Sjøkanten Park
From industrial site to nature-based neighborhood
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E.C. Forfang (on parental leave)
Lead Designer, Associate Partner, Architect
Location
Stavanger, Norway
Year
2017 — 2023
Client
Profier Eiendom
Role
Lead landscape architect
Partners & Collaborators
A-Lab (architects), Constro (constructor)
With our urban development project Sjøkanten Park in Stavanger, we transform Stavanger’s former steelworks into a new residential neighborhood. The district is centered around lush park spaces, public plazas, common courtyards, and varied blue-green social experiences.
With Sjøkanten Park we reconnect the city of Stavanger with the fjord, making the old quaysides and industrial wharfs accessible for all. Central to this is the creation of a public ‘fjord park’ where water and nature attractions will form the social spine of the neighborhood together with shared spaces and facilities such as community gardens, bicycle workshop, kayak sheds, and a community house.
Nature-based rainwater management is an integrated part of the landscape design and will contribute to creating diverse water experiences and a whole new sensuous layer to the old industrial site.
The construction of Sjøkanten Park commenced in October 2021.
We design places for life. All life.
Fundamentals
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Atmosphere
“Atmosphere is a thin film of enclosure around our world. Without our vaporous, water filled atmosphere, life on Earth – or indeed life anywhere – would not exist. But atmosphere is also what you sense…
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Sound
“Sound. The soundtrack of our lives often passes us by without us noticing. But I have begun noticing the poetry of the noises around me. The rhythm and the song of the poet. The calling…
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Sakuteiki
– The Book of Garden
Sakuteki – The Book of Garden is a manual, a textbook for Japanese gardeners in the 11th century. This introduction sounds like this: “In making the garden, you should first understand the overall principles. According…
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Mist
Mist is a phenomenon caused by small droplets of water suspended in air. Physically, it is an example of a dispersion. It is most commonly seen where warm, moist air meets sudden cooling, such as…
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Roots
“A tree consists of three parts: Its foliage, its trunk, and its roots. All three parts are important for the aesthetic feeling of nature. But of these three I find the roots most intriguing, most…
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Essay: The Bark Room
“Bark is both living and dead, growing and cracking, a shell, a protective layer and an integral part of the wood’s tissue. It’s the bark structure and the way it peels, which separates the different…
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White
“In the beginning was chaos. While the universe began to expand after Big Bang it also decreased in temperature. It became more and more ordered. With that order, the Universe changed its background colour toward…
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