Project:
Circularity apparatus

About

• Project Description

  Grensen 2030 is a welcoming and vibrant place in Trondheim: it carefully preserves the existing built and green structures by giving them the new meanings and adapting to face the challenges of the future, responsibly integrates the new structures designed to foster biodiversity and human interaction, prioritizing sustainability, upcycling and circularity. Grensen 2030 places the synergy and continuous exchange between the existing and new at the focal point for its design. By taking this approach as a starting point, the project becomes a precedent for how the integration of the historical environment with the contemporary technologies can establish a long-term resilient framework dealing with the climate challenges and at the same time creating a new identity and a strong community: the circularity apparatus.

• Jury Remarks

  This project stands out among all the proposals because it is a spatial strategy on how to transform Grensen into the living lab the brief demands, rather than being a proposal and a design for one or more set buildings.

  This is the future, where buildings are shaped by what is at hand through reuse, either direct or through up-cycling. So the suggested buildings in the proposal are to be seen more as ‘placeholders’ or symbols than actual architectural designs.

  The neighbourhood in Grensen becomes a true laboratory for finding new, experimental and sustainable solutions, on all scales. It could be for the whole building, but also for testing materials or specific solutions within a building

  The proposal builds on a strong respect for the existing, but also an open-minded wish to look at the existing with fresh eyes – and succeeds in doing both by keeping with the logic of the lay-out of the city-spaces and the scale of the existing buildings, but not being afraid to be very bold when it comes to how new buildings might look.

• Team

  Eugenia Bevz’s journey began at the architecture school in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2002. After earning a master's degree and teaching for a few years, she won a scholarship to further her education in urban studies at the ETH school of architecture in Zurich.

  Currently, she operates her own practice in Stockholm, bringing with her architectural expertise acquired from experiences in New York and at OMA in Rotterdam.

  

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