Tin Phan (NO), Urban theorist, architect
CONTACT — Gattaca + collaborators, Oslo (NO)
CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Wai Fung Chu (HK), Architect;
T. +47 45030748
Eakapobh Huangthanapan (TH), Architect-urbanist
tin@gattaca.no, www.gattaca.no
TEAM POINT OF VIEW — This entry presents an urban strategy and
design proposal based on the understanding of social, economic and urban conditions. It raises the question; if production is relocated from urban areas to the peripheries, are we not at risk of losing qualities, intrinsic to production areas, such as social networks, working cultures, knowledge exchange between professionals? The proposal reintroduces production and reinvents Bossekop as a converging meeting ground for cross-cultural and professional understanding. The design is a mediation between existing and new facilities, and different types of interactions with the harbourfront. Furthermore, a plan is added to facilitate the beneficial social networks among the different citizenship, in the afterlife of the design proposal.
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Hydro-Therapy
ALTA (NO) — SPECIAL MENTION
AUTHOR(S) — Victor Maréchal (FR), Architect;
CONTACT — Paris (FR), T. +33 643415979
Maria Fernanda Serna (CO), Landscape architect
victor.marechal@co-pra.fr, mariafeserna@gmail.com
TEAM POINT OF VIEW — With its sub-arctic climate and the
seaside position on the fjord, the city of Alta may become an exotic and attractive city if it develops a symbiotic relationship between both tourism and maritime productivity. The project finds in the potential of the algae culture from the sea a way to propose a complementary program involving research (laboratories) and well-being (thalassotherapy). The existing quay is dug to welcome public baths facilities and becomes a recreational platform in front of the fjord. Alta´s seafront will offer a revitalized landscape shared among inhabitants, tourists and workers. It creates a holistic seafront system that uses algae to link production and recreation. The sea is not only a living environment but becomes a field of production linked to a productive district.
