program: City center development, shopping, office and culture
client: Steen & Strøm AS
size: 180 000 m2
commision type: Invited competition 2nd Prize (2006)
status: Competition Project
year: 2006
Building a single structure which is to contain the entirety and dynamic of city life is a huge challenge that requires special attention to aspects of human fulfilment and dignity in the way these are conditioned by the urban environment. The concept of “the city as a house” seeks to build upon the success of the single-structure shopping mall and develop the principle further by infusing the single structure with all the other aspects of life, i.e. housing, workplaces, leisure etc. This creates a dynamic reminiscent of the medieval walled town where the entirety of life was lived within tight parameters........more
