Polyform Arkitekter

Name, title and affiliation
Jonas Sangberg (info@polyformarkitekter.dk)
Polyform Arkitekter, Denmark

Short Biography
POLYFORM is a young architectfirm, which conducts tasks in planning, landscape, urban-building- and productdesign. At the moment Polyform and Karres en Brands are working on the renewal of Købmagergade, Hauser Plads and Kultorvet in the project: Fra Kultorvet til Mælkevejen (From Kultorvet to the Milky Way).
Abstract
The proposal is based on a simple concept, supporting both an intense and diverse city life and at the same time links the past with the present. This new design shows not only character and changeability but it also features a whole new way of looking at sustainable city spaces that contain openness to a wide range of uses for many years to come.

Through the use of simple elements of design and the use of natural stones in shades of black and white, the design team has created a unique course of streets like very few places on the planet. The city spaces slowly changes character from one space to the next, also with regards to functionality and history. The course of streets slowly changes character, from appearing all white and bright they change into black and dark once they become squares at Kultorvet and Trinitatis Kirkeplads.

Through special processing of the pavements the city spaces changes character with changing weather, which means that Købmagergade, Kultorvet and Hauser Plads always will have new sensory and emotional experiences to offer, no matter when you happen to be there.