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Contents Inspiration and attraction.................................19 New urban spaces and landscapes...................21 Espressing the vision......................................67 Contact us...................................................70
Henning Larsen Architects has several years experience of designing new, vibrant urban quarters in abandoned harbour areas. On the following pages we will describe some of these projects. Water is a driving force of inspiration and harbours have great potentials. Urban development begins by putting the vision into words and pictures – the vision that may become of great value to a city.
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Inspiration and attraction Attraction Many cities have great opportunities to develop and create an image for themselves. The competition between cities has become tough and therefore opportunities need to be explored in the best possible way. When a harbour has no life and leaves a decaying urban environment it will additionally generate major potentials for the city. For centuries, centuries, water water has has been beenthe themost mostimportant importantway of transportation. way of transportation. The ships The ships transported transported goodsgoods from all over from all the overworld the world into the into middle the middle of the of cities. the cities. Thus, the industrial Thus, the industrial harbours harbours often dominated often dominated the city’s contact the city’swith contact the water. with the However, water. the However, transportation the of goods has changed transportation of goodsfundamentally. has changed The fundamentally. ships haveships The become have larger become and must largerdock and must in specially dock in made harbours. specially made harbours. As a resultAsmany a result cities many are left cities with are empty left withharbour empty areas. harbour The areas. industrial The industrial life that occurred life that around thearound occurred harbours the moved harbours outmoved of the city, out of along the with city, the infrastructure. along with the infrastructure. A city city is is aa living livingorganism organismthat thatgiven giventhe the right right circumstancesand andvitamins vitaminswill willgrow. grow. New quarters circumstances New quarters will will evolve providing new experiences. evolve providing new experiences. UrbanUrban development development by the offers an by the water offers anwater opportunity for opportunity creating an for creating an attractive attractive urban space.urban Water space. inspires,Water calmsinspires, and calms and provides air and light. Deserted harbour provides air and light. Deserted harbour areas are a great to aiscity that to is develop aiming toand aareas greatare asset to a asset city that aiming developnew andcitizens attract new citizens and investments. attract and investments.
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Advantages of developing a harbour: › Inspiration – The sea is an attraction › New urban spaces – The harbour will develop the city › History – Existing buildings offer variation and provide local anchoring › Sustainability – Water is a resource that can be used for designing energy-friendly buildings › Visibility – The water front is a way to create an image for the city
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New Urban spaces and landscapes Not many years ago the harbours in many cities were full of life. They were the cities’ lifeblood and a connection to the surrounding world. Ships loaded with goods from all continents would dock in the harbours. Here they were met by swarms of people and a flourishing business life. Today small ships play a minor role whereas large, modern ships dock in specially made industrial harbours. This leaves many cities with large deserted harbour areas, which are now characterised by the life that once was. According to Peer Teglgaard Jeppesen, Design Director and architect at Henning Larsen Architects, a harbour area is an incredible opportunity for a city. ‘Many cities experience difficulties in developing within the city centre. Urban development often occurs in the periphery, where it is difficult to locate recreational functions. A closed down harbour area is a fantastic way of developing a city. We dream of all the future prospects for the cities that we live in. With the water as an attraction and source of inspiration these dreams can become reality,’ he says. › 23
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The Wave is a residential settlement to be built at the shoreline of Vejle Fjord in Denmark. With its sculptural and organic forms and a magnificent location overlooking the promenade and the bay it will become a new landmark for Vejle. The Wave is inspired by the characteristics of the area: the fjord, the bridge, the town and the hills. --The Wave, Vejle Client: The Municipality of Vejle Investor: Ejendomsselskabet Bertel Nielsen A/S Gross Floor Area: 14,000 m² Construction Period: 2007-2009
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Building by the sea Buildings by the sea have always been very attractive. This attracts important investments to the business world and provides great visibility for the cultural institutions that may be part of shaping a city, nationally as well as abroad. Today it is important for a city to brand itself to find or develop something unique. The struggle to attract new citizens and create local economic growth depends on the city’s cultural offers and the excistence of potentials for developers and investors. ‘Water is light and air. You feel in contact with nature, which brings peace of mind. This should be of benefit to all citizens. Thus, it is profitable to open up the harbours, in order to make them public domain,’ Peer Teglgaard Jeppesen says. ‘There needs to be harbour promenades and cultural life at the old docks. However, there also needs to be a varied urban life with housing and business life. This will generate a more vibrant city.’ › 30
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The East Harbour Project revitalises the area around the eastern harbour in Reykjavik. The project comprises an 100,000 m² masterplan with the overall objective to improve the connection between the city centre and the harbour. The project includes a number of significant buildings for cultural and mixed use. --East Harbour Project, Reykjavik Client: Asturhofn – East Harbour Project Gross Floor Area: 100,000 m² Design Period: 2005 Team: Henning Larsen Architects
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The Water Plaza is a square placed on the boundary between city and ocean. As such it provides the transition from the present yet distant ocean into a perceptive and sensuous experience that can be felt and sensed as water, ice, fog, mist and reflections. Here the water will be in a constant
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The crystalline form of the building appears like a kaleidoscope with constantly changing images with new colours and amazing geometrical figures and patterns depending on the intensity of the light and on the altitude of the sun.
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The elevated paths of the Cultural Walkway flow as lava streams into the Water Plaza where they disintegrate into directions leading to the main entrance of the Concert and Conference Centre (CCC), the cafe, the pavilion or to a view of the ocean. Beneath the elevated paths lie tilted surfaces rendering the uneasy ocean. The tilted surfaces vary from 3 - 15 cm under the elevated paths thus still making it possible to walk on the entire square. Hence the square can also be used for a short rest or for a concert in the summer time.
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The Icelandic National Concert & Conference Centre gathers inspiration from the northern lights and the dramatic Icelandic nature. Situated in Reykjavik on the boundary between the land and the sea, the building stands out like a radiant sculpture reflecting both sky and harbour space as well as the vibrant life of the city. The Icelandic National Concert & Conference Centre, Reykjavik Client: Asturhofn – East Harbour Project Gross Floor Area: 23,000 m² Construction Period: 2005-2009 Team: Henning Larsen Architects, Olafur Eliasson, Artec, Lisbeth Westergaard, Batteriid Arkitektar, Landsafl, IPC, Portus Group, Rambøll, Hönnun and Hnit
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Open to interpretation The harbour is a landscape that is open to interpretation. It would be an asset to maintain parts of the existing buildings and thereby anchoring a new quarter in the city as part of the local history. Cities need the local history in order to create a sense of cohesion that gives a quarter its characteristics. The waterfront, which more or less has lost its function, has the potential of being redesigned to optimally fit the vision that supports the development. An opportunity is to build or dig into the harbours and thereby create new islands and canals. This way the recreational potential of the water will be used to a higher degree. For many years we have discussed the green city, however, the blue city may as well offer great experiences and provide the city with new qualities. ‘When building new developments you need to consider whether to include the harbour and the sea. How much can you build and how is it at all possible to build in the harbour area? What about the density? Can you strengthen the city centre by building in the harbour?’ says Peer Teglgaard Jeppensen, ‘the harbour is an open invitation.’ > 38
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Vatnsmýri The proposal for the 1,606,600 m² site at Vatnsmýri is based on the existing qualities of the site. As it is today, the strong layout of the runway will also in the future be a strong identity for a new modern mixed-use urban district. Thereby creating an omnipresent link between the history and the future. The vision is to create a varied and versatile urban district based on sustainable ideas promoting the settings for manifold and dynamic urban living. The ideas focus on reinforcing the many surrounding qualities - urban as well as natural - drawing them into the new urban quarter, while maintaining the qualities and the history of the area. Thus, a natural link to the existing city is created; the urban quarter is integrated as well as preserving its unique identity.
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The floating hotel › A new, flexible building method › Best possibilities for sustainable buildings › Opens for new, urban visions The floating hotel in the Copenhagen harbour is a proposal that Henning Larsen Architects designed in collaboration with Multiconsult and LMG Marin. The hotel is carbon neutral and the building’s energy consumption is reduced with 70 %. Among others the building uses: › Passive solar heating › Solar heating panels for hot water › Solar cells › Daylight optimisation › Heat recovery › Seawater cooling › Seawater heating › Rainwater retrieval › Wind power › Balanced ventilation › Lighting controlled as required › LED lighting › High-level insulation constructions
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Potentials by the water The water in the harbour holds a possibility for utilizing the other potentials of the water. For example the water may be used actively to lower the city’s use of energy or for environmentally sound solutions in the new city developments. Thus, the water is a resource of sustainable possibilities. A building standing on the bottom of the sea can, among others, use water as a source of cooling and heating. Additionally, this is an attractive solution for locations where you need to consider water ow and environment. Later, the building can be moved and keep up with the development of the city. > 47
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Umeå Water City Historically, the river formed the vital connection for Umeå. At the time the city was orientated towards the water, but today it has turned its back to the river. The proposal by Henning Larsen Architects is a radical vision for Umeå’s front towards the river. Through relatively modest urban changes Umeå could become a new city by, on, in and under the river. A new quarter is added to the existing city centre and can gradually be developed into a zone of activity that draws the river in and makes the water flow through the city as an integrated part.
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The colleges of design and art in Umeå, Sweden, are the pillars of the project for a new arts campus. Together with a new school of architecture and a public photography museum, the new common campus area will spread by the banks of the Umeå river. The unique location by the water, the vicinity to Umeå city centre and the promenade along the river all contribute to the ideal setting for a vibrant and dynamic university campus with public and recreational activities. --Umeå Arts Campus, Sweden Client: Baltic Group Gross Floor Area: 13,000 m² Team: Henning Larsen Architects and White Architects, Umeå
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The proposal for a new landmark in Aarhus has a simple, precise form. In the motion from the sea towards the town the outline constantly changes form and dynamism. A shape with physics that is bevelled and reflecting like the water surface, reaching for the vault of heaven. It is an exchange between heaven and sea. --Landmark in Aarhus Harbour Client: NCC Design Period: 2006 Team: Henning Larsen Architects, Schmidt Hammer Lassen
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Visibility There are many examples all over the world of how architecture provides great knowledge of a city. It is not only the visibility by the water that supplies the building with the many qualities described in this article. A location by the harbour equally generates great visibility. This goes for all initiatives – regardless of size. It is not all cities that need to have an opera at the wharf. If visibility is present a harbour can easily attract some of the life that disappeared with the ships.
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In 2000 the municipality of Copenhagen commissioned a development of the entire Copenhagen Harbour from three design studios. The harbour area was sub-divided into sectors – among which was the inner harbour. Henning Larsen Architects was commissioned to analyse the area and outline different alternative solutions. A common feature of the proposals was to define the harbour fairway as unifying – visually tying together the city across the harbour. The project envisions the water surface of the harbour as the floor and the sky as the ceiling, the “walls” were lacking to define the (harbour) space. Thus, it was recommended to establish large elements in the shape of buildings on each side of the harbour fairway. Irrespective of function no building may “turn its back” to the harbour. On the contrary the buildings must compliment already defined plans of public promenades and squares along the entire harbour fairway with the purpose of stressing and strengthening previous initiated activities. --Copenhagen Inner Harbour Client: The City of Copenhagen Design Period: 2000
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The Opera is placed in a unique and beautiful location in the central harbour of Copenhagen facing Amalienborg, the Royal residence, an exceptional, monumental building complex. The Opera is a large building in the townscape. Its appearance as a distinctive, inviting building that generates activity in the central harbour is emphasized. The arrival plaza stretches into the harbour, thus creating the space necessary for outdoor activities. To underline the location of the Opera in the harbour, a separate island is created around the building. Opera, Copenhagen Client: The A.P. Møller and Chastine McKinney Møller Foundation Construction Period: 2002-2004 Gross Floor Area: 41,000 m² Team: Henning Larsen Architects, Rambøll, Hannemann & Højlund A/S, Buro Happold, Arup Acoustic
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Nordea Headquarters is part of a Henning Larsen Architects’ masterplan for the redevelopment of a former shipyard site. The interaction between the exquisite baroque church, the church garden, the city to the east and the harbour entrance to the west makes it an ex-traordinary building. The complex consists of four long buildings facing the harbour and a Ushaped building bordering Strandgade to the east. --Nordea Headquarters, Copenhagen Client: ATP Construction Period: 1997-2000
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Spiegel’s new headquarters will be located on Ericusspitze in HafenCity in Hamburg’s inner harbour. The two clearly readable figures at the same time provide each building a measured meaning and a significant value in relation to creating identity for all the surrounding public spaces. Client: ABG Allgemeine Bauträgergesellschaft mbH & Co. and Spiegel Group Gross Floor Area: 50,000 m² Team: Henning Larsen Architects and Arup
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Odense Docks is characterized by its industrial past and raw expression with large silos and old railway tracks crossing the terrain. The concept of Henning Larsen Architects’ masterplan has been to expand the city and its expression and street system into the harbour area. The vicinity of the water has been utilized optimally, integrated everywhere possible with views and recreational potential. --Odense Docks, Odense Construction period: 2003-2007 Team: Henning Larsen Architects, Schönherr Landskab, Rambøll
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Expressing the vision
Masterplan
Many cities are changing. The cityscapes are changing when industries move away leaving great areas with no life. This provides great opportunities for the city to develop and create an image for itself. To formulate a vision of an empty urban area is just as urgent and necessary as it is complex.
Together with the consultant, the city and the client can specify a masterplan for an area. Some overall guideline directions will be formulated for a long building course to be finalised into a continuous whole.
It is not necessary to have a clear vision before you tackle the work. As soon as the early stages it is a good idea to have a dialogue with an architect. Henning Larsen Architects is available at an early idea stage to help the vision become reality. The architects have vast experience of analysing and visualising building programmes. Collaboration may begin with stating an overall vision for an area. A volume study will often be the first and best step to take. It can provide important answers before any decisions are made for the final function and before the visions for an area are made. How will the building relate to the existing buildings and the rest of the city? What about density? How tall is it possible to make the building? Where to locate the open spaces?
A masterplan comes to life through dialogue with various partners. User groups can contribute significantly and be part of defining a number of and different types of necessary functions. However, they might lack a picture of how these functions can be organised. This exercise will often be helpful in organising the programme, as you are given the opportunity to see several ways of using each function when the individual locations are indicated. A masterplan is part of forming a general view of how many square metres that will be necessary for building. Subsequently, it is possible to determine price, time schedule and stages to form a general view of the project’s overall economy. >69
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Organisation of the project To get the project off to a good start there needs to be a clear organisation of the project team. It needs to be easily disseminated for it to reach all members of the organisation. The architect may work as the client’s project manager and manager and as the person who has an overall outline of the entire building project. The process of realising the vision is kicked off as early as at the organisation stage of the project team. It is important that the team posseses all the necessary expertise. Today architects work closely together with many different professionals from engineers to traffic economists to artists. Henning Larsen Architects has designed and completed many buildings in Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Denmark. The buildings range from universities and schools, congress and concert halls, commercial buildings, libraries and housing. Many buildings are based on a masterplan, which is the overall vision for an area.
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Henning Larsen Architects Henning Larsen Architects was founded in 1959 by Henning Larsen and is an international architectural company with strong Scandinavian roots. With almost 50 years of experience the company has a thorough insight into the dynamics of a building design and its interplay with the surroundings. This value-based approach is key to the design of numerous buildings throughout the world – from complex masterplans to successful building-icons. Henning Larsen Architects totals 160 employees representing 18 different countries. The work is often carried out in cooperation with highly skilled international consultants sharing the common effort to bring forth the unique potential and best possible quality in all parts of the design.
Henning Larsen Architects Vesterbrogade 76 DK-1620 Copenhagen V Denmark Tel: +45 8233 3000 Fax: +45 8233 3099 E-mail: info@henninglarsen.com Website: www.henninglarsen.com
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Photos Adam Mørk (Cover, 50-51, 52-53, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 62-63), Rob Casey/Polfoto (2-3), Bill Coster/Polfoto (6-7), Bernd Römmelt/Polfoto (8-9), Kin Cheung/Polfoto (10-11), Dennis Marsico/Polfoto (12-13), Vidler/Polfoto (14-15), Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images (16-17), Lars Hansen/Polfoto (18-19), Carsten Snejbjerg (21, 68-69), Fridrik Orn/Extrix (24-25), Haukur Snorrasson/Polfoto(26-27), Olafur Eliasson (32), Scönherr Landskab (64-65), Agnete Schlichtkrull (66-67, 72-73), Svein Hertel-Aas (70-71)
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Henning Larsen Architects Vesterbrogade 76 DK–1620 Copenhagen V Denmark Tel: +45 8233 3000 Fax: +45 8233 3099 E-mail: info@henninglarsen.com Website: www.henninglarsen.com