a+u 653: Nordic Waterscapes assembles nineteen projects across six Nordic countries to map how architects are rethinking the edge between water and city — from industrial port rehabilitations to saunas, floating structures, and climate-adaptive urban development at the scale of entire new districts.
About This Book
Water has always shaped Nordic cities, but the urgency of climate change and the post-industrial transformation of waterfronts has made that relationship newly charged. This issue of a+u surveys nineteen projects spanning six countries to trace the full range of contemporary responses: the intimate scale of a sauna building that continues centuries of wellness tradition, the civic ambition of a harbour precinct designed to absorb sea-level risk, and everything in between. Nordic waterscape architecture is shown here not as a regional style but as a set of specific, varied propositions about accessibility, ecology, public life, and the extension of habitable space into and onto bodies of water. Essential reading for anyone working at the intersection of landscape, urbanism, and coastal design.
Key Features
- 168 pages of project documentation, drawings, and critical architectural photography across nineteen featured works
- Notable projects include: Lonna Sauna, Helsinki by OOPEAA; Bademaschinen, Oslo by ACT! and Borhaven Arkitekter; Nordhavn, Copenhagen by Cobe
- Published by Shinkenchiku-sha, ISBN 9784900213135
What You'll Discover
- How Nordic architects are converting obsolete industrial port infrastructure into activated, mixed-use urban waterfronts
- The continuing evolution of the Nordic sauna typology as both a community building and a site-specific architectural problem
- Design strategies for climate resilience at the district scale, as demonstrated by Cobe's Nordhavn development in Copenhagen
- How questions of accessibility and the extension of habitable space onto and into water are being addressed across six distinct national contexts
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 168
- Dimensions: 220 x 290 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9784900213135
- Publisher: Shinkenchiku-sha
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, urban designers, and landscape practitioners with an interest in waterfront design, Nordic architecture, climate-adaptive urbanism, and public infrastructure at the water's edge.