Co-Krøgenes - Community Is Care

Team Point of View

Community is care. Since the beginning of time, people have come together, lived together, and taken care of themselves and their community. This is how our cities and societies came into being. In today’s fast-paced world, these community ties are often diminishing, and people are becoming more and more lonely, despite growing cities.
The concept of “Co-Krøgenes“ sees the solution in an approach that focuses on the community, the immediate lived environment and all those involved in it. Community is care! In contrast to the classic profit-oriented or simply housing-focused approach, the concept of “Co-Krøgenes“ stands for a holistic approach. A caring community focuses on the needs of the residents, the environment and the future.

Jury Point of View

The project proposes a realistic and sustainable strategy for transforming the big box typologies in Krøgenes. It succeeds in showing a strategy for maintaining and repurposing a maximum number of existing retail buildings, preserving them as they are, and developing a vibrant mixed-use and car-free urban environment around them. “Co-Krøgenes“ takes the parking issues seriously and demonstrates how the commercial life of the area can be sustained during the transition from car-based big box shopping into a credible mixed-use cluster centred around a successful 10-minute city concept. Furthermore, it integrates a well-developed intermodal structure into the site. This enables Krøgenes to become a well-connected district centre with a walkable interior and robust public transport connections while allowing its retail businesses to serve the car-based suburban neighbourhoods around it.