newitalianblood

The new masterplan for Klaksvík strives to build a new way of living in the open public spaces through “spatial ecology”: the project wants to restore continuity to residential space at all scales of the project, from the design of the sidewalk up to design of urban systems on a regional scale. This system is characterized by shared space where shape and matter of the soil create the conditions for a pedestrian priority that, without interrupting the traffic, promotes public walking. The emptiness is the constitutive element of the new urban spaces: the emptiness that elsewhere is simply only the space between things, in the project becomes the primary structure of the city, a emptiness that finds its reasons and its viability in relation to the context of which conveys the flows.