Urban Collage
Counteracting fragmentation in the Haraldsgadekvarteret
L.J. Krijnen (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Antonio Cantero – Mentor (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
G.Y. Warries – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
Sang Lee – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
Joris S.C.M. Hoekstra – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Urban Development Management)
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Abstract
The Haraldsgadekvarteret, located in Copenhagen, is a neighborhood that suffers from fragmentation due to the way its set up. This project aims to mitigate that, by creating a building consisting of different volumes that are based on physical characteristics of pieces of urban fabric in the neighborhood. This makes the building identifiable for the residents in the neighborhood. Unlike the neighborhood however, these different volumes are connected due to the functional nature of the spaces in between them. For these connections, both between the volumes and on a functional level within the volumes, the notion of indeterminacy is used as a tool to design these spaces, becoming a vehicle for many important aspects of the building, like hybridity, occupancy and sustainability.