This week we had interim presentations of concepts and sketch productions to get critique on our approaches and methods.Several teachers gave feedback as well as the studentsThe teachers were represented by both architects and engineers even if most of the work might not be on a structural level yet. The engineers found some concepts to engage in too at least.

A lot of cool concepts were shown and the variety of approaches was really interesting to see. Everybody were searching for their own way into the project and many different sources of inspiration were shown.

I ended up building my studies of the situation on the documents found at nordhavnen.dk and the information I had available about the Excentral Park project. As Marius Nygaard asks us to bring focus to sustainability this semester I looked into some books on the subject and found more source material on what is already known and working concepts in that field.

Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities and The Green Skyscraper gave me some good ideas to build my design features around. On the side I work with how I should tackle the program requirements to create a design that responds well to the concepts of social sustainability as well.On Thursday Dahl & Uhre Arkritekter came in and gave us a lecture about their work with Mosaïc Region and Excentral Park – Edge Dynamics. They contributed a lot of material that gives superb input for anyone no matter how they’ve decided to take on the project I think and they also let us in on many of their own principals from the design process.