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Carlsberg
The project is an answer to the international
competition for the integration of the Carlsberg Breweries in Copenhagen into
the urban fabric due to the discontinuiation of the production from the end of
2008. An area of 33 hectares containing valuable Danish cultural hritage will
be converted into "dense, vibrant and pulsating city district ".
It is obvious that the site as it is today has no clear and
rational structure. The only way to keep it’s appearance and not just simply
rebuild it from scratch is to accept it’s laws. We chose to create a smooth,
friendly neighbourhood where old could live with the new in harmony and
according to the already existing rules… The existing highly valuable buildings
are preserved. A series of four hills covers a major part of the site, uniting
all the heterogeneous elements in one global piece. Nature takes over…
No boring neo-modern urbanism. No long, straight avenues and side
streets. The apparent chaos of the site is melted into a matrix of
possibilities.
The exist on two levels…
The first is the obvious one. A huge park on the top. It enables the
easy access to all the parts of the visible programme. One can stroll through
this urban countryside and at anytime have at reach the most prestigious
cultural and sports facilities. The thick skin of the hills contains on a part
of its surface patches of Garden Dwellings : single-family houses with gardens,
accessible directly from the surface.
The second one is less apparent. A large part of the cellars connecting
the existing buildings on the site are transformed into a continuous under/over
ground public space, connecting all the parts of the site in one giant web. It seemed
necessary to keep this web as the only and perfect sign of the history of the
area. The spirit of Carlsberg Breweries still haunts the city.
An area thick of 15 meters around the web is considered as a potential
building area. This is the level of the commercial architecture. A huge flow of
people occupies it during the day. A series of light domes brings the sun to
the interior.
Around the inner core the buildings reach towards the neighbourhoods.
The matrix is simplified in order to be accepted by the existing city. Housing
buildings are spreaded on the ground in a way to create higher densities on the
outskirts and lower towards the inside of the site. Their roofs all contain
planted terraces, as if the buildings rise from the ground taking with them the
earth, plants, insects, men…The surroundings of the buildings go from very
mineral on the outside limits towards more and more green.
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