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Embankment design project for "Park Line" architectural competition.

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Text description provided by the architects. Copenhagen's harbour is in the midst of a transformation from an industrial port and traffic junction to being the cultural and social centre of the city. The Harbour Bath has been instrumental in this evolution. It extends the adjacent park over the water by incorporating the practical needs and demands for accessibility, safety and programmatic flexibility. Rather than imitating the traditional Danish indoor swimming bath, the Harbour Bath offers an urban harbour landscape with dry-docks, piers, boat ramps, cliffs, playgrounds and pontoons. As a terraced landscape, the Harbour Bath completes the transition from land to water, making it possible for the citizens of Copenhagen to go for a swim in the middle of the city.

THE SWIMMING BATH Vs. THE BEACH

People go to the Harbour Bath in the way that people go to the beach rather than the indoor swimming baths. Not necessarily to exercise, but primarily to socialize, play and enjoy the sun. This means that the water should not only be able to accommodate more interactive and playful activities than the focused (and perhaps lonesome) swimming back-and-forth, the land should also be geared towards a more accommodating and generous environment.

LAND Vs. WATER

With an indoor swimming bath you have some land and have to design the pools. With the harbour, we have some water and have to design the land; a swimming bath in reverse. Since land is a factor we have influence on as architects, it is in the interface between the two that we can create desirable conditions. In a way, reinterpreting the water that is there by adding land.

CAPACITY Vs. SAFETY

The Harbour Bath is free of charge, but for security reasons the lifeguards have to be able to control the amount of visitors. With the given water area, an equivalent swimming bath would be able to accommodate up to 600 people. The previous harbour bath allowed for only half of that amount. By increasing the land areas, but maintaining the water area within the security limit, we can extend the capacity to 600 by allowing people to chill in the sun while resting from the aquatic activities.

ICON

The Harbour Bath will - with its location in the centre of the harbour - be a symbol of the presence of leisure and aquatic culture in the heart of the city. Visible from 'the main land' and the nearby Langebro ("The Long Bridge"), it should exploit the possibility for being an icon of new possibilities that the reclaimed harbour offers to contemporary urban life.

LANDSCAPE Vs. HARBOURSCAPE

When going to the beach or on holidays, it is usually to seek out exotic landscapes: the wide, open beach, the intimate lagoon, the rocky shore with cliffs and islands to jump from, the calm water or the big waves, the sand in the surf where the water is shallow and sand castles can be built. Rather than imitating the indoor swimming bath, the Harbour Bath offers an urban harbour landscape with dry-docks, cranes, piers, boat ramps, buoys, playgrounds and pontoons.

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Completed in 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Images by Casper Dalhoff, Esben Bruun, Hanne Fuglbjerg. Copenhagen's harbour is in the midst of a transformation from an industrial port and traffic junction to being the cultural and social centre of the...

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Text description provided by the architects. In mid 2009 Turenscape was commissioned to design a wetland park of 34.2 hectares right in the middle of this new town, which is listed as a protected regional wetland. The site is surrounded on four sides by roads and dense development. As such, water sources into this former wetland were being cut, and the wetland was under the threat. Turenscape's strategy was to transform the dying wetland into a 'green sponge' - an urban stormwater park, which will not only rescue the disappearing wetland, but will also provide multiple ecosystems services for the new urban community. The challenges are obvious: How can a disappearing wetland be preserved in the middle of the city when its ecological and biological processes have been cut off by the urban context? How can such an urban wetland ecosystem be designed to provide multiple ecosystems for the city? And what is the economic way to deal with such a big landscape? The solution was to transform the wetland into a multi-functional stormwater park that will collect, filtrate, store stormwater and infiltrate to the aquifer, whilst being productive and life supporting, providing new recreational and aesthetic experiences for the city.

The design strategies are multifaceted and multilayered.
1.Leave the nature core alone: The central part of the existing wetland is untouched and left alone for the natural process to domain for evolution and transforming.

2.Cut-and-fill strategy to create an outer ring. The next strategy was to create a necklace of ponds-and-mounds surrounding the former wetland using simple cut-and-fill technique. This pond-and-mound peripheral ring surrounding creates a stormwater filtrating and cleansing buffer zone for the core wetland, and a welcoming landscape filter between nature and city. Stormwater from the newly built urban area is collected into a pipe around the circumference of the wetland, and then released evenly into the wetland after being filtrated and deposited through the ponds. Native wetland grasses and meadows are grown in the ponds of various depths and the natural evolution process is initiated. Groves of native silver birch trees (Betula) are grown on the mounds of various heights that create a dense forest setting.

3.The path and platforms: On the ground level, following the cut-and-fill water filtration land form, a network of paths are built into the pond-and-mound ring allowing visitors to have a walk- through- forest experience. Seats are put into the ponds to allow people to have close contact with nature.

4.The upper layer above the natural landscape: A skywalk links scattered mounds allowing surrounding residents to have an above-the-wetland and in-the canopy experience. Platforms, pavilions and viewing towers are set on the mounds and are connected by the skywalk to allow visitors to have distant views and observe the nature in the center. Through the transformation of this dying wetland, stormwater that frequently causes flooding has now become a positive environmental amenity in the city. The Stormwater Park now has been listed as a national urban wetland park. This project demonstrates an ecosystem services oriented methodology to urban park design, and is a showcase for this water urbanism approach.

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Qunli Stormwater Wetland Park / Turenscape

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18 Text description provided by the architects. In mid 2009 Turenscape was commissioned to design a wetland park of 34.2 hectares right in the middle of this new town, which is listed as a protected regional wetland. The site is surrounded on four sides by roads and dense development.

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Les Hôtels d'En Haut, Le Val Thorens, Le Fitz Roy, Hôtel Des Trois Vallées, Alpaga, Les Roches Rouges.

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kolory/faktury w makietach (może u nas raczej jeden kolor)

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hotel les roches rouges

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niekoniecznie kółka, ale duże decki

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hatche, kropki, na kolorkach

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- maraton/triathlon
- bieg kierski
- festiwal