Supervisor:
Søren Skjensvold Sørensen
Sigurd Gjesti Berge
This expansion of the Bjørvika development will bring with it expanded communal transportation links, transporting you around the Akershus Festning. Making it the perfect place to live, work and spend your free time. The development focuses on a mixed-use typology, with a goal of around the clock activity. Making it a new vibrant area to go to in the city centre!
Render of the Nordic Forest in front of the Winter Garden. The pine trees are chosen as trees infront of the lower buildings, so the canopy does not block their form.
Elevation of the project seen from the opposite side of Bjørvika
Creating Connections
Creating connections brings a space alive. The placement of activities, the modulation of intensities, of densities. The volumes, landscape and context flowing together and activating each other. How are we connecting?
The site’s immediate connection to the water has been a key driver in the development. A gradual stepping of volumes, and a maintenance of sightlines to the water. Where these sightlines were key to the development of the project. Connecting to the Fjord.
As the masterplan creates a connection on the harbour walk between the Opera and Vippetangen, it was important that this passage got great attention and was a prominent feature in the development. This walk is also used to create scenic paths to the big public features in the masterplan. Making the walk special, and an event in itself. All while creating traffic to the various activities in the masterplan.
Within the regulation plan from the Oslo municipality, the site is surrounded by red-listed buildings. The site itself is not listed, but we wanted to interact with these historic buildings. Like connecting the Event Centre with the old grain silo at Vippetangen. While also generating more activity around the food court at the edge of Vippetangen.
Render from the new offices of the Department of Bioscience
Highrise in Oslo
Highrises in Oslo are few and far between, relative to other capitals it is a low rise city. Part of this masterplan wants to explore how building high in Oslo could work. The site is ideally positioned for highrise buildings, specifically because of the little to none residential areas in close proximity. And the site is almost free of existing buildings, meaning there is little stored carbon wasted through demolition.
By building high you will change the perception of several vistas, and there has to be a value judgement of the impact of these buildings. What you gain should be more than what you lose. But as the city has to grow taller, we need to explore what the highrise typology could bring to the table.
Apart from the Akershus Festning, the site has a precedent for towering buildings, with both the Vippetangen grain silo and ‘Havnelageret’ as neighbours. The project pushes these scales in order to build higher, but it also generates a more balanced context for the neighbourhood.
Opening Ground Space by Building High
A view from the deciduous forest towards the evergreen forest, with the residential complex and commercial tower to the left.
Conceptual plan of the Winter Garden.
View from the interior spaces in the Winter Garden
Fluid Continuity
The legibility and sense of direction that a space has can be emphasised through specific architectural articulation. Having walls, ceilings, forms and patterns work as semiological artefacts within a space, we can reduce the amount of specific signs given. By designing our spaces as readable areas we allow the architecture to function and inform.
Throughout Oslo Fjord Gardens we have been working with overarching movements. Having the built forms guide you through the space. There is a constant motion, and an attempt at having the volumes enhance each other through their sense of direction.
We are connecting our space to the water, the fjord. The movements you see through the space are similar to waves, having highs and lows, seamlessly joining together.
View from the Gallery and Exhibition centre, with the Munch Museum in the background.
Contact
Viktor Nordheim / Contact@viktornordheim.com / www.viktornordheim.com
Tord Mardoff Nielsen / Contact@mardoff.com