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Precedent - public enclosure
The Superkilen is a colourful square, which not only attracts visitors because of its activities, but because of its contrasting look between other buildings.
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.
The treshold from public (traffic filled area) into a cozy, pedestrian only area.
‘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.’
Thomas Schumacher from ‘Contextualism: Urban ideals and Deformations’, 1971
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.
Superkilen by Bjarke Ingels Group, Superflex, Topotek 1 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
