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PROFESSIONAL COMPETITION EUROPAN 2009(RESULTS PENDING)COLLABORATORS: PETROS PHOKAIDES STELIOS GIAMARELOS

VARDO :

TERMINALEUROPAN 10 ENTRY

FLOWS AND INFRASTRUCTURE OF A METROPOLITAN INTENSITY

Very much is at stake when considering

the current situation of Vardo as well as

the uncertainty of its unfolding over time -

especially when regarding the future of the fish

industry, the challenge of tourism, and even the

investment in Zumthor’s work. This nebulous

current situation doesn’t leave safe ground for

one-way solutions. By contrast, it calls for the

adoption of a multitude of equally uncertain

strategies that have the potential to produce the

required urban results - each one autonomously

or in the (partly unpredictable) dynamic

combination of them all.

We have devised a kit of urban strategies that can

be partially, gradually or simultaneously adopted

by the city. Our approach also involves time and

a multitude of city rhythms as an equivalent

player in the design game.

Catering for both the requirements of an

attraction of the short-term passing-by

multitudes, as well as those of the long-term

citizens themselves, the proposed strategic kit

adopts this kind of a peculiar dual viewpoint

in every single one of its programmatic design

elements. In 1982, Norway decides to construct

its first ever underwater tunnel that connects

Vardo with the mainland.Metropolitanism

reaches out for the island. A similarly confident

investment in the direction of implementing

infrastructure that recontextualises the bold

vision of the past by incorporating it into a

larger infrastructure, seems necessary again

today. Inspired by the raw connectivity between

mainland, sea and island we fantasize a manifold

of infrastructure struggling to twine the secluded

island along with its geopolitical context and

wire it with an intricate network of exchanges

and transfers: Materials, heat, multitudes, flows

and public space. Since you could pierce the

land underseas to open up a highway back then -

anything is possible now.

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museum land rocks strip multitudes aquarium swimming poo

PRODEN - CONT

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VIRONMENT

DISCO

DANC

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BEACH

LIVING ROOM

Vardo airport

Town Hall Square

Globus II

Port A

Kirkenes port

Millenium Path extension

EV75 underground extension

Passengers deck

EV75 tunnel

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Re-booting a shrinking city:

The strip as node: Reinforcing the connection

of the port of Vardo with the already-existing

naval highways and attempting a unification of

its 2 sides (inner and outer - high and low-traffic

naval streets of Vardo, respectively). A control-

led environment is in fact the starting point for

the introduction of new programs in Vardo’s

revisited (public) domesticity that offers exotism

in a shell.

Island-in-a-port: A landfill attempting to cre-

ate another public surface that can bring together

the two dividing sectors of urban Vardo and offer

sufficient ground for the organisation of activities

(festivals, market days and concerts) at the new

heart of the city

Wet public spaces: The concept of the open-

air pool reattributes the innermost southern part

of the port as a new kind of wet public space.

An adjustable system of infrastructure that allows

for control of the environmental qualities of in-

door space (temperature, light, sound,

air). The isolated building as shelter to extreme

weather conditions and provider of an interior

domestic life hosts a set of controllers of the mi-

cro-climate conditions.

time framework

Time becomes an equivalent player in the city de-

sign game.As long as a multitude of city rhythms

is fundamentally involved in structuring Vardo’s

life, the calendar becomes a supplementary design

tool, of both analytical and constructive signifi-

cance, in an attempt to rationalise flows in a time-

framework.

Memorial to

the burning

of Witches

Vardohus fortress

High School

Town Hall Square Aquarium-Pools Land Fill Dock B

“Proden” building

Millenium Path

“Brodtkorp

Sjaene”

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PROPOSED WELCOMING BILLBOARD

RANDOM DISPERSION OF LATENT EMPTINESS

MICRO-CLIMATE FORMATIONS

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VIEW FROM STRIP LEVEL - IMPLEMENTED PROGRAM AB

OVE

amphitheatre

athletic club

temporary residence

office

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parking lot

laboratory

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