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By contrast, it calls for the adoption of a multitude of equally uncertain strategies that have the potential to produce the required urban results each one autonomously or in the (partly unpredictable) dynamic combination of them all.
“Proden” building
Very much is at stake when considering the current situation of Vardo as well as the uncertainty of its unfolding over time - especially when regarding the future of the fish industry, the challenge of tourism, and even the investment in Zumthor’s work. This nebulous current situation doesn’t leave safe ground for one-way solutions.
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We have devised a kit of urban strategies that can be partially, gradually or simultaneously adopted by the city.
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Aquarium-Pools
Millenium Path
Our approach also involves time and a multitude of city rhythms as an equivalent player in the design game.
“Brodtkorp Sjaene”
Catering for both the requirements of an attraction of the short-term passing-by multitudes, as well as those of the long-term citizens themselves, the proposed strategic kit adopts this kind of a peculiar dual viewpoint in every single one of its programmatic design elements.
Church Town Hall Square
Memorial to the burning of Witches
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Kirkenes port In 1982, Norway decides to construct its first ever underwater tunnel that connects Vardo with the mainland.Metropolitanism reaches out for the island. A similarly confident investment in the direction of implementing infrastructure that recontextualises the bold vision of the past by incorporating it into a larger infrastructure, seems necessary again today. Inspired by the raw connectivity between mainland, sea and island we fantasize a manifold of infrastructure struggling to twine the secluded island along with its geopolitical context and wire it with an intricate network of exchanges and transfers: Materials, heat, multitudes, flows and public space.
Since you could pierce the land underseas to open up a highway back then - anything is possible now.