MADE IN SANDNES
V. REFERANCE STUDIES
*The municipality of Sandnes in Norway.
REFERANCE STUDIES I Sandnes
SIZE & DENSITY
Sandnes Municipality - 304 km² - 67 814 inhabitants - 223 inhabitants/km²
Tromsø urban settlement - 40 km² - 56 466 inhabitants - 1 411 inhabitants/km²
Stavanger Municipality - 71,4 km² - 127 506 inhabitants - 1 786 inhabitants/km²
Copenhagen Municipality - 74,4 km² - 549 050 inhabitants - 7 379 inhabitants/km²
Paris Municipality - 105 km² - 2 211 297 inhabitants - 21 060 inhabitants/km²
Manhattan - 59 km² - 1 585 873 inhabitants - 26 879 inhabitants/km²
“The colorstreet”, Stavanger, Norway
“Polaria”activity center Tromsø, Norway
“Elmegade” Nørrebro Copenhagen, Denmark
the wide avenues, Paris, France
Greenwich village New York, USA
CARS PER HOUSEHOLD
69% 18%
STAVANGER
78% 35%
SANDNES
Both in Sandnes and Stavanger, around 70 % of the households has a car. However in Sandnes half of these households has two cars or more.
MAIN TRAFFIC
Sandnes was initially a crossroad between Stavanger and Bryne. And still most of the traffic goes through Sandnes. Both train and cars.
PROJECTED POPULATION
130 000 120 000 110 000 100 000 90 000 80 000 70 000 60 000 50 000 40 000 30 000 20 000 10 000 1990
1995
2000
2012
2020
2030
2040
Sandnes is Norways fastest growing city. And it is predicted to continue to grow rapidly for the next 30 years. The projected population for Sandnes in 2020 is around 95 000 people, which predicts a growth of 28 000 in just the next 8 years.
WORKPLACES
In Sandnes most of the workplaces are outside of the city centre. Forus, the bigg office park between Sandnes and Stavanger provides for over half of the regions workplaces. While the city centre of Sandnes only represent around 20%.
*The site of V책gen, in the city of Sandnes, Norway.
REFERANCE STUDIES II V책gen
DEVELOPEMENT SITES
Vågen, Sandnes, Norway - 81 000 m²
Barcode, Oslo, Norway - 52 000 m²
Borneo sporenburg, Amsterdam, Nederland - 309 500m²
Carlsberg, Copenhagen, Denmark - 420 000m²
Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, Finland - 1 000 000 m²
Ørestaden, Copenhagen, Denmark - 3 100 000 m²
Ile De Nantes, Nates, France - 3 370 000 m²
Barcode, Oslo, Norway
Carlsberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Borneo -sporenburg, Amsterdam, Nederland
Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, Finland
Ørestaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ile de Nantes, Nantes, France
RECREATIONAL SITES
Vågen, Sandnes, Norway - 81 000 m²
The opera roof, Oslo, Norway - 2o ooo m²
Superkilen, Copenhagen, Denmark - 33 000 m²
Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark - 82 700 m²
Parc du Champ de Mars, Paris, France - 313 100 km²
Vigelandsparken, Oslo, Norway - 320 000 m²
The Opera roof, Oslo, Norway
Superkilen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark
Parc De Champs Du Mars, Paris, France
Vigelandspark, Oslo, Norway
*The site of V책gen, in the city of Sandnes, Norway.
REFERANCE STUDIES III Elements of the site
The Silo, Sandnes, Norway
THE SILO
Sandnes has a history where industry was the vital part of the city. And there are traces of this industry in the very center at the city. One of these traces is a 50 meter high silo. This silo was buildt without permission, and the building is not very popular in Sandnes. However, the silo is a landmark, not just representing the history of the city, but it is also a physical landmark, as a way to orient youself in the city, as a recognisable volume. The silo as a important element of our site, and could be the key to the identity of the new developed area, at the same time as it could be an important aspect of connecting the new developement to the rest of the city, and its history.
NL Architects Climbing wall + Sport & Culture center Zeeburg, Nederland
NL Architects Climbing wall + Sport & Culture center Zeeburg, Nederland
MDRDV Apartments Copenhagen, Denmark
C.F.Møller Architects+Christian Carlsen apartments Copenhagen, Denmark
HRTB AS Arkitekter Student housing Oslo, Norway
Dorthe MAdrup Aps Arkitekter Studenthousing+Youth Center JĂŚgersberg, Denmark
The west side of Sandnes; the grid structure.
The east side of Sandnes; the organic structures.
THE TWO SIDES OF THE CITY
The city center of Sandnes is divided in two urban structures. On the west side of the fjord the city follows a more strict gridplan, while on the east side the city follows a more organic organisation, following the shapes of the landscape. Our site, beeing a landfill inbetween, could with our site connect these two structures.
Torgallmenningen, Bergen, Norway
THE NEW ALMENNING
In Sandnes there are plenty of horisontal connectors, but the cross connectors are missing. In Norwegian urban planning traditions the Almenning, was a very common and important space, connecting the city with both the sea and the mounitains. In Sandnes there is a need for this cross connector of the two sides of the city.
quatro canti, Palermo, Sicily
Piazza Pretoria, Palermo, Sicily
THE PLAZA
The city of Sandnes should have also have a direct connector with the sea and the valley. At the crossing of these two new connectors both the sea, the valley and the two sides of the city is connected. As in the roman urban planning, this cross is a important point in the city; it is the heart of the city. Here we would like to introduce another new element two the city of Sandnes; the plaza.