YEAR: third // 2014
Program: Urban Intervention
Professor: Torgeir Norheim
The issue of Stavanger marketplace is its lack of containment. The marketplace is adjacent to a Latin primary school, a park, and a wide pedestrian road. These spaces are deficient in enclosure and seep in to one another. Without proper edge and definition of activity these spaces are void of meaning. This observation is part of a larger discussion directed toward the future of the urban model.
Our generation is confronted with overpopulation, depletion of resources, over exploitation of land and dramatic climatic shifts that are creating unstable ecosystems. The negligence and commoditization of the built environment is largely to blame.
Using Stavanger marketplace as a testing ground the studio sought to devise a benchmark in which the urban environment could develop in support of creativity, sustenance, and meaningful activity. This model is meant to be regenerative and malleable as a means of accommodating the increasingly complex and unstable conditions of the modern circumstance, while maintaining intimate and local cultures and connections.