CONTEMPORARY PORT RENEWALS

HAMBURGHELSINKI

AMSTERDAMBARCELONA

EVOLUTION

Entrepot port: port within an enclosed city. Goods are stored and traded in the city. Quay is also a public street. To the middle of the nineteeth century.

Transit port: port alongside an open city. Flow of goods passes the city. Division of city and port has begun. From the end of the nineteeth century.

Industrial port alongside a functional city, both as autonomous phenomena. Goods are processed in the port area. From the mid-twentieth century.

Distribution port and network city. The port is rediscovered by the city as a part of the urban landscape; the city is rediscovered by the port as a potential nerve center for logistic organisation and telecommunication

MIDDLE AGE 1850 1950 2000

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TYPOLOGY

BAY DISPERSION DOCKS GRID ARTIFICE

Génes Stockholm Liverpool New York tele-port of Tokyo

HAFENCITY HAMBURG

The city of Hamburg used to end at the customs fence of the free port, and hardly anyone ever noticed the area behind the warehouse district.

In 1997 the Hamburg City Parliament decided to realise a project known as HafenCity. A competition was organized 1999 to design a master-plan.

The planned area contains spaces for offices, commercial uses, housing, leisure and entertainment.

The design inter-links the harbour project thoroughly with the ensemble of the warehouses and the old downtown area

HafenCity is not an isolatedcity district between the inner city and the harbour, but a part of the city by the water. It is connected to the downtown area and southern city centre by various bridges.

Besides the parks,squares, and streets, the public space includes the large bodies of water of the harbour pools and Elbe.The interplay between the open spaces on land and in the water creates the special charm of HafenCity.

Subdividing the project into eight sections allows the entire district to be developed in layers

The housing blocks of Kaispeicher open views to Elbe.

The commercial services are concentrated in the dence blocks of Magdeburger Hafen.

The U-shaped blocks along the old railroads open up towards the water.

Low-rise buildings altern with green spaces .

A multipurpose hall connects public and private transport.

Mixed function of housing and commercial spaces. Low density.

Towers create counterpart to lower, closed building masses.

The buildings on the southern boulevard of Speicherstadt are situatedso, that the connection to the sea is preserved.

The design exhibits a wide variety of up-to-date urban planning typologies

The promenades and walls of the quays lie clearly above the high tide and open up extensive views.

HELSINKI, JÄTKÄSAARI

A new city district is being planned for Jätkäsaari where the most important factors in the design are the maritimequality, the urban shoreline with its favourable aspect and the potential for a whole variety of different leisure activities.

At present there is both a freight harbour and a passenger harbour at Jätkäsaari, but when the other harbour functions move away from the city centre to Vuosaari, the passenger harbour will remain. Construction at Jätkäsaari will begin at 2005 earliest.

Development of Helsinki downtown area

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The new plan for Jätkäsaariby Helsinki city planning department

New imageOld image of Jätkäsaari

AMSTERDAM

Amsterdam in the Middle Ages:the dam across the Amstel was part of the network of dikes

Initial development on opposite sides of the dike.

Amsterdam, 1544 Amsterdam, 1795

EASTERN HARBOUR AREA

1. KNSM- island2. Java-island3. Borneo- Sporenburg4. Rietlanden5. Entrepot- West, Abbatoirterrein, Veemarkt6. Piet Heintunnel

The Eastern harbour area was in use as a harbour until 1980s. In recent years it has been developed to become one of Amsterdam´s largest new residential areas. In addition to housing there will also be small-scale industry and commerce. Housing will be built in a density of 100 units per hectare.Each individual neighbourhood within the area have its own urbanplanning concept.The area is linked to Central Station and the Zuidelijke IJ-oever by the IJ-Boulevard, with the Piet-Heintunnel forming the link between the IJ- Boulevard and the city´s ring road. From the year 2005 there will be a light rail system running along the IJ-Boulevard.

Aerial view of the Borneo Sporenburg piers, and the model.

BORNEO SPORENBURG

General plan of the scheme for Borneo Sporenburg peninsulas (Amsterdam City Council)Borneo and Sporenburg are connected to the rest of Amsterdam by the Rietlanden.

The urban planning design for Borneo and Sporenburg was developed by the Amsterdam Department of Physical Planning together with West 8 Landscape Arcitects andArcitectenbureau Rudy Uytenhaak.

Grid of low-rise dwelling Sculptural blocks related to landscape

Superimposition Public space

BUILDING TYPES

Terrace house Patio house

Canal house Patio house

City block Sculptural block

Apartment Loggia with full-deph sunlight penetration

Maximizing individual voidPlan of the private spaces, in which the dense system of internal patios and the large courtyards of the three sculptural blocks are visible.

Minimizing public space

Untill 1977 KNSM- island was the home port of the Royal Dutch Steamship Company.The island is connected to the mainland by the Verbindigsdam and borders Java-island to the west.The island´s main thoroughfare is the KNSM-laan which runs along its centre.

The urban planning design for KNSM-island was made by the City of Amsterdam Department ofPhysical Planning, in collaboration with the ducht architect Jo Coenen. The lay-out and equipment of the public spaces reflects the island´s history as a harbour.

KNSM- ISLAND

Piraeus block by Hans Kollhoff and Christian Rapp

BARCELONA

1850 1900 1950 1990

New shipping and transshipment technologies led to an adaptation of existing harbor bays.

Port facilities along the coast expanded radically. Originalharbor bay remained part of the total port area

Historical port continued to operate as a transshipment, fishing and yacht marina until 1980. The yacht-marina function grew in signifiance from 1970 on.

Old port area still plays an important role as fishing, passenger and yacht harbor.

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1. Passeig de Colom-Moll de la Fusta 2. Port Vell 3. La Barceloneta 4. Poble Nou, Olympic Village 5. Reneval of Besòs, Forum 2004

Beginning in the early 1980´s, the renewal of the total waterfront was realized by means of a connected series of four individual projects.The first was the area in which the old city fronted the harbour, the passeig de Colom-Moll de la Fusta; and the second the harbour front of la Barceloneta, the Moll de la Barceloneta. These two projects combined to form the framework of the old port: Port Vell. The third project was La barceloneta´s coastline and the last the seafront of the Ensanche, with the Poble Nou industrial zone as its core element.

PASSEIG DE COLOM - MOLL DE LA FUSTA

Harbour front as part of the local network

Harbour front as part of the beltway

Harbour front as part of the seaside landscape

Barcelona 1990: main traffic network, with beltway Cinturon

Passeig de Colom- Moll de la Fusta; reestablishment of the balcony overlooking the water.Manuel de Solà- Morales

LA BARCELONETA

La Barceloneta linked to the city by the reorganization of public space

Original concept for Port Vell,showing the port as a central open area,with emphasis on visual openness, and a connection between the inner cityand la Barceloneta

Port Vell after completion of the renewedMoll d´Espanya, showing the pier as a newcentral area

La Plan for the coastline of la Barceloneta; design by Olga Tarassò and Jordi Henrich

The beach at la Barceloneta after the reorganization project, 1995 A reorganized Moll de la Barceloneta

POBLE NOU

Poble Nou: four-layered plan analysis.a. Urban and landscape related context of the designb. large scale structural elementsc. superblocksd. suburban infilling

Plan of Poble Nou

BESÒS