CONTEMPORARY PORT RENEWALS

HAMBURG
HELSINKI
AMSTERDAM
BARCELONA
 EVOLUTION
Entrepot port: port within an enclosed
city. Goods are stored and traded in
the city. Quay is also a public street.
To the middle of the nineteeth century.
MIDDLE AGE
1700
Transit port: port alongside an open
city. Flow of goods passes the city.
Division of city and port has begun.
From the end of the nineteeth century.
1850
Industrial port alongside a functional
city, both as autonomous phenomena.
Goods are processed in the port area.
From the mid-twentieth century.
1950
Distribution port and network city. The
port is rediscovered by the city as a
part of the urban landscape; the city is
rediscovered by the port as a potential
nerve center for logistic organisation
and telecommunication
2000
TYPOLOGY

BAY DISPERSION DOCKS GRID ARTIFICE

Génes Stockholm Liverpool New York tele-port of Tokyo

HAFENCITY HAMBURG

The city of Hamburg used to end at the customs fence of the free port, and hardly anyone ever noticed the area
behind the warehouse district.

In 1997 the Hamburg City Parliament decided to realise a project known as HafenCity. A competition was
organized 1999 to design a master-plan.

The planned area contains spaces for offices, commercial uses, housing, leisure and entertainment.
The design inter-links the harbour project thoroughly with the ensemble of the warehouses
and the old downtown area

HafenCity is not an isolated

city district between the inner city
and the harbour, but a part of the
city by the water. It is connected to
the downtown area and southern
city centre by various bridges.

Besides the parks,squares, and

streets, the public space includes
the large bodies of water of the
harbour pools and Elbe.
The interplay between the open
spaces on land and in the water
creates the special charm of
HafenCity.
Subdividing the project into eight sections allows the entire district to be developed in layers

The buildings on the southern boulevard of Speicherstadt are situated

so, that the connection to the sea is preserved.

The housing blocks of Kaispeicher open views to Elbe.

Towers create counterpart to lower, closed building masses.

The commercial services are concentrated in the dence blocks of

Magdeburger Hafen.

The U-shaped blocks along the old railroads open up towards the
water.

Low-rise buildings altern with green spaces .

A multipurpose hall connects public and private transport.

Mixed function of housing and commercial spaces. Low density.

The design exhibits a wide variety of up-to-date urban planning typologies

The promenades and walls of the quays lie clearly

above the high tide and open up extensive views.
 HELSINKI, JÄTKÄSAARI

A new city district is being planned for Jätkäsaari where the most important factors in the design are the maritime
quality, the urban shoreline with its favourable aspect and the potential for a whole variety of different leisure activities.

At present there is both a freight harbour and a passenger harbour at Jätkäsaari, but when the other harbour functions
move away from the city centre to Vuosaari, the passenger harbour will remain. Construction at Jätkäsaari will begin at
2005 earliest.
Development of Helsinki downtown area

1900 1940

1960 1980
The new plan for Jätkäsaari
by Helsinki city planning
department
Old image of Jätkäsaari New image
 AMSTERDAM

Amsterdam in the Middle Ages: Initial development on opposite Amsterdam, 1544 Amsterdam, 1795
the dam across the Amstel was sides of the dike.
part of the network of dikes
EASTERN HARBOUR AREA

1. KNSM- island
2. Java-island
3. Borneo- Sporenburg
4. Rietlanden
5. Entrepot- West, Abbatoirterrein, Veemarkt
6. Piet Heintunnel

The Eastern harbour area was in use as a harbour until 1980s. In recent years
it has been developed to become one of Amsterdam´s largest new residential
areas. In addition to housing there will also be small-scale industry and
commerce. Housing will be built in a density of 100 units per hectare.
Each individual neighbourhood within the area have its own urbanplanning
concept.
The area is linked to Central Station and the Zuidelijke IJ-oever by the IJ-
Boulevard, with the Piet-Heintunnel forming the link between the IJ- Boulevard
and the city´s ring road. From the year 2005 there will be a light rail system
running along the IJ-Boulevard.
Aerial view of the Borneo Sporenburg piers, and the model.
BORNEO SPORENBURG

General plan of the scheme for Borneo Sporenburg peninsulas (Amsterdam City Council)
Borneo and Sporenburg are connected to the rest of Amsterdam by the Rietlanden.

The urban planning design for Borneo and Sporenburg was developed by the
Amsterdam Department of Physical Planning together with West 8 Landscape Arcitects and
Arcitectenbureau Rudy Uytenhaak.
Grid of low-rise dwelling Sculptural blocks related to landscape

Superimposition Public space

 BUILDING TYPES

Terrace house Patio house

Maximizing individual void

Plan of the private spaces, in which the dense system of internal
Canal house
patios and the large courtyards of the three sculptural blocks are Patio house
visible.

City block
Sculptural block

Minimizing public space

Apartment
Loggia with full-deph
sunlight penetration
KNSM- ISLAND

Untill 1977 KNSM- island was the home port of the Royal Dutch Steamship Company.
The island is connected to the mainland by the Verbindigsdam and borders Java-island to the west.
The island´s main thoroughfare is the KNSM-laan which runs along its centre.

The urban planning design for KNSM-island was made by the City of Amsterdam Department of
Physical Planning, in collaboration with the ducht architect Jo Coenen. The lay-out and equipment
of the public spaces reflects the island´s history as a harbour.

Piraeus block by Hans Kollhoff and Christian Rapp

 BARCELONA
1850
New shipping and transshipment
technologies led to an adaptation
of existing harbor bays.
1900
Port facilities along the coast
expanded radically. Original
harbor bay remained part of the
total port area
1950
1990
Historical port continued to
Old port area still plays an
operate as a transshipment,
important role as fishing,
fishing and yacht marina until
passenger and yacht harbor.
1980. The yacht-marina function
grew in signifiance from 1970 on.
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1. Passeig de Colom-Moll de la Fusta 2. Port Vell 3. La Barceloneta 4. Poble Nou, Olympic Village 5. Reneval of Besòs, Forum 2004

Beginning in the early 1980´s, the renewal of the total waterfront was realized by means of a connected series of four individual projects.
The first was the area in which the old city fronted the harbour, the passeig de Colom-Moll de la Fusta; and the second the harbour front of
la Barceloneta, the Moll de la Barceloneta. These two projects combined to form the framework of the old port: Port Vell. The third project
was La barceloneta´s coastline and the last the seafront of the Ensanche, with the Poble Nou industrial zone as its core element.
PASSEIG DE COLOM - MOLL DE LA FUSTA

Harbour front as part of the local network

Barcelona 1990: main traffic network, with beltway Cinturon

Harbour front as part of the beltway

Passeig de Colom- Moll de la Fusta; reestablishment of the

balcony overlooking the water. Harbour front as part of the seaside landscape
Manuel de Solà- Morales
 LA BARCELONETA

Original concept for Port Vell,
showing the port as a central open area,
with emphasis on visual openness,
and a connection between the inner city
and la Barceloneta
Port Vell after completion of the renewed
Moll d´Espanya, showing the pier as a new
central area

La Barceloneta linked to the city by the reorganization of public space

La Plan for the coastline of la Barceloneta; design by Olga Tarassò and Jordi Henrich
The beach at la Barceloneta after the reorganization project, 1995 A reorganized Moll de la Barceloneta
 POBLE NOU

Plan of Poble Nou Poble Nou: four-layered plan analysis.

a. Urban and landscape related context of the design
b. large scale structural elements
c. superblocks
d. suburban infilling
BESÒS