Øresundsparken is an Urban Planning Design Competition won by BIG. It was commissioned posteriorly for further development.
The initial Design was based on several Row Houses displayed along kinked lines settled on existing site conditions. These Row houses contained parallelepiped volumes on top as additional Housing units.
My involvement within this design was do develop those same upper volumes.
Within a design pre-set on existing conditions and rules, the upper volumes followed the same principle.
They were originated parametrically, by obtaining an maximum envelop based on Danish Laws, which define, according to an equation (H=Ax0,33 +3m), the maximum height of a building in relation to the proximity towards the neighbor buildings.
As such, a maximum volume for each row was obtained. From that maximum volume, the process was driven through the partial subtraction of the maximum volume, regulated with precision on the amount of area required by the Client.
These Typological variations obey both to the predefined Area Ratio and Maximum Volume (from the Maximized Plot Volume)
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SECTION TYPE (based on H=Ax0,33 +3m)
PARAMETRIC MODEL
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The Rule H=Ax0,33 +3m is here applied both on the upper limit (height) and lower limit, introducing a new parameter.
The row houses becomes fully optimized in this situation, taking advantage of maximum height and span (width), without jeopardizing the lower dwellings views nor light conditions.
This Design was approved by the town-hall as Definitive Urban Planning , not within conventional parameters defined bi-dimensionality, but as a maximum three-dimensional envelope to be followed for further housing developments.
Rhinoceros; Grasshopper
Due to the specificity of the amount of square meters required per row of dwellings, the parametric model was settled to feed back directly the area of the buildings on each row.
This allowed a direct adjustment on the overall volumes with a accurate area correspondence to the programmatic requirements.
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