newitalianblood

Europan addresses again the matter of adaptability, temporaryness and sustainability to the ever-changing condition of cities. Trondheim’s district of Nyhavna is the testing ground where playing out our personal declination of the adaptable, through an approach which combines a new waterfront, the existent heritage, the renovation of an industrial district and local cultural actors. Looking at this miscellaneous context, the false mirror launches an inedited process in which the reinterpretation of four local archetypes takes shape through the development of a typological abacus Contextually adapted rather than generically adaptable, the abacus gives Trondheim an inedit compromise between innovation and tradition, flexibility and permanence. Strandveikaia becomes the stage of an interactive process of situations, a new thrilling scenery for the waterfront of Trondheim, through a plan that works with time and against the generic city.