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Research

The AreaDuring the last few years there has been a lot of focus on the Kolding River and the area around it– especially the raw unused areas such as the one the New River Park is going to be built upon.It has had the time and piece to grow wildly and now it stands out as a unique spot in Kolding.The area will function as a place for recreational- as well as business purposes and it will have the river as its center - the new University of Southern Denmark as its beginning and the harbor as its ending.

01The new riverpark, Kolding

“... you will discover that people will use even the smallestsurfaces and occupy thepublic space in their own way”.

Torben Gade, GBL Architects

Kolding River The area and rest places facing Kolding River

SDU Kolding, Henning Larsen Architects

Wild natureDynamic behavior Path along the riverside

Peter Christensen, eel storage,1920Thomas Thinghuus, landscape architect, Kolding Kommune

Torben Gade, GBL Architects

Åstederne - the rest placesAlong the riverside there will be built rest places named “Åsteder”– these are the focus of this project.

People have a very intuitive and dynamic behavior in the public. They give a lot to the space that they are in, but spaces can also define how people react and behave - this is the key stone in this project.

“… city equipment and façade detailing with numerousapplications are generallyrecommendable and it usuallyimplies that life in around it will be more inspiring…”

Jan Gehl. “Life between the Houses”. Page 154.

“… you will get far with honest materials… use various woods, concrete and steel since they are all hard materials…”.

Thomas Thinghuus, Kolding Technical Department

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Concept 6 “Åsteder” - 6 different furniture sequencesAs you walk along the riverside in the New RIver Park, you will experience 6 furniture platforms.Every platform displays a new way of combining 3 modules: 2 benches and 1 table.02

SIX MODULAR FURNITURE PLATFORMSwhichrelate tohuman andspatialdynamics

Natural patterns Light patterns connecting the rest places

Easy access to the riversideOpen spaces with a natural roofPoetry

The goalThe goal is to use the dynamics and curiosity of human behavior.The different combinations is planned to lead to new interpretations of how to react and behave around furniture in public spaces, and give each rest place a unique life.

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Design03 The design consists of a meeting between surfaces, materials, sur-roundings and a new conception of how to use furniture in public spaces. The tender larch wood feel and the raw surface of the fiber concrete meet in a contrast between natural and manmade.

Combination. Activity box Combination

Detail Detail. Barbeque and tiles

Each module is made of 4 surfaces that rest on each other and assemble in the middle. In profile they are broad in the end facing the middle and they thin out where they are visible. The 3 levels and the large surfaces make the furniture modules flexible regarding use. As an application the table comes with either a barbeque- or activity box.

Larch wood is found in the Danish forests. It contains a lot of resin and has very solid core, which means that its natural impregnated, and perfect for outside use.It also gets a beautiful patina during time - this makes it long lasting.Fiber concrete is concrete mixed with fiberglass and it has a high tensile and flexural strength that allows the manufacture of very large elements in thin dimensions.

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Technical Drawings and Details04

Profile thickness

1 : 8

Rain Collectors

Height 920 mm

Height 720 mm

Height 500 mm

Widht 840 mm

Lenght 3600 mm Lenght 2800 mm

Pressure Point