2020/21
Precedent - public enclosure ‘A building is like a soap bubble. This bubble is perfect and harmonious if the breath has been evenly distributed from the inside. The exterior is the result of interior.’
The Superkilen is a colourful square, which not only attracts visitors because of its activities, but because of its contrasting look between other buildings.
Thomas Schumacher from ‘Contextualism: Urban ideals and Deformations’, 1971
This has inspired to develop a square that would attract visitors with it’s colourfulness (art gallery) and landscape developed in 3.2 that would allow people to accumulate in the area.
Directions of movement, interacting with the buildings creating enclosure, a public square.
The treshold from the North side, creating a narrower, rounder area as if guiding people to stay in.
The treshold from public (traffic filled area) into a cozy, pedestrian only area.
Superkilen by Bjarke Ingels Group, Superflex, Topotek 1 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
STUDIO 3.1 / Jana Senberga 23
