In the proposal for the Klaksvik City Center, DL+A _ SIZE* perceives the need to interact and present the city to the world as an open culture. As a pioneer in the city growing master plan in the region, this design shows the way they expect to be seen in the future, and how they expect to be prepared to respond to the local community growing needs. The way we design the path for the urban grown and population development aspects has a tremendous relevance on how humans will organize themselves in the future. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Planning is essential for any human settlement. It’s the only way they can start integrating people’s culture, life styles, space and sustainability, nature, so commonly mentioned in these days. The city, seen as the space where the societies interact, should respond to the citizens as a polyvalent and multifunctional space able to be adapted to all the requirements that the urban development demand. Klaksvik has realized the importance of become a model city in the Faroe Islands, with this value thought is our responsibility to be part of this important step. These times present us a contemporary world and society and somehow it responds to the way cities have grown or decide to grown.
