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SLADNA “What makes me get up in the morning is that we are going to bring meaning and new insights into the world.” — Stig L. Andersson
tion with our clients and users also have a utility value and an amenity value. COMPLIMENTARITY AS FUNDAMENTAL APPROACH
SLA is driven by a genuine desire to understand and change the world. This is the ambition which can be seen and felt in everything we do — yes, it is even personified in our founder, Stig L. Andersson, and his steadfast insistence to find the meaning of life, art and science. It is therefore also quite natural that we are constantly seeking for new insights and for new ways of doing things at SLA. And this strengthens not only us but also our colleagues and collaborators.
What distinguishes us from our colleagues is our fundamental approach that nature’s grown environment and the constructed and built environment differ from one another. Although they are not comparable they are complementary. Only together they constitute a holistic architecture. Thus, we always ask ourselves how nature would have done it. And the answer is almost always found in an entirely different place than any of us had anticipated. This makes thinking across disciplines central to our processes.
NATURE AS A LAUNCH PAD
CHANGE THE WORLD TOGETHER
Nature is the focal point of everything we develop, draw and think at SLA. Because the order of nature is the starting point of how we organize our world and for how we create the framework in which life can unfold fully. We also prefer working with that which grows. Because it is the living that constitutes our very foundation. That which is constantly changing. Architecture, master planning, urban spaces and landscapes are just some of the means that we use to put nature’s processes into play. But having said that, it is also important for us that what we create in collabora-
At SLA we emphasize the personal qualities of ethics and integrity very highly. And we know that we can be demanding to work with. Because it is not easy to make changes that are sustainable, robust and aesthetically meaningful. We therefore aim to challenge our surroundings at least as much as we challenge ourselves. But whatever the challenge, we take on the responsibility to get it resolved, so that it gives the most value back to the client, the users and the city - and to the wider systems of nature. It is all in our DNA.
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ABOUT SLA SLA is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning design company that works with landscape architecture and urban development. Based in Copenhagen and Oslo, SLA forms a multidisciplinary architectural lab with strong Nordic roots. The company works in a wide range of scales - from small-scale lighting, planting and material design to large-scale master planning and urban design – and has solved tasks in Denmark, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. SLA creates modern, sustainable and adaptable cities that inspire community and diversity through innovative use of nature, design, sustainability and technology. The office strives constantly to challenge and expand the boundaries of urban planning, natural design and the grown environment. The projects solve some of today's toughest urban problems while creating genuine amenity for all. SLA is one of Europe’s leading specialists regarding sustainability through landscape architecture: From natural climate adaption and environmental control to biodiversity enhancement and micro climate optimization in public spaces. SLA strives to create synergy between maintenance and social, economic and ecological sustainability. 5
SELECTED WORKS SLA / APRIL 2015 SLA COPENHAGEN NJALSGADE 17B PAKHUS 2, 3. SAL DK - 2300 COPENHAGEN S E: LANDSKAB@SLA.DK T: +45 3391 1316 SLA OSLO SØRKEDALSVEIEN 6 PB 7057 MAJORSTUEN N-0306 OSLO E: LFH@SLA.DK T: +45 3176 5841 WWW.SLA.DK
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INDEX CLOUD / NYKREDIT 10 THE CITY DUNE / SEB BANK 22 NOVO NORDISK BA CAMPUS 38 MÆRSK BUILDING 56 EUROPEAN SPALLATION SOURCE 66 THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT 74 MASSAR ROSE PARK 82 EMBASSY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 90 OSLO CENTRAL HARBOUR 98 VINGE - THE DELTA DISTRICT 110 KU.BE - CULTURE AND EVENT VENUE 118 MUD GARDEN 128 GREEN FOOTPRINTS 136 SLA PRODUCT DESIGN 152 HIGH LIGHT 156 AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS (selected) 158
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| WHITE | White belongs to nature. It is the magical Nordic haze, the mist, the fog, the shifting clouds. White is matter. A matter of state. White is weather. Step up, step inside the white. You are now inside the cloud.
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CLOUD / NYKREDIT Service: Design and Lighting Concept Location: Copenhagen, DK Client: Nykredit Design Phase: 2005-2007 Realization: 2009-2010 Area: 5 500 m2 Building Architect: schmidt hammer lassen Engineer: Grontmij, Hansen & Henneberg
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On the boundary between the new harbour front and the old town of Copenhagen, Nykredit has erected their new headquater, ’Crystal’, and a new public space, ’CLOUD’. SLA has designed the urban space as a continuation of the axial composition of the area and the surrounding buildings. In Copenhagen the sun only shines a third of the year. Thus CLOUD is a public space that changes with the weather. This gives the residents of Copenhagen the opportunity to experience the complete range of the Danish weather, with light, wind, and clouds as events that challenge the senses and wonder. Trickling walls of vertical water jets divide the plaza into changing spaces and create different areas for rest and movement. When the walls of water on the square are turned on and off in an interaction with the wind, changing aquatic images are created. The changing cloud cover of the sky is reflected in a pool with fleeting glimpses of passers-by and the surrounding crystal-like architecture. CLOUD is thus the only place in Copenhagen where the water’s triplepoint can be experienced. The water’s triple-point occurs when there is equilibrium between the three phases of water: the solid phase, the liquid phase and the vapor phase; as crystal, water and clouds. At night the reflecting pool is lit by weak diode lights, transforming the space with a gently quivering light that changes from turquoise to green. The warm stripes of light from the street lamps create a distinctive and safe urban space. 11
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THE CITY DUNE / SEB BANK Service: Design and Lighting Concept Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Client: SEB Bank & Pension Design Phase: 2005-2007 Realization: 2007 - 2010 Area: 7 300 m2 Building Architect: Lundgaard og Tranberg Engineer: Rambøll
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The City Dune is made of white insitu casted concrete, borrowing its large, folding movements from the sand dunes of Northern Denmark and the snow dunes of the Scandinavian winter. The urban space gradually climbs from street level to the second floor, thereby creating a connection between the city square and the two office buildings with their different levels. The folding movements of the landscape were created not purely to meet the functional and technical requirements of rainwater management, access, lighting and planting. They also offer a variety of paths and routes through the landscape, thereby creating an ever changing urban space. Acclimatization is the single most important principle in the design of The City Dune. Through the folding of the white concrete, the surface reflects as much of the incoming sun radiation as possible, creating a cooler microclimate during the warm summer months. This cooling effect is further enhanced by the trees and the plants that includes grasses, ferns and moss; and by the 110 water atomizers emitting a fine mist to be spread by the wind. The water for the atomisers is rainwater that has been collected in two underground tanks via a fine network of drains. 23
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| ROOTS | Nowhere are the power and the feeling of nature stronger than in tree roots: The crooked branches, the amorphous sequences, the non-geometrical, the non-hierarchical. Tree roots are all that architecture is striving for – but cannot reach. They are the order of nature.
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NOVO NORDISK BA CAMPUS Service: Design and Lighting Concept Location: BagsvĂŚrd, Denmark Client: Novo Nordisk Design Phase: 2010-2012 Realization: 2013 Area: 31 000 m2 Building Architect: HLA Engineer: Alectia
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Coherence and synergy for a complex researchand knowledge-based corporation. This is the core of SLA’s landscape design for Novo Nordisk’s new corporate center. SLA has, together with Henning Larsen Architects and Alectia, designed the new corporate center for Novo Nordisk. The corporate center, which will house the company’s top management and 1.100 administrative staff, is located in a large, green park, designed by SLA. Novo Nordisk’s new park will not only provide a recreational setting for two new buildings, but will itself provide Novo Nordisk with additional opportunities for dynamic knowledge sharing and synergy through soothing and stress relieving nature. Not only does the landscape design improve concentration for employees and guests, but it also provides an opportunity to incorporate well-being into a vibrant work environment. SLA has thus created a prominent landscape that with its inclusive and stimulating complexity serves as the total brand for Novo Nordisk.
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A wide palette of native plants which over time will grow into ’forests’ and habitats, will offer an informal green frame for both the indoor and outdoor lives of the employees. Here, the boundaries between work and leisure are erased: The flowing idiom of the landscape encourages meetings between employees, which in turn encourages an active work environment with great opportunities for knowledge dissemination. 41
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MÆRSK BUILDING Service: Landscape design Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Client: University of Copenhagen Design Phase: 2010-2012 Realization: 2012-2014 Area: 37 000 m2 Building Architect: C.F. Møller Engineer: Rambøll, Aggebon & Henriksen
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The landscape and the new nature around the Mærsk Building will be a dynamic and sensory urban space in the heart of Copenhagen where both students and researchers from Panum and residents from the local area can share the neighbourhood’s new and lush outdoor space. The landscape offers a diversity of experiences that not only facilitate social interactions, but also the spontaneous sharing of knowledge between Panum’s many users. The urban spaces vary in size and shape, and the generous landscape opens up for many different situations where there is room and attractions for everyone. A significant element in the landscape will be a new pedestrian and bicycle bridge that connects Blegdamsvej with Nørre Allé. The route goes from street level, up across the roof of the building and down to street level again. The path will be a truly unique experience for Panum’s users and visitors, when the 300 m long route enters the treetops and provides great views across the roof tops of Nørrebro.
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Campus Park In general there is local perlocation in the park, secondarily the water is channelled to a rain water tank via drains Trees with good evaporation abilities
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EUROPEAN SPALLATION SOURCE Service: Landscape design Location: Lund, Sweden Client: European Spallation Source (ESS AB) Design Phase: 2012 Realization: 2015-19 Area: 760 000 m2 Building Architect: Henning Larsen Architects, COBE & NNE Pharmaplan Engineer: Transsolar
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How do you create a maximum security outdoor space for the world’s largest neutron research institution without compromising quality, livability and openness? The European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund is Europe’s new multidisciplinary state-of-the-art research center within the atomic nucleus research. To address the challenges of security and effectivity in a modern research environment without compromising the quality of the recreational areas, SLA designed a varied landscape design using vegetation, wetlands and terrain to ensure the area - rather than using fencing, barbed wire and walls. When it comes to combining safety and landscape qualities the ESS’s landscape creates an optimal environment for one of Europe’s most important research institutions, while at the same time providing the public with a unique insight into the fascinating world of science.
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| SAND | Sand is nothing more and nothing less but eroded quartz made into tiny crystals rounded by the wind. And yet we know of nothing more evocative, nothing more poetic than the sound of crunching sand underneath our feet. Like snowflakes.
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THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Service: Landscape design and masterplan Location: The Hague, The Netherlands Client: The International Criminal Court Design Phase: 2010-11 Realization: 2013-16 Area: 46 000 m2 Building Architect: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Engineer: Royal Haskoning
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SLA creates the landscape for The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. By combining a sustainable landscape with an efficient infrastructure of transit and transportation, SLA has created a modern corporate landscape with attractive urban spaces for one of the world’s most important international institutions. At the ICC, SLA has dealt with such diverse concerns as terrorism prevention, identity making, climate adaption, stormwater management and the construction of a giant vertical roof garden, which in addition to creating a distinct brand for the ICC also handles issues such as cooling, water collection and ventilation of the buildings. Due to its high-profile nature as an international institution of justice, the ICC needs extensive security measures. But instead of barricading itself behind high walls and barbed wire, the ICC opens up to the public through a sophisticated but gentle processing of the landscape. This maintains the ICC’s ideals of openness and trust, with the landscape becoming the court’s public face as an inclusive, open and meaningful institution landscape for all. The International Criminal Court in The Hague will thus be a model for new democratic architecture: A place where power meets citizens with transparency rather than entrenching itself behind high walls.
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MASSAR ROSE PARK Service: Design of cultural and educational public park Location: Damascus, Syria Client: Syria Trust for Development Design Phase: 2010-11 Area: 170 000 m2 Building Architect: Henning Larsen Architects
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The Massar Rose Park unites a variety of the typical landscape elements of the Damascene oasis: The steep slope that skirts the Barada River, the former Ghuta with its orchards and the Barada River itself. Massar Rose Park is designed as a cultural and educational park that has a strong appeal to the inhabitants of Damascus and especially with Syrian youngsters. Using green and traditional arabic scenery intervowen with contextual infrastructure, the Massar Rose Park will link the most significant cultural sites of Damascus together. The Massar Rose Park will become the center for a national educational and cultural programme for children and adolescents. The project is presently on hold due to the unrest in Syria.
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EMBASSY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION Service: Landscape design Location: Abuja, Nigeria Client: The European Union Design Phase: 1995-2002 Realization: 2004 Area: 19 000 m2
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SLA created the landscape for the joint embassy of the European Union in Abuja, Nigeria as a combination of communal spaces and individual court yards. In an international competition in 2005 SLA won the first prize for the landscape design of the European Union’s joint embassy in Nigeria’s capital Abuja. The landscape design consists partly of several large communal spaces, partly of individual courtyards belonging to the Embassies of the various countries. Each garden is inspired by the particular identity of each European member country, its nature and culture thus creating a varied yet specific identity for the joint embassy. In Abuja the year is divided into a rainy and a dry season. Therefore local materials and plants are used in consideration of the climatic conditions.
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| SOUND | When we first begin to notice the sounds surrounding us, we will notice a sensuous aspect much stronger than our vision. After all, it is only a very small part of what we see that we actually realize seeing. We will choose the ear over the eye any day.
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Design: SLA Location: Oslo, Norway Client: Bjørvika Infrastruktur A/S Design Phase: 2005 Realization: 2010 Area: 18 ha Collaborators: Gehl Architects Engineer: Norconsult, Aas - Jakobsen, Rambøll
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What came first, buildings or urban spaces? In the central harbour areas of Oslo both the construction process and the seven urban spaces have been turned upside down. Planning starts with the spaces, only later are the buildings added. The urban space and city life are the starting point for a development for the benefit of the citizens. The development plan for the quayside in Oslo and seven central urban spaces connect the centre of town to the fjord, the mouth of the river, Akerselva, the Central Station and the new Opera House. The plan unites city and water in three sensory elements: contouring, edges and water. Angles and slopes create variation, the edges of buildings and differences in level create seating and paths, whilst rushing, trickling and atomized water accentuates the proximity to the fjord. Each space has its own identity formed by a unique combination of water, edges and contouring. The seven spaces are tied together by a unifying floor of black basalt. On the one hand a unified picture is created, a basic space with its starting point in the landscape, the city and life. On the other hand the unity is anchored in site-specific terms, in activities, in the different public areas and in the promenade. Together an operational fabric of unity and variation is created, which simply makes it possible for the urban spaces to be developed over time and become springboards for city development. 99
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STATUS 2015 Christian Fr. plaza: Design phase start
Akerselva north: Under construction
Operaallmenningen: Permit applied Stationsallmenningen north: Completed Stationsallmenningen south: Design development Langkaja: Completed.
Akerselva syd: Design development Bispekilen: Development plan Munch Museum Plaza: Permit applied
Kongsbakken: Design development
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VINGE - THE DELTA DISTRICT Service: Landscape and development strategy Location: Vinge, Frederikssund, Denmark Client: The Municipality of Frederikssund Design Phase: 2013-18 Realization: 2018-25 Area: 136 000 m2 Engineer: Rambøll
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The Delta District is a former agricultural site and now is to become the very first green residential development area of the new city Vinge in Denmark. The project illustrates how landscaping can create both amenity and utility and provides a starting point for new city that is situated in the landscape, surrounded by nature and conditioned by the variety of this nature. The district showcases and utilizes unique and innovative methods to embrace nature’s ability to meet contemporary and future climate challenges as well as promoting well-being, diversity and social meetings. Landscaping in this case unites nature and urbanity in an optimal complementary relationship that utilizes nature as a facilitator of urbanity rather than taming it for merely decorative purposes. Man-made trenches and bassins spreading through the landscape create a fine meshed web, which prevent flooding by leading rainwater to a man-made delta for storage. Simultaneously both bassins, trenches and delta accentuate the water and provide the urban space with a unique nature for citizens to gather around, interact with and simply enjoy.
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KU.BE - CULTURE AND EVENT VENUE Service: Design and Lighting Concept Location: Frederiksberg, Denmark Client: Frederiksberg Kommune Design Phase: 2009-2010 Realization: 2011Area: 8 000 m2 Building Architects: MVRDV, Adept Engineer: Søren Jensen
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The ambition of the House of Culture and Movement (KU.BE) is to create a dynamic venue with a wide range of activities for people of all ages. Health, culture, leisure and education are mixed together to create new spectacular experiences. House and nature are interlinked in a dynamic program of public spaces, connected both to the surroundings and the existing recreational routes and facilities. The building transcends its own barriers - and is an essential part of a spectacular urban park which brings life and excitement to the neighborhood. The new Spark Space will serve as a new activity center. It will add new activities to existing activities in the area. It will also function as a unifying body for all these activities so colla足 borations and joint events can take place. Besides the obvious connection to Flintholm Metro station and the existing road network it is possible to extend paths throughout the area and establish new connections and interventions. The landscape is characterised by an unhierarchical space with varying atmospheres, plantings and constructions. A system of micro足 climates, changing sounds, lights and scents gives the visitor an intense sensory experience. You are outside, inside, under the trees, on grass hills or paved surfaces. The many surfaces and spaces activate a variety of movement forms.
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The new slanting terrain is developed to create special places and experiences. It is not limited to narrowly defined activities but represents a number of zones adjacent to each other. Each zone encourages certain types of activities: The outdoor space at SPARK is an unhierarchical space with access from the four corners of the world. Each entrance offers a different experience of the surpriseladen park.
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| EARTH | The Earth changes states. Molecules form out of atoms. Lava erupts. Mountains are formed and erode. And turn back into soil, mud, clay. Back into earth. The Earth’s own requiem.
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MUD GARDEN Service: Design and Masterplan of Public Exhibition Garden Location: Xian, China Client: The Xian International Horticultural Exhibition Design Phase: 2010 Realization: 2011 Area: 1 000 m2
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As one of ten specially invited internationally renowned landscape architects SLA participated with a public exhibition garden at the 2011 Xian International Horticultural Exhibition. Drawing inspiration from the Yellow River and its rich clay that 3,000 year ago formed the Chinese civilization through the use of pottery, building material and art, SLA created The Yellow Mud Garden – an homage and reminder to the Chinese civilization of its heritage form the Yellow River. Using large figures of clay, mud of all colors, a recreation of the original plantation of the area and a cross-cultural and socially inclusive landscape design, SLA created a distinct public park that could not be placed anywhere else in the world but in Xian – near the Yellow River.
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GREEN FOOTPRINTS Service: Design and research Location: Bornholm, Denmark Client: Green Solution House Design Phase: 2012 Realization: 2013 Area: 67 000 m2 Building Architect: 3XN/GXN, Steenbergs Tegnestue Engineer: Rambøll
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A diverse and living landscape with a green foot足 print, developed based on the Cradle 2 Cradle prin足 ciples. The landscape for Green Solution House conference center and hotel is based on the latest trends in sustainable development and designed according to the principles of Cradle 2 Cradle. This includes 100 % water and soil balance, urban farming, composting, reuse of demolished building materials for new paths etc. Furthermore the project includes a building inte足 grated living sunlight protection consisting of an indoor planting system with espaliers and green walls with local wild plant species that also cleans up the indoor air and purifies the utility water of the buildings. In the same way the landscape around is designed with focus on biodiversity, ecological wastewater cleaning and extra absorption of rain water.
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Existing risk of flooding in event of heavy rain
Optimized Topography
Optimized risk of flooding in event of heavy rain
RISK OF FLOODING: There is an extra high watertable in the area. This increases the risk of flooding, because rainwater can’t be drained fast enought in the event of heavy rain. Green Footprints takes this negative and turns it into a positive. 140
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WOOD CUTTING CIRCUIT: Ă˜sterlars Sawmill delivers wood to Green Footprints. Hans Henrik from the sawmill only cuts the oldest trees and leaves branches, stumps and tree crowns on the forest floor. Nature takes its course, stumps are overgrowned by moss and grass and a new tree emerges. This contributes to biodiversity even though it in fact involves removing a tree. 142
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MATERIAL CIRCUIT - GLASS: Bornholm is very famous for its traditional glasswork and the island has many active glassworks and galleries. In Green Footprints the residual products from the glassworks participate in a new circuit and are reused in a new and untraditional way as a locally embedded material which becomes a visible and characteristic element of the landscape. 80 90 144
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NO GRANITE IS WASTED When granite is cut into blocks and stone there is always a residual product - from cliff-like clots and large rocks to sharp chippings and stone meal. Green Footprints will use all the local granite – in all shapes and sizes. It will be used on the parking lot, where chippings and stone meal form the top layers. 147
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| BARK | Bark is at once living and dead, growing and fractured, protective layer and integral part of the tree. Once you become aware of the sensuous qualities of bark, everything else quickly fades. You could say it is a matter of not being able to see the forest for the bark.
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SLA works in a wide range of scales - from strategic master plans to specific product designs in 1: 1. SLA is behind the design of several products for lighting, planting and drainage, as well as innovative and experimental development of new materials, such as pavement materials made from recycled glass and wood. Several of SLA’s products are designed in connection with concrete landscape or urban projects. The products are designed in a simple and functional design with a high aesthetic value. They are often based on the site-specific, but can be used in many different contexts. For example, the Jugend linear drainage is designed for a project in Sønderborg City Center and the drainage’s pattern is based on the ornamentation that characterizes the old door frames in the city. Thereby the drainage refers to the history of the place, but in an interpretation as an abstract pattern, which can not immediately be repeated, and that can easily be used in other contexts, because the drainage is compatible with existing drainage systems. SLA’s products reflect the company’s unique understanding of nature’s processes. The Campus Tree Grid, which consists of four sections that gather around the tree, is created on nature’s terms. As the tree grows, one can remove the inner rings. The product thus creates synergy between the grown and the built environment. 153
Turtle Light
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The Light Stripe
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Campus linear drainage
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HighLight
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Columbine Light
Columbine Light
Nykredit bollard
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HIGH LIGHT 100% SUSTAINABLE mark forbrænder årligt ca. LIGHT POLE ALUMINIUM
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AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS (selected) 2015/ The Society for the Beautification of the Capital Award’ (Hovedstadens Forskønnelsespris)
2010/ The Danish Light Award (Lysprisen) for the project North West Park
2014/ Shortlisted for European Garden Awards
2009/ Road Prize 2009 (Vejprisen 2009) for the project Sønder Boulevard
2014/ Appointed Curator of The Danish Pavilion at The 14th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014
2008/ Pen Magazine’s Creative Award 2008-2009 for Best Animal Design
2014/ The C.F. Hansen Medal awarded by Akademiraadet
2008/ Frederiksberg Municipality’s Architecture Award
2013/ Shortlisted for World Smart City Award
2006/ Shortlisted for European Prize for Urban Public Spaces
2012/ Shortlisted for European Prize for Urban Public Spaces 2011/ ’Good and Beautiful Building Award’ by the Copenhagen Mayor of Culture 2011/ ‘The Society for the Beautification of the Capital Award’ 2011/ Shortlisted for Politiken’s ‘Copenhagener of The Year’
2005/ Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2005/ Nominated for Forum Prize 2003/ Award of Honour, the Margot and Thorvald Dreyer Foundation. (Margot og Thorvald Dreyers Fonds Hæderspris) 2003/ Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2002/ The European Landscape Award, Topos
2011/ Shortlisted for ‘Arne of the Year Architectu re Award’ (Årets Arne) 2010/ Nykredit’s Architecture Prize (Nykredits Arkitekturpris)
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2002/ The Eckersberg Medal granted by Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Eckersberg Medaillen).