1ST PRICE ex aequo AVIAPOLIS URBAN BLOCK INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Marco Baccarelli, Beatrice Galimberti, Martina Orsini

IBIDEM DESIGN AND RESEARCH GROUP

Aviapolis condenses many scale shifting and an heterogeneity of urban elements, acting as a centrality of a high scale system. Its identity is comparable to a mosaic composed of multiple peculiarities and dimensions and can in no way be considered an employees suburb gravitating on the inner city. Being an infrastructural focal node, it interacts both at supranational and local scales. This, combined with its special localization, strengthens the potentialities of becoming also an ecologically, culturally and economically fulcrum. Indeed, Aviapolis is also engaged with a complex and overlapped urban and metropolitan system, where meaningful frames are intertwined giving rise to a multitude of relationships and evolution opportunities. The combination between large and high impact buildings and infrastructures with low density and rarefied settlements, so as with widespread green environmental system, make this area an inspiring urban background within which to experiment new spatial relationships and connections.

The main goal of our proposal is to interact through the developing of a dense settlement pattern able to convey an original form of urbanity and centrality and to activate a dialog with the many essences of Vantaa urban milieu. The proposed urban structure aims to enhance the many inherent and potential urban values of the context experimenting a sort of reversal in the relationships between some of the dualities distinguishing this urban environment. Specifically, the relationships identifying solids and voids, indoor and outdoor, natural and reshaped environments, private and public, streets and buildings.