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The Nordic Built Cities Challenge

Smart, green and urban – revitalising the transport hub at Trygve Lies plass 

Oslo, Norway

2016. International Competition

THIRD PRIZE

 

Norwegian weather

The new square, as a pilot project for the development of the master plan, aims to rehabilitate the image of the entire district and create a new identity. The purpose of the project is to create a sense of collective identity (a new strong community) by incorporating structures and elements of urban furniture, immediately recognisable, favouring also the aesthetic and evocative aspects, and capable to enhance the beauty of the new square.

To foster identity, new icons and landmarks are designed in strategic points of the plot. All these elements of urban regeneration will become a source of pride for the people and trigger among them a sense of responsibility and protection of their collective public space, enhancing a feeling of unity, sharing and belonging. The preferred use of natural materials such as local stone, water and vegetation inside the square contributes to convey a harmonious and evocative appearance to the public space, reinterpreting the beauty of the northern landscape in an urban alphabet.

Team: Arch. Bianca Barducci, Arch. Matia Biguzzi, De Gayardon Buraeu

Concept

The square trygve Lies is flanked by a potential space, which will support the creation of the square and the new community.

The Trygve Lies square designs the becomes project of the phases of development and their governance. Temporary spaces and areas of construction will grow together side by side. Public actions and temporary devices will be the  catalysts for staging this coexistence into a positive union. Furuset square is flanked by a temporary public space able to host functions and activities. A public space that, despite its temporary attitude, is capable of triggering the immaterial construction of the neighborhood: build identity and sense of community.

Through the temporary space a strategy of pre-paysagement is implemented implemented. By marking the limits and new edges of the Furuset of the future, the change of the neighborhood becomes a statement: its vision is made evident to everyone.

Urban alphabet 

Furuset Development

Masterplan

Traffic and flows, users and main area of Furuset

Trygve Lies Plass in Furuset is not just the square of the future community, its design will transform it into a functional intermodal hub. Embracing the 2020 Oslo directives  providing a great reduction of CO2 emissions from private transport, Trygve Lies square is a candidate to become a pilot project  for the city of Oslo.

Cycle path are prioritized and a brand-new traffic / social infrastructure is created: the green mobility hub.

Bus stops are concentrated around the ring which now occupies a central position and focal point  in the design of the space embracing both temporary and permanent square.

The metro station is directly connected to level -1 with the green mobility hub and later to the underground parking below.

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