ØKERN SHOPPING CENTER
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| Dictated by retail programmatic requirements, this site holds the largest single building at Økern Center; with a footprint of 32.000 m2. This mixed use proposal transforms the main constraint into a design opportunity by consolidating interior commercial flow and public city streets into one system; dissolving therefore the closed box typology, so typical in conventional retail architecture.
The ambitions for this project are multi faceted, combining state of the art shopping logistics with strong east-west public porosity, creating street oriented shops along the main street Ulvenveien and incorporating cultural programs like a library and a planetarium, within the core of the commercial system. The structure consists of a non-directional geometry based on a repetitive circular pattern tat creates a free organizational system.
The building mass is split at ground level by an outdoor half-covered pedestrian street and an open circular plaza, facilitating and intensifying the already existing public flow across the site. This open street links the proposed pedestrian bridge over ring 3 with the main street, completing the east west public axis across the entire development towards the Millennium Park and residential areas beyond.
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Location: Økern, Norway
Plan/Size: 124.000 m2
Client: Steen & Strøm Eiendomsforvaltning AS
Projectgroup: Ghilardi+Hellsten Arkitekter / SpaceGroup Arkitekter
Consultants: Arup London and Arquitectura Agronomia
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