Site-specific approaches in contemporary European harbour transformation Lisa Diedrich Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Arch. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU Alnarp PhD Fellow, Copenhagen University Editor-in-Chief Landscape Architecture Europe, ‚scape the international magazine for landscape architecture and urbanism Site-specific approaches in contemporary European harbour transformation Lisa Diedrich Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Arch., Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU Alnarp PhD Fellow, Copenhagen University Editor-in-Chief Landscape Architecture Europe, ‚scape the international magazine for landscape architecture and urbanism Photo: Arnauld Dubois Fresney/ SAMOA Photo: Vincent Jacques/ SAMOA
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Site-specific approaches in contemporary European harbour
transformation
Lisa Diedrich Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Arch. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU Alnarp
PhD Fellow, Copenhagen University
Editor-in-Chief Landscape Architecture Europe, ‚scape the international magazine for landscape architecture and urbanism
Site-specific approaches
in contemporary European harbour transformation
Lisa Diedrich Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Arch., Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU Alnarp
PhD Fellow, Copenhagen University
Editor-in-Chief Landscape Architecture Europe, ‚scape the international magazine for landscape architecture and urbanism
Photo: Arnauld Dubois Fresney/ SAMOA
Photo: Vincent Jacques/ SAMOA
Global problem, global answer
Harbour transformation
Harbour transformation
Global problem…
Ashes? Gold?
Local particularities?
Global answer:
From ashes to gold!
What constitutes a site in design? (Burns/Kahn 2005)
Site is more than the area of topical intervention
What constitutes a site in design? (Burns/Kahn 2005)
Site is more than the area of topical intervention
Area of control e.g. proper harbour transformation area
What constitutes a site in design? (Burns/Kahn 2005)
Site is more than the area of topical intervention
Area of control e.g. proper harbour transformation area
Area of influence e.g. catchment, coast, water table, climatic zone
What constitutes a site in design? (Burns/Kahn 2005)
Site is more than the area of topical intervention
Area of control e.g. proper harbour transformation area
Area of influence e.g. catchment, coast, water table, climatic zone
Area of effect e.g. district, city, metropolitan region
What constitutes a site in design? (Burns/Kahn 2005)
Site is more than the area of topical intervention
Area of control e.g. proper harbour transformation area
Area of influence e.g. catchment, coast, water table, climatic zone
Area of effect e.g. district, city, metropolitan region
Site is a dynamic relational construct
Site is transscalar
What is site specificity? (Kwon 2002)
Site specificity was first coined in the arts in the 1960s and 70s
Today site-specificity needs redefinition
Thinking together
- the nostalgic desire of a retrieval of rooted, place-bound identities
- the anti-nostalgic embrace of a nomadic fluidity of subjectivity, identity
and spatiality
Relying on a pragmatic, constructivist idea of site being construed and
constructed by the artist from relational sensibility
Parameters for evaluating site-specificity
Physical structures e.g. geological, hydrological, urban…
materials e.g. gravel, rails, streets, buildings…
Parameters for evaluating site-specificity
Physical structures e.g. geological, hydrological, urban…
materials e.g. gravel, rails, streets, buildings…
Flux processes e.g. dynamics of natural systems
practices e.g. human uses and habits
Parameters for evaluating site-specificity
Physical structures e.g. geological, hydrological, urban…
materials e.g. gravel, rails, streets, buildings…
Immaterial atmospheres i.e. temporal phenomena, experiences
memories i.e. collective and personal
Flux processes i.e. dynamics of natural systems
practices i.e. human usages
Design as transformation (Braae 2012)
Starting projects from a close observation of all the existing elements
found on site in order to transform rather than to design anew.
Transformation is a process in the course of which something is
changed from one state into another, relating the former something with
the new something else while knowing that neither before nor after is
static.
Urban planning practice:
defining a programme which is applied to a site (Koolhaas)
Landscape architectural approach:
developing a programme from site (Marot, Meyer)
Antwerp
Nantes
Alexandre Chemetoff, Ile de Nantes, Nantes
330 ha
Photo: courtesy Atelier de l‘Ile
PROAP, Scheldt Quays, Antwerp
23 000 m2
Photo: courtesy Proap
Nantes Ile de Nantes
Atelier de l’Ile de Nantes (Alexandre Chemetoff), Paris/Nantes