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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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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.
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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.
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Re-booting a shrinking city: The strip as node: Reinforcing the connection of the port of Vardo with the alreadyexisting naval highways and attempting a unification of its 2 sides (inner and outer - high and low-traffic naval streets of Vardo, respectively),
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A controlled environment is in fact the starting point for the introduction of new programs in Vardo’s revisited (public) domesticity that offers exotism in a shell.
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Island-in-a-port: A landfill attempting to create another public surface that can bring together the two dividing sectors of urban Vardo and offer sufficient ground for the organisation of activities (festivals, market days and concerts) at the new heart of the city
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An adjustable system of infrastructure that allows for control of the environmental qualities of indoor space (temperature, light, sound, air). The isolated building as shelter to extreme weather conditions and provider of an interior domestic life hosts a set of controllers of the micro-climate conditions.
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Wet public spaces: The concept of the openair pool reattributes the innermost southern part of the port as a new kind of wet public space.
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Time becomes an equivalent player in the city design game.As long as a multitude of city rhythms is fundamentally involved in structuring Vardo’s life, the calendar becomes a supplementary design tool, of both analytical and constructive significance, in an attempt to rationalise flows in a time-framework.
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