Fri Sikt: Øvre Volsdalsberga – Ålesund
Project details
Lokasjon
Ålesund
Størrelse
15.000m²
Oppdragsgiver
Ulsmo AS
År
Pågående
Project description
The Project is named «Fri Sikt» which translates to «Clear View». The area is directed towards a spectacular view of the fjord and mountains that is essensial to the design of these homes. The homes attract daylight and the buildings are optimized for sun exposure and wind shelter. The balconies are big with possiblities for furnishing in sones up to 3×3 meters. The design of the buildings give a «light» impact on the plot, while the exterior materials are solid and have great longevity. The outer areas invite to social interaction and connects the fjord landscapes tightly to the life among the buildings
Fredrikstad Cicignon Park
Prosjektdetaljer
Lokasjon
Fredrikstad
Størrelse
80.000m²
Oppdragsgiver
Nordic Group Holding
År
Under konstruksjon
Prosjektbeskrivelse
In Fredrikstads Cicignon Park, together with our client Nordic Group Holding, we have joined forces with Norway Environmental and BioScience University (NMBU) to create a new futuristic blue/green city district. The old hospital grounds also have two high rise tower blocks that are being recycled and renovated as part of the project. Production of concrete has a substantial CO2 imprint. By utilizing the existing blocks we will make good use of these already built concrete structures.
NMBU are creating for this project, systems for converting waste into energy, pool-quality water, and fertilizer for urban agriculture. This will be for the entire area with up to 1000 residential units. Each home will have has its own balcony, for both urban agricultural and amenity purposes. The balcony can be closed as a winter garden, and has a large flower box with wires for climbing plants. Fertilizer will be made available from the biogas reactor (waste).
The new city district will have its own circular economy with greenhouses, renewable energy and heating.The project is planned as a high-tech ecosystem within a circular economy and urban agriculture in an area of approximately 80,000 m2.The project is partly made possible with funds from SiEUGreen,
The EU Research project on sustainability, urban agriculture and smart cities.
Oslofjord Convention Center
Prosjektdetaljer
Lokasjon
Tønsberg, Norway
Størrelse
130 000m²
Oppdragsgiver
OCC / BCC
År
2020
Prosjektbeskrivelse
Oslofjord Convention Center er med sine 130.000m² et av Nord Europas største kurs- og konferansesentra. I tillegg til møterom, konferansesaler og multifunksjonsrom i alle størrelser består komplekset også av hotell og utleieleiligheter med 9000 sengeplasser og en flerbrukshall (med bl.a. klatrevegg, ishockeybane og hallområder for allidrett).
Å utforme et prosjekt i denne skalaen med et så allsidig program er en kompleks øvelse. Målsettingen har vært å skape en spennende og dynamisk destinasjon med et helhetlig, samlende grep som er inkluderende for alle aktiviteter og deltakere.
Stikkord har vært dynamiske bygg, med en tydelig arkitektur, som «reiser» seg opp av jorden og strekker seg opp og frem. Mellom husene etableres gode, parkmessige uteområder som sammen med kommunikasjonsårer binder sammen komplekset i en organisering som en egen landsby.
The Home of China Eastern Airlines
Project details
Location
Hongqiao Airport, Shanghai, China
Size
245 000m²
Client
China Eastern Airlines
Built
2018
Project description
China Eastern Airlines is one of the world’s major airlines and wanted their new headquarters located at Hongqiao airport in Shanghai to reflect that. The new complex, including interior public areas and surrounding parklands, are designed by NIELSTORP+ architects while the engineering is done by ARUP and construction drawings by local architectural firm ECADI.
The complex totaling approximately 245.000m² has a varied program containing:
- Office workplace for 12.000 employees.
- Hotel with approx. 400 rooms.
- Operation centre for monitoring and preparation of the flights,
- Operation centre as a terminal for the crew, where they prepare for the flights.
- Training centre.
The square-shaped site is defined by the terminal pier and surrounding office buildings. The site is transformed into a green oasis suited for people by establishing a parkland, with clusters of trees as the outer boundary. Within this square-shaped boundary, we placed the China Eastern Airline village, a series of connected buildings with an amorphous and undulating outline.
An dynamic shaped park emerges as a result of the space between this square outer boundary and the undulating outline of the CEA village.
The CEA village consists of horse shoe shaped buildings organized around the central atrium, with “streets” and bridges between them. Just like an ordinary village with a central plaza, roads and lanes. The atriums constitute the hearth and the central «living rooms» of the company, where people meet and ideas made.
The atrium is split in two by the main road. The major internal communication routes circles around – and connects the two parts of this atrium – via bridges. The wings of the buildings spread out in the form of a star. This gives short and efficient communication routes.
Most villages have a monumental building placed in the midst of the plaza. The CEA village will have one tower in each of the two atriums that complements each other and holds the village together visually. The towers contain meeting centers. The north tower has a corporate management club on the top floors.
To bring light, air and sight-lines into the village the mass of the buildings slopes into the centre.
Zhuhai Port Landscape
Project details
Location
Artificial Island outside Macao, China
Size
100 000 m² Landscape
Client
ECADI/Zhuhai City Authorities
Built
2018
Project description
Zuhai Checkpoint of Hong Kong – Macao bridge design project. Year: 2018 Architect for the main building (Area 685 000 m²): ARCHPLUS. Concept Architect for the landscape related to the building: NIELSTORP+ architects.
The function of the Bridge & Artificial Island is to meet the demand of passengers and freight transport between Hong Kong, the Mainland (particularly the region of Pearl River West-Zhuhai) and Macao, to establish a new land transport link between the east and west banks of the Pearl River, and to enhance the economic and sustainable development of the three regions. The bridge is the longest sea-crossing bridge in the world.
Tjuvholmen
Project details
Location
Oslo, Norway
Size
83.000m²
Client
Tjuvholmen KS
Recognition
1. Prize invited arch. competition
Built
Masterplan Design 2005
Project description
When your’e designing buildings on reclaimed land in a harbour you aren’t restricted by the city’s street grid. When laying down the streets and plazas at Tjuvholmen the focus was on sunlight, views and the element of surprise. This new city district has been given maximum shoreline exposure to the Oslofjord with two kilometres of differentiated paths along the quays. The canal, the fjord surface at Filipstad and the beach zone by the park can be perceived as water spaces. A hierarchy of streets and pathways has been created, ranging from avenues to narrow alleys. The spaces created have been carefully matched in order not to be oversized or barren. The buildings have been given moderate heights, allowing the city’s natural hilly landscape to retain its dominant role.
Projects: F1 north: offices, restaurant, shops 15,000 m² 2009, F3: Residential, offices, shops, 19,300 m² 2009, F1 south: Residential, offices, restaurant, 9,200 m², 2010
Skorpa
Project details
Location
Skorpa, Kristiansund
Size
24.000m²
Recognition
1. prize architectural competition 2007
Built
Under development
Project description
Building type: Residential
Size: 24 000m²
Awards: 1. Prize arch. competition 2007
The island Skorpa is almost wholly undeveloped and its natural splendour is unmarred on the side facing the open sea. The building development delineates clearly between the virgin ocean side and the building zone on the inside, which faces the city of Kristiansund. The development will consist of clusters of houses, community “flotillas” in the unspoiled landscape. All technical encroachments are limited to each neighbourhood development in which the buildings are tightly grouped to shelter central courtyards of various designs. Residents need to drive right up to their front doors in a harsh climate like this. The houses are low-built and robust in character. The approach to the development would be made like a park drive that would give the general public better access to this charming island. A sports ground and a small commercial centre would be snugly fit between the knolls furthest out on the North East.
Kilen Brygge
Project details
Location
Sandefjord, Norway
Size
25 000m²
Client
Kilen Brygge AS
Built
2007
Project description
As time passes the project comprises a whole city district. Although it’s separated from the downtown area, it is absolutely a part of Sandefjord’s new appearance. The district at Kilgaten will develop around a city district plaza, Kilen Square, as its main attraction. Snug and open to sunlight, it is surrounded by a variety of buildings with a diversity of functions. The district will attain its substance once the square is built; it will become a place. Building 3, the relatively small edifice on the north, scales down the development in its encounter with square.
Building 4/5, with its large and clearly defined sloping roof surface, is placed solidly and strongly against building 7, the 11-storey high-rise, a slim vertical building with a relatively modest footprint, and marks the space of the square as the main element of the area. Plaza spaces, narrow alleys, water spaces and quayside strolls comprise a versatile course of public spaces and lines of communications.
The challenge in this sort of urban district development is always a matter of getting the dimensions of public spaces right in relation to the amount of people who are being invited into it. Oversized and barren surfaces, docks and quays that are too wide in this context are well-known problems. The design of large buildings is architecturally demanding on exposed property, facing the sea, with no terrain to support them. Naturally, buildings need to be relatively substantial on shore properties to justify capital expenditures. The costs of a foundation have to be spread among a minimum number of floors.
Compounding this problem, modern residents want to park their cars close to a lift and expect the lift to be close to their residence. The garage requires an extra storey of its own and, closed and inaccessible as it must be, this complicates retention of a pleasant milieu along the quay. Another challenge for the builder is the meticulous detail work considered necessary for a sculpturally designed, aesthetically pleasing building. The development of a waterfront property calls for special characteristics. The architect knows that contextually the building will often be surrounded by vessels of various sizes, and a relevant style must have a certain maritime affiliation. This isn’t a boat being built but it is a building on the water. One seeks a change in pace where the development reaches the shoreline and crawls up on land.
British Airways Headquarters
Project details
Location
Heathrow, London
Size
114 000m²
Client
British Airways
Recognition
1. Prize invited arch. competition 1989, British Construction Industry Award 1998, RIBA Best of British Award 1999, British Council for Offices Award 1999
Built
1998
Project description
To retain a human scale for a development intended to house 4000 staff, we have divided the office accommodation into a series of “houses”.
Designed to promote social interaction and informal meeting, the street 175 metres long, is the hub of the scheme.
To contrast with the buzz of the street, the office areas are designed to be calm, welcoming and informal within an ordered plan. Each of the office buildings is divided into two wings by a central lift lobby, which faces onto the street.
A strong link between the internal and external environment is characteristic of the development, with views out to the courtyard and the landscape beyond, from the street, office areas and the restaurant.
From the exterior, Waterside is viewed as a series of buildings in the landscape, linked by a transparent glass enclosure. Grass mounds which create an undulating visual screen around Waterside, the stepped roofline and projecting sharp stone clad fins to office wings all serve to break down the mass of the complex.
Aker Brygge
Project details
Location
Aker Brygge, Oslo
Size
170 000m²
Client
Aker Eiendom
Recognition
1st prize invited arch. competition. Oslo Council’s Fine Art Award 1990. DIFA Award 2006
Built
1989
Project description
The challenge was to build “urban qualities”, the atmosphere of a living city, into the place: to give it identity, intimacy, drama, monumentality, friendliness, contrasts, humour and the feeling of joy – to ensure the buildings talked with each other across the streets, narrow passages and public spaces.The contact surface with the waters of the fjord has been exploited and pulled deep inside the mass of buildings via narrow passages and streets that run down the quayside and provide energy and life to the pedestrian areas.
The four buildings are designed as city blocks and appear more like complex “building environments” than individual buildings. The “city blocks” provide a typical urban cross-section of functions: theatre and a basement cinema. Shops on street level and and offices on middle floors with apartments with lush roof gardens. The result is a neighbourhood where a kindergarden sits next to a night club, with activities for every age and every desire.The apartments are conceived as a complete residential complex covering the rooftops of the city, with sun and magnificent views, far from the noise of the busy streets below.