A CITY WITHIN A PARK
Aviapolis Urban Blocks
Vantaa,Finland
2017
Vantaa,Finland
2017
The Helsinki-Vantaa airport is an important center of the city's generating a massive industrial force which is sure to have a strong impact over time on the current situation in Aviapolis and Vantaa in general, Aviapolis currently is a business and industrial area and to adapt to the future inevitable changes there should be a determinant and clear order allowing the region to expand and change at the same time creating an environment that is suitable for the community to live an equal life not only ordered by the industrial force but also by the natural force
The design aims to make a plan for the competition site that may expand affecting the surrounding urban blocks, it aims to create a place for community to live, work and enjoy life as it is ordered by a green park that would reshape the regions huge urban blocks to smaller ones creating pathways that allows people to walk through the site and region without the need of cars, this pathways would connect the different elements of the project together
The design aims to make a plan for the competition site that may expand affecting the surrounding urban blocks, it aims to create a place for community to live, work and enjoy life as it is ordered by a green park that would reshape the regions huge urban blocks to smaller ones creating pathways that allows people to walk through the site and region without the need of cars, this pathways would connect the different elements of the project together
The Project consists of four main elements, the park, the residential buildings, the workplaces and the Atomi building, The design approach is based on making the park the most dominant element in the project in the same time making Atomi building the main center of the site which can be accessible by everyone via the park pathways as it creates the communal identity of the area, The workplaces is placed in a lower level from the park and it is organized by a liner promenade that is 20 meter wide, this promenade is facing the south direction allowing the sun light to reach the workplaces also a series of courtyards is to be existed in the lower level to provide more sunlight and natural ventilation, the residential buildings to be organized around this courtyards and its height is varied based on the sunlight direction, and it consists of series of gardens in every level providing places for community to socialize it also provide a natural ventilation and a tiny farms for the residents, all the project elements are connected via pedestrians and bikes pathways which converts the huge urban block to smaller pedestrian blocks All the elements were designed thoughtfuly to the existing stormwater streams which exist in the site to controll the stormeater infiltration, another streams are proposed to be added in the site
The concept of the formation of the residential buildings is to create communal spaces for community in each level that allows them to interact and socialize outside the boundaries of the private dwellings this spaces is shared terraces generated by the vertical and horizontal shifting of the residential
