1.0 Interpretations of the existing 1.1 Enclaves and/or a network of ecologies
Grorud
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LOCATION within Oslo MOSAIC OF ENCLAVES EXISTING ENCLAVES PROMOTED ECOLOGIES Grorud Senter is located in the north-eastern part of the Grorud Valley. Grorud Senter potentially linking the surrounding neigborhoods Grorud, Ammerud, Romsas and Grorud Senter defining and connecting the enclave trough adjacencies
Cumulus – Grorud densified SITE MODEL Grorud, Oslo
Oslo’s population is expected to double within the next ten years. The subcentre Grorud is part of Oslo’s densification strategy and therefore aims at bringing in new inhabitants while consolidating the existing. Diversifying social structure comes along with the sustainability imperative – what is the public space to project from these demands?
Cumulus is a proposal for Grorud that believes in the latent potentials of the site: its latent ecologies and orders, the environmental presence of outer city low density urbanism, the mix and publicness of the blunt peripheral pro- grammes and the underlying ideas of modern light and lit dwelling manifest in the existing housing slabs of Grorud senter. Cumulus is thus a strategy to re-cycle, de-sectorise and confront these latencies and interweave them through a con- cept of (water) flow: The project conceives social spaces as related to environmental dynamics and develops a close - but not too close- public sphere inherent to the loose aggregate at hand.
Cloud! The white and heavy cumulus congestus cloud serves as performative model to develop an architectural Pedestrian and Bicycle Connection to Ammerud T-Bane Terminal typology for this synthesising approach: undetermined and open on the ground, heavy and stable on first floor, a Bus Terminal spongy heap in the sky. It floats above and fixates rudimentary every day programmes, it enables an intimate and lit Allotment Gardens inhabitation of the skies, it collects and stores water while the release of this water becomes a social event – on the Water Purification day in nearing winter when it is cold enough to freeze the flooded surfaces to an ice skating plane. Morphologically the typology enables desired shifts in scale: On ground the crowding of programmes assembles to- Allotment Gardens wards a patchy canopy rather than a homogenising cover. Above ground miniature skyscrapers at the scale of single Watershed rooms produce a multiplicity of spatial situations and light conditions. They fabricate a sense of urban “interior” at a small scale while keeping it open to the environment. Social densities and encounters merge with openness and Allotment Gardens porosity.
Cumulus builds on an accumulation of public programmes within a defined area framed by an ecology of gardening and sports. It strives for a packed mix and the adjacencies of different users: Close, but not to close! Above this social field hover private dwellings, which are developed as a means to live in the sky: You can wander from one part of your L – shaped apartment to the other by crossing a glass bridge: Air and the outdoors become part of the house.
A step by step guide to Cumulus:
1.0 Interpretations of the existing on a set of scales: 1.1 Enclaves and/or a network of ecologies - Start with the programmatic enclaves of the 6os and 70s, read their separating borders as different ecological bands touching each other: river streams, topographical conditions, forest straps and lawn belts. Together they form possible later a network. Thicken this net by developing a new frame for the Grorud Senter. This will host allotment gardens, sport Sport Fields Allotment Gardens extensions fields, jogging trails, and constructed wetlands – an open ecology coined by human inhabitation. - Within the frame: relax the highway into a web of urban streets: This introduces a horizontal logic of movement and brings the two if not four parts of Grorud together: Culture and education, sports, shopping and transportation. Favour crossovers instead of programmatic separation.
1.2 Everyday programmes and/or their spatial articulation - Start with an inventory of the existing everyday programmes such as gas station, bus terminal, pizza place and fit- ness studio. Move the planed ice skating rink to the site. This will be an initial. Add a supermarket, a hot dog stand, a bowling center, a cinema, a hamam – attracting people from regional Oslo - and a community centre serving the very local needs! - Shift these programmes next to each other. Count on their different heights, lights, signage and users. Arrange them dynamically and in such a way that diagonal relations emerge and connection across the site are promoted. - Add a thick layer of program on top: a heap of dwellings. This will serve as the attic as in classical architecture yet it is inhabitable. The aim is to create a canopy that will loosely merge the different public programmes into a continuous, overlapping field.
1.3 Modernist dwelling and/or inhabiting the sky - Start with the advantages of modern panoramic living: Light, air and views. Combine it with old town adjacencies of facing street sides where casual glances of the neighbours and their lives are possible. - Exaggerate the idea of airiness and lightness: The L, S or U - shaped configuration of an apartment makes out- door space part of the dwelling. Amplify this concept through the luxury of having parts of the apartment connected through a glass-house bridge that can be completely opened in summertime. Translucent insulation keeps the warmth in, the sun out and makes light an intrinsic part of the dwelling. - Save square meters and shift your house towards the others. Privacy is guaranteed by partial use of mirrored glass and curtains as a second layer – your fellow citizens’ walls become yours. Glimpses across to the neighbours’ and long views into the wider surroundings alternate. Inhabiting the sky means the sharing of clouds, air, reflections and light conditions and daily rhythms. N SITE PLAN M 1/5000 MODEL PHOTOGRAPHS OF GRORUD SENTER 01050 250 25
1.2 Everday programmes and/or their spatial articulation
Quary Rock Festival Lakes for Swimming Lakes for Swimming
T-Bane Terminal Fitness Centre Pizza Restaurant
Shopping Mall Gas Station Commercial Hill
Kindergarden School Social
Sports Fields Church Sports and Leisure
Cemetary
INVENTORY 4 PROGRAMMATIC FIELDS AND CROSSOVER AS INITIAL WEB OF URBAN ROADS AND PEDESTRIAN PATH DENSE PACKING OF PROGRAMMES SUMMER OUTDOOR PROGRAMS WINTER OUTDOOR PROGRAMS it’s all there supports horizontallity of movements rearranging the packing according to sun exposure: ice skating surface connects all public programmes close but not too close relationships
CONNECTIONS AND RELATIONS OF PROGRAMMES ADJUSTMENTS OF PROGRAMMES RESULTING SPACES OF INTERACTION to site boundaries and through rotation of the cen- tral ice skating rink for better connectivity 1.3 Modernist dwelling and/or inhabiting the sky
supermarketsupermarket gas station work out +
COMBINING MODERNIST PANORAMIC VIEW AND OLD TOWN INTIMITE RELATIONSHIP CROWNING ORDINARY PROGRAMS OF THE PERIFERY WITH HOUSING a cloud inhabited by air dwellers is defining a continuous horizontal public field on ground level
europan 9 ...01 sustainable city and new public spaces CUMULUS Over the course of the year the sky bridge is changing character. In sum- mertime it can be opened completely and turned into the large outdoor OSLO - NORWAY space of the apartment. During the transitional periods it serves an ad- GH028 ditional indoor space and during wintertime it works as a climate buffer like a winter garden.
2.0 Social spaces related to environmental dynamics 2.1 Seasonal changes
long views Allotment Gardens
Rain Water Rain Water Collection Surfaces Apartments Collection Allotment Surfaces Gardens summer Sky space Bridge winter space winter space Offices Rain Water Sky Collection Surfaces Bridge Apartments look at your own Apartments house from inside
Apartments partial mirror glass Rain Water garuantees for privacy Collection Surfaces Rain Water Collection Surfaces
Sky Bridge Rain Water Allotment Collection Surfaces Rain Water Gardens Collection Surfaces Sky Bridge Apartments Apartments Sky Bridge
Apartments Rain Water 015 10 Collection APARTMENTS INHABITING THE SKY M 1/300 Surfaces Rain Water Collection Surfaces
Offices Rain Water Collection Surfaces
HABITATION LEVEL M 1/1000 010 2550
T-Bane Terminal
Watershed & Allotment Water Purification Gardens
Watershed & Bus Terminal Water Purification Allotment Gardens Fitness Studio Bike Rental
Travel Agency Stair to Parking
Pizza Restaurant Flower Shop Watershed & Entry Parking Water Purification
Fresh Food Market Community Public CONGESTION WITH A VIEW Centre Pool Allotment fragmentation garantees a view for every apartment Gardens
Shopping Mall Outdoor Ice Skating Rink
Entry to Hamam Bowling Centre Allotment Indoor Ice Skating Rink Gardens
Entry Parking Mini Topography to cross Ice Surface Entry to Cinema Hot Dog Watershed & Bar Water Purification Stair to Parking Gas Station
Ball Room Playground
In & Out Burger
Winter Use
PUBLIC SPACE LEVEL - SUMMER M 1/1000 FACADE DIFFERENCIATION 010 2550 transparent - translucent shutters - single and double glazed - mirrored
Outdoor Pool Summer Use Weekly Market Outdoor Stage
Vacum Cleaning Station
Ice Café
Outdoor Cinema with seating topography
PUBLIC SPACE LEVEL - WINTER M 1/2000 PLATFORM LEVEL M 1/2000 UNDERGROUND PARKING M 1/2000 APARTMENT DIVERSITY AND OFFICES 01020 100 25
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2.2 Water cycles
1000 liter / m2 /p.a.
270.000 liter /p.a. 1500.000 liter /p.a.
water collection on the roofs of the apartment towers
communal washing maschines filled with collected rainwater
water collection on the platforms
2 loads p.w. /p.p.
greywater drains to the constructed wetlands 1500.000 liter /p.h.
INHABITING THE AIR
drain lits parking yearly flooding event garage underneath
water freezes to an Ice skating surface
flooding of surface with rainwater collected on the platforms
melting water drains to the constructed wetlands
evaporation
2.0 Social spaces related to environmental dynamics constructed wetlands 2.1 Seasonal changes filter and clean the Consider the extremities of northern living: Long summer nights and dark winter days equal the expansion greywater and contraction of programmes. For the summer: reserve spaces for the weekly market, the kid’s pool, film screenings and communal dancing; for the winter: re-use these surfaces for ice skating, skating lessons and punch, hot wine and chessnuts.
2.2 Water cycles Look at a dominant environmental force: rain. Dwelling becomes an active part of the environment when collecting water on top, on the facades and on the platform. On top enough water can be harvested to supply a neighbourhood of dwellings with their weekly loads of washing machines. Water collected on the facades and on the platforms will be stored to serve an event in early winter: the release of water to cleaned water attracts freeze. An ice skating surface congeals slowly according to the smooth topography of the area. In spring animals and is used for time, when the water is warming up, it will be discharged into the constructed wetlands – ultimately to help irrigation of the allot- gardening the allotments and trough animals passing by. ment gardes
WATER HARVESTING & FLOW DIAGRAM
ELEVATION M 1/500 Cinema Hot Dog Stand Ice Skating Rink IN&Out Burgers Gas Station
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Rain Water Collection Rain Water Collection Surfaces Surfaces Rain Water Collection Rain Water Collection Surfaces Surfaces
Rain Water Rain Water Communal Spaces Collection Collection Surfaces Communal Spaces Surfaces
Bus Terminal Travel Agency Super Market Ice Skating Rink Cinema PRINCIPAL SECTION M 1/500 05 25
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