Project:
Co-Krøgenes

About

• Project Description

  QP810 - CO_KRØGENES

  Community is care. Since the beginning of time, people have come together, lived together, and taken care of themselves and their community. This is how our cities and societies came into being. In today‘s fast-paced world, these community ties are often diminishing and people are becoming more and more lonely, despite growing cities. The concept of co-krøgenes sees the solution in an approach that focuses on the community, the immediate lived environment and all those involved in it. Community is care! In contrast to the classic profit-oriented or simply housing-focused approach, the concept of co-krøgenes stands for a holistic approach. A caring community focuses on the needs of the residents, the environment and the future.

• Jury Remarks

  Co-Krøgenes receives a shared position as a runner-up due to its excellence as a realistic and sustainable strategy for transforming the big box typologies in Krøgenes. The project succeeds in showing a strategy for maintaining and repurposing a maximum number of existing retail buildings, preserving them as they are, and developing a vibrant mixed-use and car-free urban environment around them. Co-Krøgenes takes the parking issues seriously and demonstrates how the commercial life of the area can be sustained during the transition from car-based big box shopping into a credible mixed-use cluster centered around a successful 10-minute city concept. Furthermore, Co-Krøgenes has integrated a well-developed intermodal structure into the site. This enables Krøgenes to become a well-connected district center with a walkable interior and robust public transport connections while allowing its retail businesses to serve the car-based suburban neighborhoods around it. There is a challenge of spatial quality in the juxtaposition of housing and existing big scale buildings. They often collide with steep topographic differences, which adds to the level of difficulty in further development.

• Team

  Author:

  Marc Rieser (DE)
  

  caoscaos.eu

  instagram.com/caoscaos.eu

  caos caos is a young studio that develops solutions for a livable and sustainable future through its holistic approach. our planning should not be understood as a rigid or finished product, but rather as a resilient and flexible impulse that can respond individually to changing needs of people, climate and the environment. our designs create a structure that enables communities to develop naturally, dynamically and vibrantly within it. all these diverse impacts and changes give rise to an organically grown chaos. we embrace this chaos as an ecosystem that needs to be understood.

  caos caos is very delighted to been awarded for our proposal 'Co-Krøgenes' in the Europan 17 competition and we hope that it will serve as the foundation for further successful cooperation with the city of Arendal and the private owners. The awarded design stands for a flexible and resilient structure, which is exactly what we now want to further develop together with all parties involved and thus co-design the future of Krøgenes

  

  
  
  

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