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| Nordholmene – Urban Delta | COBE + SLETH MODERNISM + Polyform + Rambøll Posted: 05 Jan 2010 09:38 AM PST  Nordholmene – Urban Delta, image courtesy of COBE, SLETH MODERNISM, Polyform and Rambøll  Nordholmene – Urban Delta, strategy diagram courtesy of COBE, SLETH MODERNISM, Polyform and Rambøll Nordholmene – Urban Delta, a sustainable metropolis development project at the northern harbor area in Copenhagen, Denmark. The project is currently being developed by COBE, in collaboration with SLETH MODERNISM, Polyform and Rambøll, expected to be transformed the current northern harbor into a new Copenhagen neighborhood within the next 40 to 50 years. + Project description courtesy of COBEDanish Architects COBE, in collaboration with SLETH MODERNISM, Polyform and Rambøll, are currently developing the largest urban transformation project in Scandinavia. With 200 ha, Copenhagen's Northern harbor is today used as harbor, but expected to be transformed into a new Copenhagen neighborhood within the next 40 to 50 years. Fully developed, it will provide the living environment of 40.000 residents. 40.000 people will work there.  Nordholmene – Urban Delta, image courtesy of COBE, SLETH MODERNISM, Polyform and Rambøll With the post industrial landscape as a starting point and guideline, a series of new canals are dug out. While respecting the cultural heritage of the harbour, the canals add new qualities to the plan in several areas: they improve liveability as well as commercial value, they act as a tool for feasible phasing, and they give a sense of place in the vast Nordhavnen area. The resulting islets will become individual neighbourhoods, each with own identies and qualities.  Nordholmene – Urban Delta, image courtesy of COBE, SLETH MODERNISM, Polyform and Rambøll The islets will all have mixed programmes of housing, offices, commerce, culture, sports etc. The project has a distinct emphasis on the south facing quays. Multiplied by the addition of new canals, each one holds significant qualities and potentials. All quaysides will be publically accessible, and in terms of greenery and landscaping graduate from dense and urban in the south, to wide and wild in the north.  Nordholmene – Urban Delta, image courtesy of COBE, SLETH MODERNISM, Polyform and Rambøll Strong emphasis is put on bikes and public transportation. An elevated metro loop paired with express bike lanes tie the area together. As well as being a strong visual and recreational element, the combined metro/bike system will reduce car journeys to 25% of the total traffic in the area.  Nordholmene – Urban Delta, image courtesy of COBE, SLETH MODERNISM, Polyform and Rambøll Faced with climate change as a result of modern way of life, the urban development of such vast territories implies great responsibilities on the makers of new cities. "Nordholmene" applies a holistic view on ecological sustainability in all aspects of the development.  Nordholmene – Urban Delta, image courtesy of COBE, SLETH MODERNISM, Polyform and Rambøll Local solutions regarding energy, water and waste management are paired with a regional outlook on sustainability, incorporating region-wide networks.  Nordholmene – Urban Delta, image courtesy of COBE, SLETH MODERNISM, Polyform and Rambøll With innovative solutions rooted in the project from the very beginning, "Nordholmene" makes use of geothermics, heat pumps for storing energy produced by local wind turbines, and alternative energy sources namely "sea lettuce", a fast-growing algea absorbing CO2 channelled from a nearby power plant, for producing heat, ethanol and electricity. These and other innovative solutions make "Nordholmene" a truly sustainable city. "Nordholmene" has been showcased as a lighthouse project during the COP15 climate conference in Copenhagen, December 2009. + Project credits / dataProject: Nordholmene – Urban Delta
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| Posted: 05 Jan 2010 07:32 AM PST  RATP Bus Centre, image courtesy of ECDM  RATP Bus Centre, image courtesy of ECDM The RATP Bus Centre by Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) appears like a monolith with rounded edges, polished, and partially cut out to expose multi-colored glass skin. Characterized by a dense square plan (35m x 35m) developed on 2 levels, the skin Ductal ® extended from the road surface to the façades, the suspended ceilings and the terrace rooftop without any rupture.
+ Project description courtesy of ECDMLocated in the southern suburban area of Paris along wide boulevards and roadway interchanges, in an industrial landscape characterised by a succession of boxes (at best basic), the RATP Bus Centre in Thiais controls all the bus lines of the south and east of Paris. The centre accommodates 300 buses. 800 bus drivers pass through the building every day, including the administrative, the security and the maintenance staffs which manage the Bus Centre. It’s a flux building. In this fuzzy territory, only one federating element can be pointed out: the 100 % inorganic ground of the site – a mix of asphalt and concrete. So, we reduced the site to its primary function: a bus park, a vast monolithic slab, uniform mineral territory.  RATP Bus Centre, image courtesy of ECDM The existing concrete crust that covers the evolution area of the buses is distorted, modeled to cover the administrative center. The building starts with the deformation of the ground and continues it with an apparently similar material, a sheet of ultra high performance concrete, paradoxical and superlative, 3 cm thick displaying a non slippery texture of dots in relief like a game of “LEGO” (24 mm diameter x 7 mm high, distant of 12 mm) contributing to a kinetic morphing which responds to very sophisticated demands : informality of the structure, constant evolution of the plans, density, homogeneity, dematerialization, precision, durability towards emphasized constraints. It ensures a continuity of the ground from the road, to the skin of the facades, the suspended ceilings and the terrace rooftop without any rupture, proposing a merging between the building and its support to a point of confusion. The building has neither a beginning nor an end. The plasticity of the material combined with its mechanical performance induces an all-over appropriate to a multiplicity of uses and maximized solicitations, possibly opened to a non-control of the limits and the uses.  RATP Bus Centre, image courtesy of ECDM The building appears like a monolith with rounded edges, polished somehow, required here as a morphing of the context to cover the carcass of a composite program. The result is a dense, inert and deaf building, as enigmatic as the hull of a Russian submarine in the waters of Murmansk.  RATP Bus Centre, image courtesy of ECDM The concrete hull is cut out with a Stanley knife, surgical incisions revealing cavities of reflective and coloured glass. Treated with silver mirror dots, chromatics of the glass products are inspired by the tinted curtain wall frontages of the office buildings which border the main road. Aside the administrative building, the program also includes the realization of a new checkpoint of the centre and a bikes shelter.  RATP Bus Centre - Ground floor plan, drawing courtesy of ECDM  RATP Bus Centre - 1st floor plan, drawing courtesy of ECDM  RATP Bus Centre - Section, drawing courtesy of ECDM  RATP Bus Centre - Detail 1, drawing courtesy of ECDM  RATP Bus Centre - Detail 2, drawing courtesy of ECDM  RATP Bus Centre - Detail 3, drawing courtesy of ECDM + Project credits / dataProject : RATP BUS CENTRE IN THIAIS (France-94) Client : RATP Main contractors : Photographers : Benoit FOUGEIROL – Philippe RUAULT + All images and drawings courtesy of ECDM                    
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