Klaksvík City Center in Klaksvík, Faroe Island by Kubota & Bachmann Architects_LCC

Article source: Kubota & Bachmann Architects_LCC

The first step towards future Klasvík is a central situated square referring to the former landscape (the beach) in formations of the ancient building material the stone and the new industrial history – the beginning of Klaksvík – the stone pavements for drying fish – «Fiskastykki». The new Klaksvík will meet in a environment describing the essence of Klaksvík with the new layer of today´s life in an urban space for people to meet, engage and live modern life.

SUMMER VIEW

• Architects: Kubota & Bachmann Architects_LCC
• Project: Klaksvík City Center
• Location: Klaksvík, Faroe Island
• Client: Klaksvík Town Municipality
• Type of Competition: Open International Competition
• Program: Appartement, Commerces, Administration office, Tourist information office, Hotel, Library, Sailing sea museum, culture house, bus terminal, versailles orangerie concept glass house, parking and public square
• Software used: Rhino, 3DS max and Photoshop

NIGHT VIEW / DRIVEIN THEATHER

• Competition Study Area : 7.6 ha
• Result (1st june 2012): Conpetition Entry
• Competition entry submission: 27th April 2012
• Designer: Toshihiro KUBOTA, Yves BACHMANN
• Advasar: Michel CALZADA
• Landscape Architect: Bassinet Turquin Paysage
• Environmental Engineer: Oyvind Vessia
• Architect Team: Mara Papavasiliou, Pierre VOIRIN, Meduna DALSGAARD, Robert WAAGSTEIN, Katherine KOVALCIK
• Perspective: Michael GLOUDEMAN

WINTER VIEW

The core of the intent is an outdoor space for everyone to meet in. Around the this space – the square – there are protective walls against the harsh wind. The walls consist of buildings, a green house and a windscreen. The buildings are surrounded by a green recreational area and a marina with promenade decks. On one side of the square, there is housing and shopping and on the other side there is culture,hotels and administration.

Leading to this meeting place is a local bus line, the country bus line, and the helicopter and the ships going to the north islands. The Square is connecting to the surrounding by a footbridge and paths to and from the area and a lead to the parking beneath the square. The square it self is a interpretation of the landscape before by tilting down to the sea as the beach before.

PROGRAM AXONOMETRIC

The square is a stone pavement in coarse stone resembling the old manmade and hand built stone pavements . This new space in an urban context with a feel the human scale in its size and reference will be inhabited by people meeting going from place to place, from building to building, from children playing on the «beach» and on the square, from people having coffee out side, reading in front of the library in the sun, playing music at festivals, out door film evenings , boat race, gymnastics and people meeting for a coffee after a promenade.

ELEVATION VIEW : RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KLAKSVÍK CITY CENTER AND OLD CITY

Key Diagrams

DEVELOPPEMENT IN PHASES

Photo Kubota

Photo BACHMANN

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Tags: Faroe Island, Klaksvík

Categories: 3dS Max, City Center, Photoshop, Rhino

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