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seek unease as self protection
Statistics Greenland / Foreign Trade
Greenland has a negative trade
balance. 64% of total trade is import.
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Employment in Greenland
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industry 3,1%
fishery 4,9%
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PATTERN
noun
2 the patterns of ant behavior: system, order, ar-
rangement, form, method, structure, scheme, plan,
format, framework.
verb
someone else is patterning my life: shape, influence,
model, fashion, mold, style, determine, control.
BREAK
verb ( past broke ; past part. broken )
2 [ trans. ] interrupt (a continuity, sequence, or
course) : the new government broke the pattern of
growth | his concentration was broken by a sound.
noun
2 a break in the weather: change, alteration, varia-
tion.
SCENARIO CONCLUSION:
The arctic ice has
www.globaltimes.com Faithful since (2043)
melted about 40%
since 1979. if this
SCENARIO
WHEN SHIPPING
And while some lots stood empty
continues, both the
northwestern and the
TURNS or half-built,structures. finished
with empty NORTH
TO others stood northeastern passage
ECONOMICS THE BOOM: Europe on top BIGGEST SHIPPINGPORTS
Luxurious apartments with a view
will be open for
to die for in the heart of the city shipping over the
The boom in centre. 1 Panama Canal 11 Santos arctic in just a few
2005
12
Rest of the world
2 Suez Canal 12 Tianjin
10
North America But this Shanghai
3 “luxury”, 13 New York and New Jersey
was only years. this will
experienced from 14 Europoort
4 Singapore
the inside.
shipping trade:
8 2003
6
Asia 5 Antwerp 15 Hamburg shorten one of the
6 Piraeus 16 Le Havre
4 1993 7 Terneuzen 17 St Petersburg People got smitten by this sudden burst of colour biggest european
and activity. This new positive energy burst out
Europe on top
8 Plaquemines 18 Bremerhaven
2
1973
1983 Europe
9 Houston 19 Las Palmas in...knitting! shippingroutes, rotterdam - japan/china with
1963
10 Ijmuiden 20 Barcelona
15 out of 30 days.
1943 1953
0
Source: John Vidal “Shipping boom...” Source: A Year of Global Shipping Routes Mapped by GPS
this and the rescourseharvesting of oil and
Global trading-routes today: gas in the arctic will mean big opportunities,
The shippingindustry now carries more but also enormous threats for the people,
than 90% of the world’s trade-volume, and and especially the indigenous people, living
has tripled its tonnage since 1970, with Europe in the arctic.
as the biggest tradeshipper.
Major shippingroutes
Major merchandise port Trading routes today
Major future merchandiseport? Shipping
One of the biggest
European trading-
routes today are
between Europe
Biggest European trade-route: and Japan, and
Europe and China.
One of the biggest European trading-routes A normal shipping
today
route uses about
30 days between
are between Europe and Japan, and Europe and
Europe and Japan.
China. Cars, fish, oil and
gas are the biggest
trades.
A normal shipping route uses about 30 days
between Europe and Japan.
Cars, fish, oil and gas are the biggest trades. Trading routes tomorrow
Cars
Shipping marketplace
Biggest European future trading-route: Due to the shrinkage
of the polar ice, the
northwest-passage
Due to the shrinkage of the polar ice, the and the northeast-
passage has opened.
northwest-passage and the northeast-passage shipping
A normal
route uses now
has opened. Oil
about 10 to 15 days
less between Europe
A normal shipping route uses now about 10 to 15
and Japan.
days less between Europe and Japan.
Cars, fish, oil, gas, and
nuclear waste are
now the biggest
Cars, fish, oil, gas, and nuclear waste are now the
trades.
Fish
biggest trades.
CONCEPT SKETCH
In Vardø, the sun is only
Biggest global trade-goods:
Cars shining in the summer-
Cars
months. As there is always
a bigger need for
heating in cold areas,
even in summer, there is
Fish actually more efficient
using solarcells in the
north than in the south
Fish during the summermonths.
the diagram shows the
Oil
efficiency of using solar
heat in the north.
solar thermal-colletors
heats water and is not
Oil temperature dependent.
During periods of low
demand for heating,
collected heat can be lead
The Arctic House includes answers to local
Printed on 100% recycled paper
into an isolation tank and
stored for later use. needs like a new marketsquare for local
DEBATING THE ARCTIC FUTURE
cultural activities; amongst others, as an
The roofs are about 400m2. Physical model: eventplace for the annual international
Solarcollectors collect The Arctic House and marketsquare
300kwh per m2 / INSIDE PUBLIC AREA: room for culture, snowballcompetition hosted by Vardø
400m2 roof x 150 kwh per local events, exhibitions and cross- each winter.
m2 = 60 000 kwh per m2, cultural meetings.
per year.
Cold North / Abandonment / Transition / Struggle
INVITATION SECTION OF THE
WHY BUILD SOMETHING NEW IN A CITY
ARCTIC HOUSE
WITH ALLREADY TOO MANY
“We throw a stone into the Хлеб да соль! (’let bread and salt never leave your home’) it to live in this town? How do the inhabitants
How is
define themselves, their town and their identity? In
EMPTY HOUSES? Хлеб да соль!
water, sand swirl up and
settles again. The stir was
(’let bread and salt never leave your home’) which way do they feel a sense of belonging to their
- Rethinking identity and sense of place in Nikel, Russia is it articulated?
place and how
Rethinking identity and sense of place in Nikel, (RU)
necessary. The stone- has
Rethinking identity and sense of place in Nikel, Russia
found its place. But the Our perception is colored by the many news flashes
from this city, the pollution, the dead nature and the
pond is no longer the same” inevitable misery of the people living there. However
the situation, people still live in Nikel and their
perception of their place is different.
Peter Zumthor
The magic of the real” – of
the physical, of substance,
of the things around me that
I see and touch, that i smell
and hear. Sometimes – the magic
is conveyed by a specific
architecture or landscape, a
specific milieu, its suddenly
there; it has materialized like
the measured growth of the
soul, un noted at first.”
-unknown
Uncertainty / Transformation / Disorientation
a towns position as uncertain to its own future, yet
reluctant or powerless to change its path, leaves its
inhabitants in a flux between flight or surrender in a
struggle for the city to reproduce the story of itself
and its identity
What happens to a town structure when there is
less people. Many places become an in between
space without specific program and “empty
space”. But is there such a thing as “empty
space” ?
It is the atmosphere of places and
spaces that kindle our emotion,
and the physical presence of
the things constitutes the
spaces in which we live.
rearranging and injecting program into old buildings to