Residential complex layout has been designed to enable people to meet outside and socialize. Different urban spaces with different qualities can offer various purposes and provide unique experience. The complex area is attracting people through the inviting shape of the southern facades granting access to the site. The building form creates a straight path, leading towards an active public space with cafe and restaurant by the water, which cannot be noticed until the destination of open waterfront is reached. In this way, the residential buildings are supposed to activate the neglected harbor place and bring a new value to the site.
Typology: residential
Location: Aalborg
Size: 3,680 m2
Year: autumn 2018
Team: Barbara Høyer Johansen,
Drashti Shantiv Mehta,
Louise Bagge Mikkelsen,
Tanja Krogh Andersen
Building form is designed to encourage inhabitants to social integration. The urban spaces with various site qualities have different purposes and provide unique experiences. The complex area is attracting people through the inviting shape of the southern facades granting access to the site.
The building form creates a straight path, leading towards an active public space with cafe and restaurant by the waterfront, which cannot be noticed until the destination of open waterfront is reached. This way, the residential buildings activate the neglected harbor place and bring new value to the site. When walking down the east, the enclosed and more private urban space occur between the buildings, shielded from the waterfront and creating a safe outdoor environment for children.
