ABOUT VIINIKANLAHTI URBAN IDEA

TAMPERE : Geography | Climate

Tampere, one of the biggest cities in Finland, is the center of the Pirkanmaa Region. Tampere is located between Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi Lakes. The current, which consists of the height difference between these two lakes, has been used in the region throughout the history of transportation and logistics support in various industries and energy production areas. Climate is average temperature and snow with -10 / -2 ° C in winter, and 11/23 ° C average temperature and rainy in summer.

Tampere, formerly known for its pioneering attitude in the textile and metal industries, is currently active in the fields of information technology, automation, and telecommunications. There are two universities in Tampere: “University of Tampere (UTA)” and “University of Tampere Technology (TUT)”. Tampere, which does not lag behind the global trend in terms of modernization, is growing with both business opportunities and population. Simultaneously, it also constitutes the infrastructure planning that can overcome this growth. The transformation of Tampere's urban transportation system from bus lines to tram continues; In the future, the dominant transport network is planned to be tram. Tampere, which constitutes an important stop in each of the railway, airport and bus networks in intercity transportation, does not have problems in terms of accessibility within the country.

The first historical building based on the literature on the competition area begins with the evaluation of the existing Hatanpää Mansion as agricultural land. Afterward, the land, which was evaluated in the industrial phase, warehouse, and technical maintenance functions and underwent various modifications, has been used to create a basin for the water treatment plant since the 1970s.

The competition area, which is determined as the “Residential Area” in the future plans (See Five-Star City Center Development Program), is intended to be reformed in the focus of urban and landscape planning, which will constitute the basis for modern, attractive and functional solutions.

TAMPERE: Culture | Life

Tampere, in everyday life, is in a city position with a strong interaction with cultural and artistic activities. It is proud of and preserves its traditional culture without hesitation from global cultural influences and similarities. The city, where activities such as Philharmonic Orchestra, Jazz, Rock, and many other music branches are intense, also hosts the first recording studio that is important for the media history of Finland. Hosting popular events, high-budget TV channels, events such as short film festivals, Tampere has the vision to maintain and develop its active position in this direction. Especially in Finland, two factors feed on arts and culture. these are interactions with nature and human relations. In this context, the need for places where local artists and global entrepreneurs can continue their activities within Tampere is always up to date. Creating these spaces that will be nurtured by both nature and social life is the duty of a large-scale formation as of designer actors and participating public stakeholders.

Context

The competition area has a lot of potential in the upper scale planning, apart from being a “Residential Area”. The design area that will cause the city center to be shifted will provide this orientation by creating new sub focuses and linking existing local foci. The region should have strong attraction areas such as lake views, water sports activities, qualified recreation areas, and social areas leading to sustainable interaction in order to create its sub focuses. In addition to these, with the green area flow that it will host the focuses of “Pyynikki Esker Ridge and Nature Conservation Park - Lidesjärvi Nature Conservation Park” and the City Center (Hatanpää); The goal of linking their sub-focus to the entire city with transportation networks is pursued.

Residential Area

Within the scope of the competition, there are very strong orientation directions. The first of the trends used in the design and creating an optimized condition for conventional building physics competencies is in the direction of the South. This orientation controls the interaction with the Sun in the “Human” focus; Thanks to the direct radiation, it highlights the positive effects on human psychology and building ecology. My other orientation is towards Viinikanlahti Lake, in line with the current landscape. This orientation creates efficient vista points for the users both in the design public spaces and in the housing masses; It constructs a base that will allow the interaction of "human" and "lake".

Within the design area, two green arteries with visual perception are arranged. These fluid connectors enable both the transportation with pedestrian use oriented pedestrian roads and the interaction regarding public gathering and activities. The first of the green arteries in question is a conjunction that runs continuously along the coastline, connecting Hatanpää Manor Park and Höyrynpuisto Park. The other green artery, on the other hand, protects the existing green fabric on the Hatanpään Highway, east of the design area, and strengthens its impact area by contacting. This artery also softly expresses the boundaries of the design area to the urban user, who interacts remotely without any activity within the design area, and to people entering the design area instantly with the transitions on the road.

The design area has an important place within the existing city memory, and 4 large pool traces in the water treatment plant have been partially preserved. This orientation caused the contour trace of the sub focal points, which are also supported by educational structures. This Focal Point, which is easily perceived in the first reading and becomes a square, aims to be used as an activity area where events such as exhibitions, festivals, concerts can be held. The Square (Focus), which intersects with tram stops and pedestrian crossings, shielding involuntary exaggeration transitions between the city user and the lake coastline; controls the contact surface with water. On the other hand, the educational structure that will be active especially based on primary and secondary education, in the said Square (Focus) tangent; It has been solved with the qualification elements that are accessed from all access roads under ergonomic conditions, equidistant distance to almost all residential network, and that the landscape-sun orientation is optimized.

Before the residential application was created, a reference axle system was created to prevent the exit points of the above-mentioned design from blocking each other and preventing them from causing a chaotic situation. This application system is limited to green arteries on the coastline and land contour side. The mass order at the top is removed within the optimal distance from each other; Meanwhile, a focusing gap is created under the existing water treatment plant stain base, which has an important place in the city's memory.

The structure patterns in which markets, cafes and similar service units that will enable various commercial activities are solved within a base offer a readable clue about typological analysis within the scope of urban user perception; provides distinction easily. Base structures, where the human scale responds with a peaceful scale, also reduce the perception of the upper blocks from the ground plane and offer a generic and inviting image.

“Breakwater”, which points to a safe area for the marina based on water structures, is designed to maintain the upper scale perceptual trace of the green artery. Marina, which forms a base for coastal tourism in the focus of the city user, is also located in this perception trace. The Rowing Club and Large Passenger Ships Pier, which varies in terms of space, even though its functional context does not intersect, has been resolved in the southern part of the design area, also within the scope of this trail.

The tramway maintenance station and the backup water treatment plant, which will continue its lifetime, have been disconnected from the public use foci and residential building due to the possible noise that has been created, and it has been solved in the north of the design area. The separator effect of recreative green use has also been used in order to prevent the city users who will work within the base patterns from being harmed by the negative interactions.

Wall

Following the vehicle road to the southwest of the design area and the green texture where the structural transition begins, a multifunctional wall element is designed. The first function of this wall is to define the design area, to create a legible border with the city. It may be possible that the definition of “border” may at first glance create a negative perception; however, it is necessary to highlight some threshold distinctions for this region. It is not possible to leave or enter a place without borders; at least it is obvious that such a sensation may not be the case. The transitions on the wall constitute the second function of this building element. Invitingly taking the city users after the green texture or taking it to the green texture with a permeable and flexible attitude in the opposite direction supports the function of the wall in this sense. The vehicle road, located in the same direction with the wall and intersecting with it, directs the vehicles to the third function, the car park or the exit, without inserting the vehicles into the design area. The wall element, which creates an eave detail on the car park, ensures that a car park is a building approach that occupies only the ground level. Instead of an irregular crowd of vehicles, the user looking at the residence perceives the wall building element created with architectural concern.

In-Field Traffic

Within the design area, the entry and exit of vehicles are limited and the use of the current composition is primarily prioritized by pedestrian city users. For emergency or service situations, an additional service road has been designed in the north of the design area, which has an indirect relationship with the residential settlement, with access to the tramway maintenance station and the backup water treatment facility. The route, which will provide boat or material access to the marina by land, is defined as a non-manufactured transition from asphalt material, which will work with a pedestrian-focused intensity in limited periods. Thus, although it does not create a conventional vehicle road image in terms of graphic effect and user perception, there are road use oriented roads in the northeastern, southeast and southwest directions of the land to be used in emergencies. One of the important inputs of the design is bicycle paths; Because the use of bicycles in Finland is common, it is frequently emphasized in their future visions. In this context, the design area is defined as a high-speed bicycle path on the road contact surface, and a recreational bicycle path that offers uninterrupted sustainability with a line parallel to the coastline and other beach use possibilities.

Coastline

The coastline is designed to increase lake interaction with the city user and create a base for new functions. The “wetlands” (the use and evaluation of “marshland” in Finland is very common). The coastline, which makes exits, enables city users to interact more with the water element; increases the contact surface. Another set of functions that city users will benefit from the lake are rowing and fishing. It is especially emphasized that a pier structure is needed for boats of various sizes and depths, within the framework of the current city vision plan. The piers are positioned at intervals that benefit the traffic ergonomics of the boat, which will reference the base mass traces on which the residential superstructures are located. The piers have been formed with a narrowing geometry to meet the user flow that will decrease in line with the direction of the lake and to decrease the structural effect within the related habitat. The piers, which are also extensively in the direction of land, can establish direct relations with the sub focal areas of the design area; meanwhile, the buffer zone can direct users directly to the lake without feeling the need.

High Building Approach

The design area emphasizes the useful distinction between the city users who are permanent residents and the mobile users who will visit from time to time, not within a horizontal plane but along the vertical line. Thus, it is aimed to continuously integrate the user into the focus area life with the operations that will gain intensity in the z-axis. The use of plinth for the negative perception effect likely to occur based on a human scale in the ground plane was designed intensely; The functional distinction is clearly emphasized, with its distinctive architectural style and overflowing the contours of the superstructure as much as possible. Within the framework of the 2030 City Vision Plan defined in the competition specification, Tampere city center's main artery will be composed of high-rise buildings; however, it is anticipated that the existing industrial construction will continue along the south line. Due to its location, the design area has a threshold feature based on this prediction. As a matter of fact, in order to define the transition between scales, the housing blocks have been constructed in a rising attitude from south to north. Again, one of the important criteria that were clearly stated within the competition specification was the high precedent, which would lead to intensive use. On the other hand, the effort to increase in order to leave the use of the ground as green as possible has been seen as an articulated effort in this direction. The architectural attitude, on the other hand, has been created in such a way that the hipped roof application suitable for Scandinavian building physics is self-evident and refers to wood material.

Platform and Base

The idea of "platform" and "base" emerged intending to create a semi-public layer that will enable the transition between public and private uses. Fluid mass movements and orientations, social corridors and sub-focus streets have been created on these platforms, which mostly include service areas, commercial units, social interaction hubs. The green sub focused streets and squares, with the advantage of the use of green space and the increased contact surface provided by the platforms, with its high structure positioning, produce spacious intermediate arteries and functional solutions that do not allow complexity. The fact that the platforms and bases come under formally high residential structures also constitutes a positive situation for the perception of the user passing through the lower focal arteries. While the city users, who look at the design area from the built-in city basin, that is, benefit from the design itself, will read this orientation thanks to the high altitude of the buildings, while the user in the area will be exposed to the perception of peaceful, two-storey and mobile structure.

"Hubs"

Man is a social creature and is aware of this need for social interaction. The place where this need is met emerges as more specialized areas, namely "Hubs" where actions are clustered for today's world. The city user of our time prefers to spend his special time with people who have the same interests instead of living individually, in the places where the same activities are carried out, in a socially active place. In this context, the “Hubs”, which constitute the basis for clustered actions, have naturally emerged in modern city life and have a widespread approach with their functionality in the future. “Hubs”, which meet both current and potential needs, can also help keep social sub focal points alive. The mobile or resident city user will both benefit from these foci and nourish them, and ensure social continuity there.

Permaculture

It is a design and maintenance science that enables people to meet their material and intangible needs by taking advantage of the functioning of natural ecosystems, by harming the nature and the world they live on, not by harming it. A permaculture is an approach where we look at the solution, not the problem, what we want, not what we want, what is negative, not negative. Within the scope of the design, apart from the public space provided by the high-rise buildings on the ground level, perm - culture areas were designed to provide the green interaction that the human needs; It is provided to identify the planes that will form a base for urban agricultural production. It provides a social environment on the perm - culture platforms, which allow people to grow their own plants and consume them with their loved ones.