Urban Fade By visiondivision
This is the competition entry by Swedish architects visiondivision for Koivusaari Idea Competition, to create a new city district on a small island just outside Helsinki, Finland.
From the architects’ blog:
‘In Koivusaari you will experience a great urban diversity on a relatively small island; a dense city core that gradually fades to smaller premises and that eventually becomes archipelago. The island becomes a distillation of the best qualities that each one of the urban typologies has to offer; the intense city center with offices, shops and services close to the bus and subway station, the medium sized town with more green areas, restaurants and residential units, the small town that lies almost in a park situation and finally the archipelago with public piers and pavilions with good life activities. By keeping it dense, the distances between the new districts
parts is kept short and you don’t have to do so much fillings around the island to get a lively city area. This is good for both the environment and from a economical point of view.
Almost every residential unit has a sea view and they also have a glass room that cantilevers from the façade, creating a new typology, a deluxe room where you have a panorama over the ocean and where you can enjoy the cityscape to the fullest. The city grid is highly efficient and has many advantages; it creates lines of views, it has many options of moving around in the district and it makes the variation in the building scales even more dramatic, an optical illusion that enhances the archipelago backdrop. Koivusaari is planned to accommodate around 5000 people and have 2500 working places. The island will have about 200 000 m2 residential space, 75000 m2 office space and 45000m2 business premises that makes a total built floor space area of 320 000 m2. The land area is a little bit more than 175000 m2.
The jury divided the different proposals into four categories; ‘Upper Class’, ‘Middle Class’, ‘Lower Middle Class’ and ‘Lower Class’.
Apparently we were placed in the ‘Lower Middle Class’ category.’
I really appreciate, the idea was really great. Though, for me, it seems to be like the “nakagin capsule tower” of kisho kurokawa, but more spread horizontally. (That was just my opinion).. The idea was brave enough though! thumbs up! good job
Great modernistic project. I see a lot of Le Corbusier in this proposal, looks like a machine. Beautiful!
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