CHRONIC ECOLOGIES
This is an overview of a landscape framework. This is a result of larger scale planning. And representing the end of the middle stage of the lifecycle of an existing logistic park.
We used the natural presence of the exiting vegetation in this geologically important area to analysis and understand the arbitrary development through the years. It is proven that the underground settings and what’s happening on the surface has a disconnection.
The existing logistical area also uses no logical development. As for the existing situation this is a glacial delta deposit that has a national importance for extracting its resources “Gravel” on the Norway’s largest ground water reservoir. This whole process of the extraction dramatically changed the landscape. The corridors made of the cattle lake system and the terrain supporting it are disconnected.
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We used different digital analysis application, switching back and forth to realize the pattern on the ground, based on that we developed this program, or the framework, for one of the most important logistical areas in Oslo, the Gardermoen Logistical Park.
We came up with our radical yet practical pattern solution for this site, as inversion of the ecologies that hidden under the ground, remaking it using the vegetation.
The introduction of new woods is based on the analysis of the nature of the terrain, The zig-zag nature of the contours is showing, spanning horizontally from east to west direction. But at a closer look, these contours have an abstract rhythm made of series of long and short lines, also a topological and spatial nature of terraces and niches. The diversity of these rhythms is played in the terrain then converted to vertical vegetation structures and valleys to flow water.
The vast area is ruled by three different types of forests, that evolves through the time, because in near future the need of the logistical parks for storing spaces are getting less interest as technology is getting advanced in speed delivery and transportation. Therefore these timely structures gradually overtake the area making a productive landscape. We used densification methods to create the different wood types.
We prioritized the biodiversity enrichment and how the ecology works with these bands, the principle of island bio-diversity application on the structure made the base framework. And introducing different patches along with it, developing the edge functions and a way to make the flow of the species and resources through the landscape.
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The process inside the structure significantly improves the forest qualities, and ground water qualities.
These main elements are used to apply on the outside of the territory area as an improvement.
The plots, vegetation, water ways and spaces are precisely proportioned and placed to accommodate the last lifecycle of the logistic park and after for the survival of the landscape framework.
This is an example of how landscape urbanism could be a solution to these kinds of urban explosions and aftermaths.
The structure itself survives on this site, establishing a strong landscape that overcomes logistical and industrial park systems. This will reshape the plane and vertical elements, and at the same time give more possibilities for regional development.
Nipun Hettiarachchi & Shijia Han
Oslo School of Architecture and Design - Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo
