Munch Area Masterplan
Awards
-XI BEAU 2011 (Urbanism): Mention

The competition for the Munch Area in the Bjorvika Area entails the opportunity to develop a complete city fragment in an enclave destined to become essential for Oslo’s life and image in the near future. The recently finished Opera house and BarCode complex, the ongoing Library and Munch Museum and the planned housing, offices and commercial space will end up extending the city centre and opening it out to the sea, thus ending up with the historical rejection from many coastal cities to their coastline. This urban project strives to avoid a model based on binding isolated phenomena within a certain area, enabling a dynamic and fruitful conversation with the surroundings, a proposal that selects and integrates the different scales and densities, the occupational schemes, the built mass and the free space between the buildings. Thus, the first equation of our proposal comprises a sequence of public, connected and strongly characterized spaces, whose size enables the dialogue with the local, architectural entities which they garnish, integrating them in the general system.
Munch Area Masterplan
Awards
-XI BEAU 2011 (Urbanism): Mention
The competition for the Munch Area in the Bjorvika Area entails the opportunity to develop a complete city fragment in an enclave destined to become essential for Oslo’s life and image in the near future. The recently finished Opera house and BarCode complex, the ongoing Library and Munch Museum and the planned housing, offices and commercial space will end up extending the city centre and opening it out to the sea, thus ending up with the historical rejection from many coastal cities to their coastline. This urban project strives to avoid a model based on binding isolated phenomena within a certain area, enabling a dynamic and fruitful conversation with the surroundings, a proposal that selects and integrates the different scales and densities, the occupational schemes, the built mass and the free space between the buildings. Thus, the first equation of our proposal comprises a sequence of public, connected and strongly characterized spaces, whose size enables the dialogue with the local, architectural entities which they garnish, integrating them in the general system.