The Town Hall Project_Program by Landscape Studio

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Frederiksberg Have The Garden of Frederiksberg

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1. The Town Hall

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The Town Hall Project Landscape studio 2021

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Colofon Stu de nts Lin Jordal-Jørgensen rqk174@alumni.ku.dk

Aleksandra Aasen Rønning tcp617@alumni.ku.dk

Sine Krogsgaard Ballisager khb998@alumni.ku.dk

Özge Kübra Gürkan qdz512@alumni.ku.dk

Emilie Kjærgaard Larsen bgq483@alumni.ku.dk

William Schnoor fpc242@alumni.ku.dk

Emil Hessner Bentsen tkd492@alumni.ku.dk

Amalie Krarup Hansen qgv890@alumni.ku.dk

Louise Bjørg Brorson Mammen brz144@alumni.ku.dk

Emmeline Viktoria Skovbjerg wt730@alumni.ku.dk

Helena Maria Berggren hmr780@alumni.ku.dk

Henrik Færgemann Hansen dlj759@alumni.ku.dk

Sofie Nørbak zsq894@alumni.ku.dk

Anna Lotti Linnea Sundström xgd469@alumni.ku.dk

Aivars Berzins zfw864@alumni.ku.dk

Stine Holmbo Hansen gcr258@alumni.ku.dk

Nur Hatun Öksüm kgt992@alumni.ku.dk

Esther Rothe Urioste thg433@alumni.ku.dk

Karl Bjørndal lnc667@alumni.ku.dk

Mathilde Skovgaard Helmstedt sdg605@alumni.ku.dk

Leander Olkner lvn621@alumni.ku.dk

Marianne Videbæk vmb481@alumni.ku.dk

Louis Simonne P Buerms cfh125@alumni.ku.dk

Hanna Höhne gps642@alumni.ku.dk

Olya Panchovska xfj467@alumni.ku.dk

Silvia Viola wdm772@alumni.ku.dk

Andrada-Adriana Chira kcj666@alumni.ku.dk

Sofie Mandrup Holm vbg449@alumni.ku.dk

Emma-Kirstine M. L Pedersen clm141@alumni.ku.dk

My Louise von Christierson dwp511@alumni.ku.dk

Ming Ki Chow stv808@alumni.ku.dk

Claudia Jaegerman mvh226@alumni.ku.dk

Kristian Langæble Pedersen pvf839@alumni.ku.dk

Victor Helbo Wagner ndv238@alumni.ku.dk

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Pr ac t ic al inf or m at ion

Peter Lundsgaard Hansen, plh@ign.ku.dk- Course responsible and design curator. Ellen M. Braae, embra@ign.ku.dk - COVID-19 backup Torben Dam, toda@ign.ku.dk. Jens Nyboe Andersen, jensnyboeandersen@gmail.com. Online suppervision. Mette Væde Lykkebo, kjm371@alumni.ku.dk.Teaching Assistent

COVID-19 NOTE: All lectures and meetings will be announced accordingly to the calendar and held on the meeting platform ZOOM if not otherwise indicated. Zoom invitations will be send out in advance.

E dit orial tea m Mette Væde Lykkebo, kjm371@alumni.ku.dk. Editor Thomas Lindtorp Pedersen, ztr462@alumni.ku.dk. Editor Peter Lundsgaard Hansen, plh@ign.ku.dk. Editor

A rchive in Actio n Peter Lundsgaard Hansen

Connec t ion

Supervision; the team of supervisors are available during the course (see calendar where it says Studio work). Please remember to make appointments in advance by mail. Meetings and supervision will be on ZOOM. A ZOOM meetings in plenum - for detailed information and general talk is every monday and thursday according to the calendar on page 14 (invitations will be sendt to your KU mails). Handins will as a rule be uploaded to designated folders on Absalon (tba)

www.landscapestudio17.tumblr.com Front page. Project concept. Opposite page. General site plan and base map for ‘Collision’ 1 and 2.

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Louise Helmbo Bækgaard ksz732@alumni.ku.dk

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Table of Contents Th e To w n H a l l Pr o j e c t

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Landscape Studio is the Method

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Virtual Design Conversation

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Calendar

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The Town Hall Project Imagine if we could ‘Google street view’ Denmark one thousand years back? Or how would Frederiksberg look like just a couple of hundreds years ago when it was situated well outside the walls of Copenhagen? The city of Copenhagen has expanded and today Frederiksberg is an island surronded by Copenhagen on all sides. So, how will it develop in the future and how will the Town Hall of Frederiksberg define the administrative center? This is where Landscape Studio 2021 takes its departure.

Introduction

Frederiksberg is its own municipality with its own ‘village-like’ identity and legacy. One characteristic is that Frederiksberg is the densest urban metropolitan area in northern Europe. At the same time the municipality of Frederiksberg pride itself by being a green municipality – with trees in every street. There are many voices in the work of a landscape architect and also in this assignment. Some are part of a greater perspective and of a political nature. Others relate to everyday life: to traffic, business affaires, climate, recreation and

“Frederiksberg is the densest urban metropolitan area in northern Europe ” general life in the city. A common ground for them all is that they become parts and bits of a conversation about urban life. Let me voice a few. This year the Minister of the Environment, Lea Wermelin, has sent a formal letter to all 98 municipalities of Denmark (including Frederiksberg) in witch she encourages them to compete to be the ‘Wildest municipality of Denmark’. The reason is that Danish nature (this is the term laymen use broadly and that we will not) needs more space and therefore all municipalities are

invited to enter a competition that will stretch into the year 2022. In the other end of the spectra other conversations can be heard. The municipality have, for some time, worked together with private business owners and inhabitants of Allégade. In this process they have focused on future potentials for this historical cradle of Frederiksberg. The first process has aimed to bring Allégades many actors and users together and to address the need for a more clear identity for

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Frederiksberg Commercial Center CBS

Allégade. Another conversation (and the spark that sets everything off) is that of the municipality of Frederiksberg is planning to remove the parking lot behind the Town Hall and to build underground parking facilities instead. By the time they ‘put the lit back on the top deck’ it

“There are many voices in the work of a landscape architect and also in this assignment” is nessesary to know what kind of urban landscape there should be in this big open space behind the Town Hall. This is where You come into the picture. This years approach to wild nature will be of a rather positive perspective. This year we will focus our attention on an urban landscape in Frederiksberg. The area is defined by ‘Smallegade’ and ‘Allégade’ and the offset is the remodelling and restoration of the parking lot behind - and across the Town Hall.

The Town Hall Project

The Town Hall Project is the working title of a new urban landscape where the Town Hall and ‘Smallegade’ intersects ‘Allégade’ and continues down towards ‘Frederiksberg Runddel’. With an understanding of landscapes as both system and physical construction we will add to the puzzle of Frederiksberg and combine contemporary concepts of ‘nature in the

The parking Lot

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city’, challenges of rising water levels (due to climate changes), heritage, identity, focus on access to recreational space and future business. The Town Hall Project is also a sanitary project (sustainability) camouflaged in a system of new public space, water bodies, remodelled edges, and terrain work that combine existing plantings with new ones into a ‘beautiful’ future strategy for Frederiksberg. We shall name this kind of sustainability for ‘capital nature’.

“You will be working on the site where Frederiksberg first started to grow. ” These are some of the ideas that will foreground the assignment of Landscape Studio 2021.

The assignment

The assignment is to plan, design and communicate a public landscape along-, around the corner- and across the selected site

Historical map. 1766 in- and around The Town Hall of Frederiksberg. The assignment poses 3 dedicated aims that must be addressed in one-way or the other according to each design: (A) the transformation of the parking lot into new function(s), (B) to connect the new landscape with the front of the Town Hall and its close build environment (C) and lastly to present an accessible public landscape that meets contemporary demands for sustainable urban landscapes as indicated in the introduction. This includes conscious work with Allégade/Smallegade and the inner side of Frederiksberg Garden – including its access points. The assignment is situated in a historical area that represents the centre of Frederiksberg. Therefore you must imagine many interests groups to voice opinions into your own Design Conversation. The assignment is phased (see Virtual Design Conversation p. 12), open and with few initial limitations.

70% ‘more or less’

The number has become known

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Frederiksberg Town Hall

Frederiksberg Have The Garden of Frederiksberg

Frederiksberg Rundel ‘Roundabout’

Arial photo of the Town Hall and context.

in Denmark and 70% has become synonym with the new Danish Government. The number represents, in 1. Project site governmental climate goals, the aim to reduce CO2 emission by 70% by the year 2050. Landscape Studio 2021 invites you to come up with creative strategies/directions/and concrete ideas 2. Strategical Site 3. ‘Frederiksberg Have’ to concretize what 70% means to you as Landscape Architects in your project. How can you (in you design) contribute to the number 70? A question could be: does 70% always mean less of something? Project site & Strategical site:The Town Hall area, Frederiksberg and ‘Fred-Can the number mean 70% more eriksberg Have’.

of something? (e.g. newly planted trees, more green surfaces and so forth). The 70% is open for your reflective

“How can you (in you design) contribute to the number 70? ” interpretations. The ambition is to create a contemporary urban landscape that meets the cultural and economical demands for the future as well as the demands we have fore a sustainable liveable city.

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Frederiksberg Commercial center

1. Project Site

Allégade

Frederiksberg Town Hall

3. Frederiksberg ’Have’ The Town Hall parking lot seen from Møsting Hus. March 2021.

Context

The design must balance combinations of large-scale strategies and small-scale dedications. Therefore, each design must elaborate on the relation to its urban context. The proposal must consider principles for storm water management on a local level depending on the idea. Also the proposals must consider plant materials and surfaces of the urban floor with consider-

able detail. The design program aims to secure smallscale

“The design must balance combinations of large-scale strategies and smallscale dedications” functions and local identity in a reality where the site consists of

both public and private spaces. Interventions along and in proximity to existing (or future) bicycle, and pedestrian path can be identified, designed in greater detail and used for such local identity purposes.

The proposals shall reflect and contributes to an on-going discussion regarding capital nature, its structural, economical and cultural significance in our cities today.

Landscape Studio 2021 embraces creative solutions to classic chalNew build structure, such as cul- lenges. Good luck and safe (Apoltural and/or smaller pavilions can lo) flight! be introduced into the design depending on the idea.

Build structures

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Apollo team 9

Apollo team 10

CONNECTION

Apollo team 8 Conversation E (external supervision)

Conversation A (Office meetings and introductions)

Conversation C

Conversation b

(team work:internal team meetings, sketching, planning and evaluating)

Apollo team 1

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Conversation f (Editors and assistent supervisors, )

Cam. 1- Mac Peter 1

Cam. 2- Logitech Peter 2

Conversation D

Vertical Projector

Archive in Action: Books & and references

(Peer feedback, Supervision and Rotating Sally)

Cam. 2 - “Bergman”

Virtual Vertical Design Conversation Zone Apollo: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Apollo team 2

Apollo team 6

Proces Board

1:1500

enter / exit Peter 4

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Conversation G

Apollo team 3

(External partners, clients and interest groups)

Landscape Studio is the Method

Landscape Studio - Ideas

Landscape Studio 2020 taught us that, more than anything, Land-

scape Studio is a ‘connection’ that we have with eachother’s ideas for change, and a professional ‘connectedness’ to the sciences we cross-travle to achive them. Ideas are the parent of change and the fuel that drives creative work in Landscape Studio. However, ideas are never enough. In the studio what matters is how ideas are achieved, how they are transformed

from vocalized language into concepts, strategies and to physical form. Defining such a specialized process warrants a unique direction in which architectural ideas are developed beyond imagination and metaphor. So, in developing our designs we continuously encourage that the idea must expand and sediment itself in the drawing to achieve direction. All this ofre-

grounds a form of preformance. Ideas are shared fast. In the studio, we experience the force of contingency and the improbable combinations of events when ideas are exchanged between fellow designers. The result can be messy when ideas are lost in translation or they fall into the category of good intentions. The design process suffers if the exchange has no direction and no me-

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Group Contracts and The Post

Landscape Studio ‘Ground Control System’ “No access”

Conversation f Apollo team 5

(Editors and assistent supervisors, )

Apollo team 4

THE VIRTUAL OFFICE OF 2021 & Studio ‘Versailles’, 2nd floor.

The Apollo 13 Class. Versailles is transformed into a broardcasting room or a kind of Ground Control.

We want to be where language is made. Everything we make, built, write, unmake and rebuild in the office evolves around this endeavour. This is Landscape Studio. However, in 2021 the question is where is Landscape Studio?

Whiteboard & soft board

Design Conversation Mapping

dium that supports observation and inquiry. Therefore, we try to slow down the exchange of ideas at certain intervals in order to achieve the desired expansion. Drawing techniques and simple models play central roles in this process and they are both slow and fast at the same time.

Landscape Studio - The Apollo Class

Design Conversation is a Landscape Studio method preformed under a powerful vertical projector in a curated room we call thick space. However, in 2020 everything

changed and also in 2021 you will be working at home (‘connected’ in a group). We will be in proximity through a digital connection and at the same time discant from each other, without a common space to supports observation and inquiry. The ‘classroom’ is where I will broardcast and support you and your group in the design process. The drawing is still the medium through which we are connected to the idea. Maby even more so. We make drawings to perform, repeat and rehearse in order to construct the physical grammar needed to

transform vocalized language into drawings that can perform the idea. It is often iconic landscape typologies that we find in our language. Through these repeated activities (specified in the calendar) and actions the idea can expand beyond the metaphor. We draw structures of the landscape typologies: the entrance (what kind? primary or secondary? context? how many?), a path (where to? how wide? the material? soft or hard?) and a forest (scale? what kind? how do you establish it? do we have a reference? draw the dots!). We continue to a thicket, a clearing,

a row of trees, buildings and etc. We draw every word we can and then we write a new word. Although the conversation works as a forward movement, the mediation between computer and hand drawings - the hybrid nature of pencil and projected image – allow us to turn back, rewind, zoom in and examine. We continue with the making and unmaking of the image. We look at it again. We draw and withdraw. We combine in ordet to synthesize! - we never add or multiply. Welcome to Landscape Studio.

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Introduction I & II “Collision” Individual

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Introduction I & II Design by Reference “Collision” Individual W19

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Rotating Sally

Group Talks & “Hand over” “Group Collision” W20

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Apollo 1 Apollo 1 + Apollo 10

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FromSession “individual” toHand “group” Hand over back ession

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Rotating Sally

Studio Work & Design by Reference “Hand back” Mockup Posters

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Studio Work Exit I Final Paper

Rotating Sally “Hand back” W21

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Hand over Session Open Office Hand back ession

Running Posters

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Apollo 1 + Apollo 10

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Feedback A2

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Open Office

Running Posters Censor

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Studio Work Exit I Final Paper W23

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Open Office

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Apollo 3 Apollo 2 + Apollo 9

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Collisions - individual work

Draft

Apollo 3 + Apollo 8

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A6 + A4

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Apollo 2 + Apollo 9

Feedback

A3 + A8

A7 + A3

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Apollo 3 + Apollo 8

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Apollo 4 + Apollo 7

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Apollo 9 PLH

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Studio Work & Studio Work & Exit II Mockup Posters Final Poster Handin

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Virtual Design Conversation: Strategy board for ZOOM meetings is planned and broardcasted from the Studio. The Apollo class, 2021.

Virtual Design Conversation Phases

The assignment is phased (curated through our activities), open and with few initial limitations and can be divided into three overall phases. The first phase of the assignment is to produce a Collision (combination of collage techniques, drawing, notation and visionary thinking). This phase can be seen as an overall explorative study of the problems and potentials – creatively elaborated in conceptual ideas for change. The second phase is to develop a master plan. The third phase focuses on selected sites within the

master plan to develop, explore and to detail their inherent potential for change. The calendar (page 14) shows the scheduled activities shown in the strategy board. Since the course is a full time course, it is expected that the students/groups, outside of the scheduled activities, find the necessary time for preparation. NOTE. Changes may occur. Therefore, remember to check your emails every morning and afternoon.

Below: Documented Design conversations selected from The Strategy board. From the Apollo Class of 2020. Litterature related to Landscape Studio and The Design Conversation: The Campfire Design Studio : Design conversations in landscape architecture education. / Hansen, Peter Lundsgaard; Dam, Torben; Le Goffic, Virginie Corinne; Braae, Ellen Marie. In: Edinburgh Architecture Research, Vol. 34, 2016, p. 6380. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article Simple Models Create Steep Learning Curves in Academic Design Studio. / Hansen, Peter Lundsgaard; Dam, Torben; Le Goffic, Virginie Corinne; Braae, Ellen Marie. In: Fusion Journal, Vol. 003, 2014. Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article

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Examination Note: Please do not arrange hollidays in the examination week.

exhibitition eval and goodbyes

*VDC is Virtual (formerly Vertical) Design Conversation. Feedback.

EXIT II: Studio work & digital poster (Exam) 2’nd Exams talk

Preparation

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ZOOM Meeting

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Rotating Sally & Studio work handin 3 & 1’st paper upload (tba)

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Reference

ZOOM Exhibition Intro: Plans in motion by Mette & Thomas

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Preparation ZOOM Meeting intro 3’rd

Paper 1 ZOOM Mette & Thomas

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Kristi himmelfart

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1 1/2 handin Upload Group Collision

Crit and *VDC

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ZOOM Groups (tba)

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PLH & co. Program & philosophy

ZOOM Exhibition/ intro: Handin1 1/2 - group work

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ZOOM

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Studio work

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1’st handin Upload Collision

Store Bededag

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ZOOM PLH Program & Collision

Design by Reference, detail referencestudies handin 2

First Group work/ Site’visit’/sketch/ notations/ handin 1 1/2

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