the v project - ecourbanism, bergen in norway

ECOURBANISM, Bergen School of Architecture 2009/10

Presentation @ FINAL REVIEW 21/01/2010, Student Harald Brynlund-Lima

The V Project

Teachers (APP+DAV): Luke Engleback, Hans Martin Aambø, May Elin Bjerck and Eva Oulie Alvarez

The cow drinks!

• On a annual average, a cow in Norway produces about 6200 litres of milk

• While eating about 50 kilograms of fodder, it

drinks up to 60 litres of water – each day!

CULTURE AND NATURE LAYERS IN THE DAY

Nature is all around us, and it is important to be aware to our dependence of it and how it affects us. It is difficult to understand nature

when see ourselves as not a part of it

CULTURE AND NATURE LAYERS IN THE DAY

What happens when we are not a part of nature? Well, we invent and we produce tools and things to help us, that break the logic of life. The logic of life you see underneath, captured in a plastic single-use cup.

D.A.V. in Floroe,

Culture and Nature Layers in the Day

LAKSEVÅG - AREA 1,7 sq.km- DENSITY 5000 ppl/sq.km

political importance from the 1100s when the battles of Bergen and the Norwegian Civil War raged between would-be kings

economic importance in the 1750s when fish merchants needed more storage, built warehouses at Laksevåg

integrated with Bergen in the early 1900s with ferry traffic and then a bridge connection and developing as suburbia

My Learning Moments

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After getting to know Laksevåg – we understand that it does not co-exist with the natural environment. People living here are part of a culture and mindset that is developing in

Laksevåg needs to be developed into a more dense situation. In our work, we propose a quadroupling of the existing number of people living here. We propose 25000. Together with a green approach to design, this would foster a new attitude and behaviour – that means that kids growing up here can understand what a stream of water is and collect butterflies. But we also want to introduce a new vertical zoning, with commercial features on the ground levels and to a larger extent thinking about mixed use when new nurseries, school or libraries are placed.

When making architecture, climate is important.

In my project - I focus on microclimates.

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WIND

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WARMTH

VOLUMES

In the masterplan phase, we developed a diversified strategy on where we put the largest buildings. The existing transport features and site need to serve the purpose of putting a new, more intense use of the streets.

Atriums, infills, onfills, retrofittings, parks and piazzas

What do you do Harald?

Volumes

Voids

Parks and green patches

Piazzas, dedicated in-betweens

Atriums

Infills

Onfills

Retrofittings, new buildings

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