The dense city is in fashion. The compact streetscape found in many medieval European city centers is also where you find a city's history and identity. The dense, its' changing typologies and narrow streets always surprises its' users. It gives its users an incitement to wander its' streets why the dense city often also is a safe and healthy city.
It hasn't always been this way. In older times, the dense city was the dark and dirty city. This type of city gave birth to a whole generation of architects who saw light, air and lots of space as the highest ideal. Though the sanitary conditions today are quite different it is still those dogma - the dogma of modernism - which reigns. These rules can only give birth to one type of city: The sprawling city; The city of the car.
This is the current situation in Ørestad. Along the lush greenery, a number of iconic buildings are spread out so far from each other, they can't define the space between them. This is what we want to rebel against. We want to invent a new type of city: A modern dense city.
This project followed an initial site analysis resulting in a temporary installation. This master plan was also the site for my diploma project: A resident hall and combined library.
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