Diplomprosjekt
Vår 2021
Institutt for arkitektur
Public spaces of car and of man are not separate. Despite the dimensions that form them are often unique, the qualities they possess are often shared - being spatially generous, functionally versatile and highly intertwined with urban fabric.
Car parks, specifically, are curious places in a city. They serve the vast infrastructure of a larger whole while vehicles are, in the course of a daily cycle, shuffled in and out. Whether being above or below ground, the resulting spaces is that of a compressed machine, meant to utilize most out of its given footprint. Despite the required efficiency of spatial use, they still hold the car as its main subject, resulting in an architecture driven by a larger-than-human scale that equals that of plazas and avenues.
It is this special quality of public-ness that a car park possesses, that I wanted to study. Within such a structure, generous voids in an endless flux between vacancy and occupancy leaves room for more - a public, even half-private, performance. I propose an above-ground multi-story car park where space of man and machine is partnered.
Jens Henrik Johnsen / johnsen.jh@gmail.com
Car parks, specifically, are curious places in a city. They serve the vast infrastructure of a larger whole while vehicles are, in the course of a daily cycle, shuffled in and out. Whether being above or below ground, the resulting spaces is that of a compressed machine, meant to utilize most out of its given footprint. Despite the required efficiency of spatial use, they still hold the car as its main subject, resulting in an architecture driven by a larger-than-human scale that equals that of plazas and avenues.
It is this special quality of public-ness that a car park possesses, that I wanted to study. Within such a structure, generous voids in an endless flux between vacancy and occupancy leaves room for more - a public, even half-private, performance. I propose an above-ground multi-story car park where space of man and machine is partnered.
Jens Henrik Johnsen / johnsen.jh@gmail.com
