Frederiksberg New Urban Spaces
Location: Solbjergvej, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Client: Municipality of Frederiksberg
Team: Stig L. Andersson, Hanne Bruun Møller, Stine Poulsen, Lars Nybye Sørensen
Collaborators: Lighting is designed in corporation with consultant engineers Hansen & Henneberg
Design phase: 2001-2004 Construction: 2002-2005
Area: 1,8 ha.
Cost of construction: 4,7 mill. €
Entered for the Forum Prize 2005
Finalist for the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2006
"A Walk With Stig L. Andersson": WMP / Quicktime
Video of the nozzles in action (Quicktime)
Watch the video 'Let's Not Talk About Aesthetics' by SLA and learn more about the project
With the desire to change remaining areas between the bodies of prominent buildings into sensory spaces that can offer experiences and aesthetic value, SLA with Frederiksberg New Urban Spaces has created a surprising and living urban space.
Read Garten + Landscafts feature on Frederiksberg New Squares "Starke Bilder im Frederiksberg" (pdf)
Frederiksberg New Urban Space offers a sensory awareness that creates places, spaces and surprising meetings, both to and fro, play and sojourn.
The urban centre consists of juxtaposed spaces with different characteristics. With appeal to the senses and accessibility as a point of departure the five urban spaces in Frederiksberg contain qualities that we enjoy in nature: change, surprise and heightened awareness of transition and movement. Weather, season, use and maturing.
On Solbjerg Square luminescent mist floats close to the floor and circular reliefs cut into the surfacing collect rainwater into pools that reflect the sky. The soundscape is accentuated and varied by means of sound shafts placed around the square.
In spring Solbjerg Square vibrates with a shimmer of white flowers, where crab-apple trees and spruce stand side-by-side, their crowns lit up in the evenings: Light, scent, sound and movement. Together the five different spaces and the passages between them form a whole.
In autumn Library Square is a profusion of red leaves covering the quiet, subtle change of level of the floor.
On Solbjerg a bright, open park has been created with different kinds of pine on a grass base, differentiating in scent and colour, and visually in the way the branches and needles move in the wind.
