386 EAAE no 35 Teaching and Experimenting with Architectural Design: Advances in Technology and Changes in Pedagogy
Another group of students worked with a contaminated, post-industrial site of unused
rail tracks to develop a concept of a space free of programme and design – a space open
to be occupied in unpredictable ways by groups of people, local or not, some of them
who have been squeezed out through a process of gentrification of neighbourhood of
Vesterbro, where the site is located. The space of the unused tracks is proposed to be
planted with trees and bushes, which help to cleanse the soil in the medium and long
terms. All urban development is concentrated on bridges connecting the neighbourhood
of Vesterbro with the Copenhagen harbour front. [see figure 2 - 5].
Figures 2 and 3
Work by Morten Engel, Gustav Szymala and Sigurd Larsen. The models shows the development of
a proposal that re-conceptualizes a post-industrial space, a terrain vague as an unprogrammed
area, free of design. The area is left open for unpredictable types of appropriation and thus
new types of publicity. A space of unused tracks is planted with trees and bushes that work
towards the cleansing of the contaminated soil.