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Catering for both the requirements of an
Very much is at stake when considering
citizens themselves, the proposed strategic kit
the current situation of Vardo as well as
adopts this kind of a peculiar dual viewpoint
the uncertainty of its unfolding over time -
in every single one of its programmatic design
especially when regarding the future of the fish
elements. In 1982, Norway decides to construct
industry, the challenge of tourism, and even the
its first ever underwater tunnel that connects
investment in Zumthor’s work. This nebulous
Vardo with the mainland.Metropolitanism
current situation doesn’t leave safe ground for
reaches out for the island. A similarly confident
one-way solutions. By contrast, it calls for the
investment in the direction of implementing
adoption of a multitude of equally uncertain
infrastructure that recontextualises the bold
strategies that have the potential to produce the
vision of the past by incorporating it into a
required urban results - each one autonomously
larger infrastructure, seems necessary again
or in the (partly unpredictable) dynamic
today. Inspired by the raw connectivity between
combination of them all.
mainland, sea and island we fantasize a manifold
attraction of the short-term passing-by multitudes, as well as those of the long-term
of infrastructure struggling to twine the secluded We have devised a kit of urban strategies that can
island along with its geopolitical context and
be partially, gradually or simultaneously adopted
wire it with an intricate network of exchanges
by the city. Our approach also involves time and
and transfers: Materials, heat, multitudes, flows
a multitude of city rhythms as an equivalent
and public space. Since you could pierce the
player in the design game.
land underseas to open up a highway back then anything is possible now.
FLOWS AND INFRASTRUCTURE OF A METROPOLITAN INTENSITY
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Re-booting a shrinking city: The strip as node: Reinforcing the connection of the port of Vardo with the already-existing naval highways and attempting a unification of its 2 sides (inner and outer - high and low-traffic naval streets of Vardo, respectively). A controlled environment is in fact the starting point for Vardo airport
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the two dividing sectors of urban Vardo and offer (festivals, market days and concerts) at the new heart of the city Wet public spaces: The concept of the openair pool reattributes the innermost southern part
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Time becomes an equivalent player in the city design game.As long as a multitude of city rhythms
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is fundamentally involved in structuring Vardo’s life, the calendar becomes a supplementary design tool, of both analytical and constructive signififramework.
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