Plazarism & the Monumental of PublicEuropan 13 {Adaptable City} /// TRONDHEIM, NORWAY {01}

Urban AxisDORA I ARTICULATION

Plaza OpeningsPERMEABLE SYSTEM

Mid-Scale FiguresPAST & NEW ATTRAC-

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Contextual ForcesPUBLIC CALIBRATION

Two-Face QualitySOFT INT. VS HARD EXT.

EventsROUTINE CORRUPTION

PLAZARISM & THE MONUMENTAL OF PUBLIC

Manifesto in 3 points: 1 LIVE EXCESSIVELY In an era where social relationships are becoming more and more abstract and digitally based, it is crucial to recover the importance of analog spaces, as a strategy for placemaking and for unwrapping identities. Our proposal intends to conduct the celebration of social relationships in a hyper-realistic way while allowing for spontaneous behaviors. The introduction of a CIVIC PLACE where activities intertwine “24/7”, offers Trondheim an opportunity to structure and weave Stransveikaia with the different complexities that surround it. 2. THIS IS A VOLUMETRIC GROUND The rotund shape of an open space together with its unpredictable generation of scenarios becomes the basis of a PLAZA, an Agora in the most archaic sense. The expansion area of Trondheim needs a new core, as downtown has Torvet Square. This public space operates as a common ground between the old and new areas of the city. The permeability and ductility of this ground, allows for the extension of the “Street Life” into the constructions, infiltrating tri-dimensionally its activeness. 3. SHIFT THE FOCUS An urban intervention must be understood at different scales. Citywise, the FIGURE of a U gets plugged into Dora I, embracing it and therefore enhancing its presence in the public scene. As part of a neighborhood, remains of the past or FRAGMENTS that need to be preserved get integrated within the volume, working as important cultural cells. At a human scale, several EVENTS will randomly populate the place.

Urban Plan

Cultural NetworkCIVIC ACTIVATION

Public PlazasTWO POLES

ConnectivityBIKE, PEDESTRIAN &

VEHICLE

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grass platform w/ outdoor seating

men’s toilet

outdoor bar

rooftop farm

women’s toilet

mkt{01}CAFE/KIOSK

foldable canopy w/solar cell stickers

metal structure

counter

* possible combinations: picnic tables

mkt{02}MARKET STAND

foldable canopy w/solar cell stickers

metal structure

counter

wheels

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mkt{03}INDIVIDUAL MARKET STAND

metal structuretable

wheels

bench

movable

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mkt{04}PICNIC TABLE

piezoelectric platform

metal structure

stagedressrooms & storage

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seatingsteps

outdoor bar

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cult{02}STALL

possible combinations: movable stage*

wheels

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metal structure foldable canopy w/solar cell stickers

cult{03}EVENT CANOPY

possible combinations: movable stage*

wheels

steps

seating

movable

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cult{04}MOVABLE STALL

movable

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stepslight bulbs

possible combinations: movable stall*

wheels

loudspeakers

event platform

cult{05}MOVABLE STAGE

movable

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wheels

metal structure

display boards

cult{06}EXHIBITION STAND

metal structure

canopy

bike racks

lesr{01}BIKE PARKING

kajak dock

rental boothconnecting ramp

metal structure

lesr{02}KAJAK DOCK

waiting room

dock

ticket booth

connecting ramp

lesr{03}BOAT TERMINAL

storage room

connecting rampmetal structure

fishing pier

lesr{04}FISHING PIER

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EVENTUALITY & THE FORM OF CULTURE WITHOUT CONTENT

Drawing upon the already existing cultural resources, the new center integrates the existing actors within a new body, improving their organizational capacities and providing a new framework in which the pre-existing and new activities can be assimilated. As opposed to a pre-crisis approach towards culture, where over-scaled cultural centers were created, our intent is to create content without a container. Thus culture can be used as an anchor to attract developers and residents to the area, where new means of cultural and economic exchange can be developed, based on different lease-control mechanisms together with cultural-based trades. The EVENTS will act as the hardware for this exchange, allowing the different activities to colonize exterior and interior spaces, becoming an open field where different agents interact (residents, visitors or performers).

This “Contingent Archipelago” gets overlapped on the two axis that organize the scheme, acting the N-S orientation as a city linkage through a bike lane (extension of the Ladestien path) and the E-W as a neighborhood connection.

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The massing that wraps the Plaza responds in 2 opposite ways to the context. On the one hand the exterior keeps the monumentality of Nyhavna, establishing a dialogue with Dora I and Dora II, dominant constructions of the site. At the same time it provides an enclosed and protected area, permitting the co-existence between community and industrial activities. On the other hand the interior skin is a soft surface, getting distorted by the Plaza activity and the preserved fragments. The building gets developed from outside-in to inside-out. The public area invades the interior, shaping it, and creating cultural (transversal) porosities. At the same time, it sectorizes the volume creating several programmatic clusters that promote a ‘discontinuous continuity’ all along, in which multiple resident identities can be included. This configuration discovers some voids or undefined spaces that can be used by the users spontaneously, as interior EVENTS.

Ground Floor {+2.5 m}

Second Floor {+9.5 m}

Third Floor {+12.5 m}

Fourth Floor {+15.5 m}

Fifth Floor {+18.5 m}

Sixth Floor {+21.5 m}

Roof Level {+24.5 m}

Ground Floor {+2.5 m}

Second Floor {+9.5 m}

Third Floor {+12.5 m}

Fourth Floor {+15.5 m}

Fifth Floor {+18.5 m}

Sixth Floor {+21.5 m}

Roof Level {+24.5 m}

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Longitudinal Section YSOUTH WING

Transversal Section ZSOUTH WING

Typical PlanSOUTH WING

Public CarvingSOUTH WING

Interior Skin / Soft + Permeable

Interstitial Element between Plaza & Building

Cultural Voids

As an extension of the Public Space

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6/ Workshop

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8/ Student Housing

9/ Storage Cells {Insulation Level}

1/ Lobby Educational Centre

2/ Reception Area Education Centre

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9/ Common Dining Area

10/ TV Room

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1/ Events Space

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