RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX | Stavanger, Norway | International Competition

RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX | Stavanger, Norway | International Competition | 1st Prize

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RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX | Stavanger, Norway | International Competition | 1st Prize

stavanger & the sea
A traditional saying has marked Stavanger’s history: “Looking beyond the horizon”. The sea as the place to project dreams, trips and life. Fishing, the canning industry and oil have defined both its several growth phases and urban morphology.

eco-culture
Relying on culture and laziness; culture seen as learning from what others have already learnt; laziness seen as advancing from what culture has already set.
Climatic consciousness turns to be necessary at this latitude. The adopted strategy comes from certain intuitive thought patterns not directly related with architectural knowledge but, in this case, animal. Penguins will be the main characters of this brief story: their knowledge about how to gather on the ground floor to minimize heat loss and how to get distance enough to avoid casting shadows on each other. Towers, thus, maximize their solar exposure.

indetermination
Due to its weather, Stavanger uses its extra-size local housing typology to provide indoor places for socializing. As any social event never happens by chance, a public net of non-programmed equipped indoor places and open to the invention is suggested.

3. urbanism of systems
Lervig is the result of its industry and harbour condition. We understand its planning not from patterns that are alien to its particularity but from systems open to the uncertainty. An occupation system and not a final result.
Three canning typologies occupy the new Lervig: a) square cans (sardines)_ housing and mixed uses as penguin colonies b) round cans (tuna)_facilities c) oval cans (mackerel)_ green spaces. The gaps between cans provide place for singular pieces like car parking, public buildings, bus stops…