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WORLD
VILLAGE OF WOMEN SPORTS . BIG
TYPE
INVITED COMPETITION
CLIENT H-HAGEN FASTIGHETS AB
COLLABORATORS AKT, TYRÉNS, TRANSSOLAR
SIZE 100.000 M2
LOCATION MALMØ, SWEDEN
STATUS 1.PRIZE
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Sport
– The
WVOWS will be a multifunctional neighborhood comprising a whole range
of physical activities, sports, fitness and wellness. From the main
football field at its heart, to the gyms and auditoria, from the handball
halls of the university to the laboratories of the health house and
research institutes, it is an entire neighborhood committed to sport.
Women – The WVOWS is dedicated to
the special requirements of women of all cultures and all ages. Special
attention to the dressing facilities as well as the possibility to work
out or exercise without feeling embarrassed by the presence (and gazes)
of men is a significant attraction for several groups of women. Special
attention to the social spaces, the urban plazas, streets and gardens
provide the neighborhood with a feeling of intimacy and well-being often
lacking in the more masculine industrial-style sports complexes that
are more like factories for physical exercise, than temples for body
and mind.
Village – like a village rather than
a sports complex the WVOWS combines individual buildings with a variety
of functions and spaces, pavements and gardens. The sloping roofscapes
and alternating building volumes provides the neighborhood with the
identity as well as variety of a village. The streets animated by publicly
oriented functions for education, news, culture and commerce resemble
the functional diversity of a medieval downtown.
World - the WVOWS is a Babylonian complex
of hanging gardens comprising flora in the full spectrum of colors from
all parts of the world. At the center the elevated common is surrounded
by 360 degrees of flowers, bushes, vines and trees from the elevated
courtyards to cantilevering balconies to the sloping terraces.
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Kronprinsen
– Kronprinsessan
The utopian community of Kronprinsen combining building and landscape,
open space and density, living, working and playing is reinvented
in its feminine twin: Kronprinsessan, half a century later.
Rather than a single structure it will be a community of independent
buildings.
Rather than a public interior it will be a neighborhood of pedestrian
streets, plazas and passages, in immediate connection with Kronprinsens
shopping galleries and the adjacent park.
The orthogonal lines of Kronprinsen evolve into the diagonal slopes
of Kronprinsessan.
The secluded park of Kronprinsen is transformed in to the hanging
gardens of Kronprinsessan.
The traditional flats of Kronprinsen are developed into a variety
of typologies of studios and hotel rooms, duplexes and terrace houses.
Network
The WVOWS will be a network of public passages and private gardens
completely woven in to the structure of the surrounding city. Like
an extension rather than a blockage the new programs and streets complete
the flow of people across the site. The dormant shopping complex of
Kronprinsen will be fed with life from the new residents and visitors
as well as from all the new streets that channel the flow of people
directly to its doors.
Intimate and generous
The central hall is large enough to accommodate professional football
matches as well as concerts, conferences, exhibitions and flea markets.
Rather than being a self centered interior hall, shut off from the
surrounding city – it appears like an open and welcoming public
space, visible from all of the surrounding streets – generously
offering its interior life to the passers-by.
Interior common
Like an interior common the sports hall’s interior reveals itself
like a clearing in the city, a public space at the heart of a dense
urban block
Shopping streets and pedestrian passages
As all cars are accommodated below ground, the entire neighborhood
is conceived as a pedestrian quarter of intimate streets connected
to the gardens above via stairs and elevators. The pedestrian streets
are accompanied by shops on one side and the central sports hall on
the other – always combining culture and leisure.
The pedestrian network of streets plugs into the surrounding street
networks as well as the interior galleries of Kronprinsen, turning
it into a complete ecosystem of urban life.
Public and private
The WVOWS is based on the confirmed observation that a living city
requires a complementary mix of public amenities and private initiatives.
A large resident population will fill the streets and gardens in the
morning and evening, while students and employees as well as female
(and male) athletes of all ages will populate the facilities at all
times along with shoppers and passersby.
Building and Landscape
The alpine silhouettes of the sloping slabs constitute a refreshing
alternative to the orthogonal geometries of Kronsprinsens modernistic
slabs, creating a sense of urban landscape. The varied vegetation
on the elevated gardens, balconies, terraces and sloping roofs further
intensify the hybrid feeling of landscape and architecture.
Living, working and playing
The WVOWS will be able to support all aspects of human life. Generous
living, focus work and intensive play.
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Culture
and commerce
Combining philanthropy and profitability, sport and shop, park and
parking, the WVOWS is both financially feasible and generously utopian.
It is the kind of project that can inject new life and identity in
to an area without the often fatal expense of public funds.
Peaks and valleys
The rising and declining roofs of the WVOWS creates a neighborhood
of slopes and passages rather than the traditional wall of program.
Providing the residents with uninterrupted views while also inviting
neighbors and by passers to enter and explore the new form of open
block.
The wedge
Towards the west between Kronprinsen and Kronprinsessan we propose
to remove the healthcare center to a new location and create a new
elongated public space. Wedged between the School and the residents
and open to the south it is the perfect place for the students to
hang out during the day, leaving it to the local residents and customers
in the afternoon. A hard pavement populated with random trees extends
the public park all the way from the park to the street.
The promenade
To the east a promenade serves as the main arrival from downtown Malmø
to the football games. As a generous extension of the street it serves
as a wide sidewalk capable of consuming the large masses of people
prior and post games.
The plaza
In the northwest corner the diagonal passage arrives at the main entrance
to Kronprinsans shopping and the park above. This is a natural meeting
point for the neighborhood and will be freed from parking to become
a plaza
The diagonal
The main diagonal is the widest of passages, kept clear to allow access
to the pipeline below. Trees and outdoor serving will populate the
diagonal on active days.
Archipelago of gardens
The archipelago of gardens provides a public retreat above the lively
(and noisy) streets below.
Venice of canals and bridges
Glazed bridges connect the first floor programs as well as the gardens
above.
Sportshall
The central sportshall is dimensioned for football matches with 5000
spectators but can expand to double seated capacity for other events,
as well as 2-4 times more for standing concerts etc. Its integration
in the neighborhood allows it to remain visually open the many hours
of the day when concerns of privacy or sunscreening allow it.
The
main entrance is located in the block to the southeast where people
enter and descend to the level of the field in order to access the
hall. Training field, dressing rooms etc. are placed on the lower
level in the neighboring buildings flush with the football field.
Malmø høgskola
Malmø høgskola is located in the southwest peak on the
lower floors allowing the school to benefit of the abutting facilities
as well as profiting from the possibility of lending its own facilities
to the neighbors. Above the school a student residence share the access
to the elevated common courtyard.
Sydsvenskan
Sydsvenskans editorial offices are located on the north east corner
closest to downtown Malmø on 2 main floors and an entrance
level. Generous courtyards allow the daylight to travel all the way
to the ground floor.
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Shadows
and daylight
The stealthy volumes, and the distance to the neighbors ensures that
no residential neighbor will suffer from the new peaks. The 45 degree
rotated street grid of the passages ensure that all of the streets will
have direct sun at some point of the day, significantly increasing the
quality of the public space.
Solar orientation and views
The blocks are proposed programmed to get the maximum benefit of the
varying orientation in terms of daylight, cooling, passive solar heat
gain and sunlit exterior space. The sloping surfaces improve solar reception
while diminishing long shadows cast on the neighbors.
Flexibility
The masterplan consists of a very simple combination of typologies.
A public oriented base of 2 to 3 levels containing public programs,
shops, education or offices – exploiting the good connection to
the street as well as the benefits of large continuous floor plates.
Above slim slabs of housing, hotel or offices are proportioned to maximize
daylight, views and fresh air. If desirable the upper programs can be
completed as corporate headquarters with glass covered atriums or south
facing slopes of terrace houses. They can all be completed as optimized
variations of the simple and universal typology of the slab. This ensures
that no matter what, the original vision of the complex can be realized
within the margins of the final choice of program and typology.
Phasing
The WVWS can be realized in several phases. Each of the 5 plots can
be realized and inaugurated independently, but can be gradually interconnected
to ultimately constitute an integrated whole. The sequence of realization
can also be alternated allowing the investors the flexibility of completing
the components that are most urgent or marketable. Each component contains
public and private elements, architecture and landscape.
Facades
For the facades we propose light Ceramic tiles in combination with large
well-insulated windows to maximize daylight and view, framed by wooden
or aluminum mullions. The ceramic tiles will be made from various recycled
materials making it a both environmentally, financially and aesthetically
attractive solution. Also the ceramics echo the characteristic façade
of the neighboring Kronprinsen tower, allowing us to blow new life into
an ancient tradition.
Sustainability – passive house
Combining optimal orientation for passive solar heat gain and daylight
as well as active means ie PV panels, solar panels for hot water and
geothermal infrastructure it is our aim to make a passive house development
free from energy consumption for other than electrical appliances. We
are currently doing a carbon free development of a million m2 in Azerbaijan
as well as a 33.000m2 mixed use passive house development in Hamburg
harbor, and for Malmø we would aim at the same level of sustainability
exclusively utilizing initiatives and technologies that are both economically
profitable and technically reliable.
WVWS CREDIT LIST
Partner-in-Charge:
Bjarke Ingels
Project
Leader: Nanna Gyldholm Møller
Contributors:
Gabrielle Nadeau, Daniel Sundlin, Jonas Barre, Nicklas Antoni Rasch,
Jin Kyung
Park, Fan Zhang, Steve Huang, Flavien Menu, Ken Aoki
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Toda
la información es cortesía de BIG / Bjarke Ingels
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