AHO Arctic City - Urban Design Studio 2017

New connection and a point of view for Langfjorden

New cottages, walking paths and access to the caves. More interventions will be presented tomorrow in Kirkenes.

Hello Kirkenes!
We are pleased to present the final studio work from the AHO Master Urban Design studio at the Kirkenes Bibliotek opening on Wednesday at 16:00. Please come down and look at 8 different projects looking at a variety of sites around town where students exhibit alternative future proposals. Two students from the class will be available to answer any questions you might have.

The project develops Kirkenes by creating new active urban spaces in different parts of the city.

- By doing different interventions in different parts of the city the project aims to make more of the city active. This will in turn make the city-center of Kirkenes more attractive to use and visit.
- The scale/complexity of each intervention will be different allowing varied use and varied users, from locals to tourists.
- The interventions will cater to different people by offering them activities that suits their interests and needs

Shown is two examples. The old molo and the viewpoint on Prestfjellet. The project will develop the six sites shown in the situation plan marked in red in different ways.

This project looks at the remnants of the war and other underground infrastructure in Kirkenes. How these can be re-used and appropriated to become useful for local citizens and tourists? Project by Kristine Slettum Skarphol

Prosjektet ser på gamle ruiner fra andre verdenskrig, og annen undergrunnsinfrastruktur i Kirkenes. Den ser også på hvordan disse kan gjenbrukes, bevilges og nyttiggjøres for lokale innbyggere og turister. Prosjekt av Kristine Slettum Skarphol.

REVEAL THE INTERTWINED

The project makes room for all the users at three major transportation nodes. It uses this opportunity to create a public space organized for mobility and to reveal new kind of alternative mobility: train, bicycle, spark and even more!

Caroline

Culture of Assembly – is a project that is proposing to reveal Kirkenes’ Mine History by applying a new layer on the former production chain! The new layer is recreating and activating the big infrastructures and closed down mine by reinserting identity!

Connecting and merging the original places of the mining process together by adding a Sauna path is bringing people into the industry area and keeps the mining network alive.
Laura

INDUSTRIAL SPACE FROM A BIRD PERSPECTIVE

Reconnecting Prestoya back to the city, considering that the connecting land will then change from a bird perspective. I will try to create small interventions for birds and humans, which will highlight the artificial land and change it in a good place for everybody. I will use the specificity of Prestoya, a bird watcher place, to change the artificial land. My main problematic is how all this birds with different needs can live together on this piece of land, and how human can experience bird life. I use existing building and vegetation to create new ones, and from those a new landscape and activities appear. By living on the artificial land, birds are involved in the ecosystem and transform the site in a good place, with lot of nature, respecting the environment.

Pia

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
– “Eleanor Rigby.” The Beatles

In our latest one-week workshop we created fictional characters for Kirkenes.

I thought a lot about lonely people in Kirkenes. “Loneliness can affect anyone of us, of all ages and in all situations in life. Lonely people often feel that they are invisible. Nobody really notices them” For me it is important to help them so I wanted to design something that says “It’s getting better all the time”

One of my characters is a single man who just moved to Kirkenes, another is a girl that is bullied in her school, and another is an older woman living alone. One that I fell in love with is Reidar. He lives alone, is divorced, and is unemployed. From all the people I created he seemed the loneliest guy of all. He is a solitary person – he doesn’t want to spend too much time with other people, but would like to do some things together. I asked myself where he could be alone together with someone.

For him I came up with the concept of a public fishing place. In the Fisherman’s Nest one can transform the structure and make an individual personal space for fishing OR a place for several people. At the moment the site I selected is slambanken, which is currently a wasteland. In my concept I will try to find out if there is possibility to use it for something different.

The Fisherman’s Nest isn’t to be used only by fishermen, but will be designed for all people in Kirkenes. Do you have you any thoughts about this project? What kind of places could help lonely people? Where do they all belong?

-Heini Hiukka

Students created maps of what they observed in Kirkenes. These findings are used to influence their projects. Please feel free to comment with constructive feedback for students to help improve their projects.

Studentene opprettet kart over hva de har observert i Kirkenes. Disse funnene er brukt til å påvirke deres prosjekter. Kom gjerne med konstruktiv tilbakemelding, hvilket studentene kan benytte til å forbedre sine prosjekter.

At the Edge

Students are in Kirkenes, Norway and exploring! Does anyone have a spare spark or two we can borrow to help us get around quicker?

Studentene er her og utforsker byen. Er noen villig til å låne ut en spark eller to sånn at de kan komme seg rundt omkring raskere?

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This studio focuses on a wide range of issues and aims to capture the site-specific complexity of Arctic cities.

Are you a resident of Kirkenes or elsewhere in East Finnmark? Or Nikel or elsewhere on the Kola peninsula? We would like to ask you - what makes your city special?

We are three lecturers from Norway, Denmark and Canada, and eight students from Norway (2), Finland, Russia, France (2), Germany and the Netherlands.

We will be in Kirkenes February 2-8th, Nikel on February 9th, and Murmansk February 10th-11th.

Student studio projects will be published in a book to be given to city libraries and municipalities, and we will exhibit the work locally at the end of the term.

Please follow or like us for more details as the studio progresses!

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Prosjektet fokuserer på et bredt spekter av tema, og har som mål å forstå den stedsspesifikke kompleksiteten i arktiske byer.

Er du bosatt i Kirkenes eller andre steder i Øst-Finnmark? Eller Nikel eller andre steder på Kolahalvøya? Vi vil gjerne spørre deg – hva gjør byen din spesiell?

Vi er tre lærere fra Norge, Danmark og Canada, og åtte studenter fra Norge (2), Finland, Russland, Frankrike (2), Tyskland og Nederland.

Vi vil være i Kirkenes 2. - 8. februar, i Nikel 9. februar, og i Murmansk 10. - 11. februar.

Studentprosjekter vil bli publisert i en bok som skal gis til byens bibliotek og kommuner, og vi vil presentere arbeidet lokalt ved slutten av semesteret.

Følg eller lik oss på Facebook for mer informasjon etterhvert som prosjekter utvikler seg!

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Наша проектная студия направлена на изучение широкого спектра проблем и задач специфических условий городов Арктики. Если ты являешься жителем Киркенеса, Восточного Финнмарка, города Никель или Кольского полуострова, мы бы очень хотели спросить Вас, что же делает Ваш город особенным для жизни? Наша проектная группа состоит из трех преподавателей из Норвегии, Дании и Канады, а так же восьми студентов из Норвегии(2), Финляндии, России, Франции(2), Германии и Голландии. Наше путешествие состоится в феврале со 2-го по 8-е, мы будем проезжать город Никель 9-го февраля, а так же Мурманск с 10-го по 11-е февраля. Все финальные проекты студентов нашей студии будут представлены на выставке, а также опубликованы в книге и переданы в городские библиотеки города. Читайте о том, как прогрессирует наша команда и ставьте лайк!