URBAN RENEWAL SOLVANGSKVARTERET
Type Invited competition, 1st prize
Team PLH Architects (main consultant), Primus Architects, Lemming&Eriksson Engineers, Holek&Bjørn
Role Consultants on landscape and urban space
Client Boligforeningen 3B
Size 15,000 m2
Project Start 2015
Status Ongoing
The development of the future Solvangcenter neighbourhood is not just about reviving a rundown community centre, demolishing it and replacing it with new housing for students and families. It is about creating a better and more socially robust solution for an area comprising both great challenges and plenty of qualities.
Our approach is to focus on the urban space, to revitalise the surroundings and work our way in. This way the site will not only become a new neighbourhood in the Urbanplan but also a new neighbourhood of Copenhagen.
The avenue from the Remise Park is continued all the way to Urmager Square. It is a clearly defined recreative path connecting the adjacent spaces and functions.
The area is re-connected with the city in the east-west direction and with the large park stretch in north-south direction.
WE USE THE HIERARCHY OF THE CITY
Urban life – before urban space – before buildings
WE CREATE URBAN SQUARES
Framing the urban life
WE CREATE CONNECTIONS
From dead ends to connected grid
WE CREATE ZONES
From a space of nobody to ownership of the public areas
WE BREAK DOWN THE SCALE
From very large scale to a human scale
WE CREATE DIVERSITY
From a uniform to a highly diverse city
WE USE THE LOGIC OF THE CITY
Inclusion in the city’s rationale
Studies of how life in the building relates to the urban life outside the building.
How to create a semi private zone between residence and street, and a more direct relation between a public or commercial function and the street.
Our plan will render the Solvangcenter accessible, friendly, attractive, and legible. It will be a safe area to walk through and the Remisepark north of the project site will meet a well-defined and attractive area to the south. The centre of the new Solvang neighborhood will be the new Urmagerplads providing access to the school, library, church, and new
public functions to be established on the ground floor. Pocket squares are placed at intersections where housing blocks meet. Benches and changes in paving materials create social spaces for urban recreation. The side streets are shared spaces with slow motorized traffic, pedestrians, and playing children filling the space.
