The Third Space

2021
Team point of view
Third places “host the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated gatherings of individuals beyond the realms of home (first space) and work (second space)’’. The infrastructure that was once conceived to connect functions, has changed into a barrier which separates the harbour area, cruise pier and residential area both spatially and socially. The Third Space brings these users and functions together in the heart of the island and divides this line into roughly three places, corresponding to the three time-layers and users. In all three places, a spatial mix of landscape, urban grid and harbour is formed to create a Risøy specific identity. A mixed zone, which can cope with different uses, quantities of users, rhythms of use, meanings and target groups.

Jury point of view
The project presents a holistic take on the development of Risøy. It is a comprehensive proposal that brings together the whole island and all the key actors in a new urban mix - a third space. The authors address four fundamental changes influencing Risøy: climate change, the end of the fossil era, demography and growth in tourism and see them as opportunities and “drivers of change”. This leads to a strategy handling local issues of lack of qualitative public space, no reasons to visit and the barriers between port, pier, and residential areas.