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Holbæk Kasba

Holbæk is a city in Denmark's Sjælland region, sitting on the banks of a fjord. Not surprisingly, the city has an active seaport with a harbor for a ferry crossing to Norway, among other uses. When the Danish Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) was confronted with a project on this waterfront they asked, "how do you combine the harbor areas on the big scale with intimacy and sensory experiences on the human scale?"


[view of model looking NW, with their Hotel in Holbæk Harbor in the top right]

This query into finding a balance between the large and small scales, the urban and the architectural, the abstract and the phenomenological, is one that could easily be applied to other urban areas; in effect it could be the question for architects facing ever-larger projects in cities. Here the program is for 13,500 sm (145,000 sf) of primarily residential space, composed of 100 units divided equally among 2br and 3br types.


[modifying the "ideal" to the local]

BIG started with a generic grid of equal-sized plots of consistent height, "a dense and low kasbah of dwellings that have been twisted and turned thus creating a labyrinth of small open spaces and hiding places for life, play and socializing between the houses." This consideration of the space between buildings -- clearly more interesting in the modified plan than the generic grid -- is something Jan Gehl would definitely appreciate.


[overhead view of model with north to the bottom]

Additionally the somewhat regular or patterned grouping of buildings that is the outcome of the twisting and turning (evident in the model view above) is built atop an artificial hill created by a parking garage below the houses. This affords the residents of the high, middle units views over the next tier, who have views over the next tier, etc.


[different unit types and their plan distribution]

The residential units are composed of complex, interlocking pieces that afford most of the units different frontages, and therefore multiple exposures, views and relationships to the spaces between the buildings.


[in the kasbah]

Architecturally, the project needs development. The flat white boxes with large openings convey ideas of simplicity, transparency and connection, but the architects shouldn't forget that the "intimacy and sensory experiences on the human scale" includes the tactile quality of the walls and other architectural surfaces. Nevertheless it's easy to grasp a sense of the awareness one would have moving up and down the slopes between the buildings; as well one can imagine the smells wafting from the different houses, competing with each other in the Danish kasbah.


["nighttime" view of model]

2 Sites

Here's a couple cool sites worth sharing.

Gaaleriie

The third installment on gaaleriie.net features SANAA's Zollverein School of Management and Design (2007) in Essen, Germany. The documentation of the project includes 42 1/2 minutes of video, many images, and some clever navigation.

archiCULTURE

"Archiculture is a feature length documentary that examines contemporary issues surrounding the realm of architecture through the perspective of university students during their final thesis semester." This Friday the Center for Architecture will host a trailer debut party, from 6-8pm.

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Highway Noise Barrier

One product of the two main components of sprawl -- dispersed living patterns and the high-speed roads that allow access to them -- is all too often relegated to engineers and manufacturers instead of designers, and therefore is all too often an eyesore. I'm talking about highway noise barriers, those walls erected along the sides of highways where development occurs, and where those in the development do not want to hear (or see) the cars speeding by.

Here's an example of a barrier frequently found along North American highways, basically steel piers with precast infill, the latter in this case treated to resemble a stone wall:


[A small portion of the 7 million square feet of noise barriers installed by Durisol | image source]

This wall surely won't be winning any design awards, but it will continue to be installed by developers and jurisdictions that don't want to pay too much for what's becoming more and more required, as highways and dwellings creep ever closer together.

A couple projects previously featured on my weekly page show that the best case for raising the bar on the design of these barriers is to make them part of a building; in other words bring the architecture to the road, don't use the barrier to separate the two.


[Acoustical Barrier + Hessing Cockpit by ONL | image source]

The Acoustical Barrier + Hessing Cockpit by ONL is easily the most high-profile recent project to tackle such a proposition. The one-mile stretch of highway that the wall parallels is treated to a lattice-work of steel structure holding up glass panels in a concave section, reflecting sound back to the highway. The "Cockpit" of the project's name -- a car showroom -- inhabits the center of the barrier's one-mile distance, a suitable use for a structure so wedded to its merchandise's favorite surface.


[Acoustical Barrier + Hessing Cockpit by ONL | image source]

A few years before ONL pulled off that feat in the Netherlands, Jean Nouvel proposed a similar solution in Italy for Brembo, a manufacturer of automobile brakes. The Brembo Research Office, for good reason, also goes by the monicker "the Red Kilometer."


[Brembo Research Office by Jean Nouvel | image source]

Completed last year, the facility's long red wall is an even stronger statement than the Dutch lattice-work, something appropriate to the land of Ferrari. Like the ONL design, Nouvel's barrier has a presence on both sides, in effect making something that is usually an afterthought the most important element of a building...and perhaps even the most important element of a highway.

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