Fish Market / Kjellgren Kaminsky
Kjellgren Kaminsky shared their proposal for a fish market and its surrounding square in Bergen, Norway. The five story building will house a market hall on the entrance and first floor and try to attract visitors and tourists who are passing by. “We believe that the traditional market would gain more visitors if it was combined with a modern marketplace fully equipped and under one roof,” explained the architects.
More about the fish market after the break.
Most of the program fits into the compact building so the extra space in the square can be used as a public gathering space. This flexible gathering space, that can function as a temporary market, meeting place, or outdoor exhibition space, is part of a larger context as it connects to other public locations. The public space extends through the building ending in a balcony condition that provides panoramic views of the square and the marina.
The volume of the building and its materiality “collect its inspiration from Bergen’s building history and the reinterpretation of it in to a modern gesture”. The wood clad facade and the home’s spatial proportions were inspired by local building traditions.
Client: Bergen Municipality, Norway
Object: market square and fishmarket building
Size: 5000 sqrm market + 800sqrm building
Stage: concluded international competition
Team: Joakim Kaminsky, Fredrik Kjellgren, Corina Bermundez, Marie Löwenherz, Eli Bowes
Can the renderings be any more dramatic? *note sarcasm
Are they scared to present the building? Its so small in all the renderings. A larger picture of the last diagram would be helpful because I cannot even read what it says let alone any of the other images.
yawn, more chat about rendering.
the proposal is for a fish market and square, its not just about the building itself. How the building sits in the square was obvously important to the architects.
i understand that. like i said before… i can’t even read the diagrams showing the fish market square so how am i supposed to make comments about it??? i would definitely would rather make comments about those issues.
bergens weather is very dramatic, its the rainiest(?) place in the world
i find it hard to believe that most of the program can fit into that teeny tiny building. dont norwegians love their fish?
Where do you get your ideas about Norway from? Fish is a small part of our diet, we export a lot of fish though.
And the fish market in Bergen is filled with tourists for the most part.
I buy my fish at the supermarket like most Norwegians (frozen and fresh).
what’s the project? it’s hard to decipher
what they’re executing exactly…
Well, I can understand the difficulties people have reading the project; it’s a strange task as well. The fish market in Bergen is currently in an appalling state, so the council open
Did a 14 with Photoshop do the renderings? They’re incredibly distracting from the project.
“Oooh, Gaussian blur, let’s try that!”
I had a pleasure to visit Bergen two times. The fish market with shrimps caught the same morning and a variety of every seafood is amazing. If they succeed to make it without losing the lively, joyful ambiance of the place – it may be useful during rain- or snowfall. Norwegian people can deal with architecture, so the quality should be good.
Waiting for details!
There is something wrong with the scale of the rendering. The house will be almost the same height as the buildings in the background, and it will be just across the historic wooden buildings from the hansa-period.