MASS Lab

Nordic Built Cities Challenge Competition

Mass Lab

5. april 2016

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MASS Lab has been named one of the four finalists in the Nordic Built Cities Challenge Competition in the Faroe Islands, for the construction of a masterplan in an area of over 45,000 square meters.

Among the finalists are Hyde Architects (UK), Cuartoymitad Architecture & Landscape (Spain) and White Architects (Sweden).

Urban Concept

The competition objectives are the construction of a residential neighborhood in a steep terrain located on the east hill of Runavík and with views over the fjord.

Given the extent of the land and the complex construction requirements, Mass Lab designed a spatial organization that values the public space and reflects the social ambition of the project.

Site Plan

Site Section

Axonometric

This concept - EVERY PATIO IS FRAMED BY 4 HOUSES AND EVERY MODULE IS SURROUNDED BY 4 GARDENS – is the departure point for our contemporary proposal for the vertical challenge.

We are interested in having a dense and porous urbanization where the common areas become a continuous urban landscape with playgrounds, gardens and urban farms.