Urban icebergs in Groningen (NL), Europan 3

Burton Hamfelt, Christopher Moller, Dominic Papa and Jonathan Woodroffe were winners of Europan 3, “At home in the city” in Groningen (NL). Their mixed housing project was completed in 2002. Located on the former fortifications, the competition project promulgates a dynamic vision of the contemporary city as a set of forces combining buildings, people and transport systems and promoting urban intensity - Performance based urbanism -. The research made for the implementation into housing typologies, energy alternatives and ecology led to the project now becoming a pilot scheme for sustainable urban renewal. The project delivers a range of housing possibilities - Density housing -, through a basic type that varies across the site according to light, orientation, access and its relationship to existing buildings. They create a diversity of dynamic morphologies, as urban icebergs - Urban materiality -. The social interaction with the vitality of mature city fabric usurpe the idea of the isolated school campus in new Education space, synergy between hardware (buildings), software (education content) and “brainware” (knowledge creation) into robust urban form.

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