Catalogue of Ideas

Team Point of View

Guovdageaidnu’s urbanity reflects its past and present; it is a hybrid manifestation of ancient nomadism and the introduction of modernity. We trace five strategies from its history to develop its future and to carve out existing qualities.
- Relating to the “smooth tundra”, we push multifunctionality into public space.
- From the network of connectivity, a few informal pathways are improved to connect urban and natural points of interest.
- Like the first sedentary introduction of programs, “functional acupuncture” strengthens the urban, natural and social fabric.
- With the polarity of urban fronts and rears towards the tundra, buildings are grouped in urbanized clusters. Islands of urbanity in the tundra will form a “striated Guovdageaidnu”, with the new five densified central clusters.

Jury Point of View

Based on an informed interpretation of Guouvdageaidnu’s development as a hybrid settlement, the project presents a very ambitious answer to the challenging call and to the general topic of the “Productive City”. The project interestingly frames the site as having developed or unfolded between the “smooth” space of the tundra and the “striated” space of the modern welfare state. It further elaborates this framing by proposing a set of five strategies for strengthening and articulating a specific “Sámi urbanism”