Klaksvík City Centre
IN THE MIST OF KLAKSVIK
Our ambition is to turn the centre of Klaksvik into a new focal and rallying point in town. Situated close by sky and sea, the area comes forth as a 'vague district' with potentials as a platform for meeting.
The city is to fuse together across the water and to grow together with the landscape in order to create new connections and spatialities – discoveries, experiences and adventures. We whish to enhance and intensify the green areas of the urban space and to create a green connection between the two seas - North and South.
The project consists of an archipelago, which becomes the new urbanscape and centre of Klaksvik. The dense and mysterious mist and the whirlwind's circling around a centre is the point of departure for the project, both as motif and as sense of atmosphere. As if emanating from the mist, the new shape of the city suddenly occurs and creates a concentration and density around a centre - the heart of the city. The shape of the city creates the before mentioned green connection between the two seas North and South The islands are situated in and around the surface of the sea. They protrude from the sea and tower protectively around the centre of the city. Everything happens in and around the surface and creates a contrast to the surrounding mountains.
The islands vary in sizes and come forth as flakes. They are buildings, cadastres and landscapes at the same time. Our intention is to bring nature into the new centre and thereby create a new urbanscape that unites the city. The formations create places and niches, which provide shelter and cover from the wind.
