Samaranch Memorial
Category
Location
Tianjin, China
Client
Samaranch Memorial
Collaboration
Archiland, HAO Architects, COWI, TADI
Contract period
Finished 2013
Landscape area
80,000 m2
Construction cost
60,000,000 DKK
Image Credits
Kragh & Berglund
Kragh & Berglund won the 1st prize in the competition for Samaranch Memorial – a park in memory of Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Spanish president of the International Olympic Committee.
The proposal places the memorial building in a park and creates a slight sloping landscape, inspired by the dunes landscape along the Westcoast of Denmark. By adding a hilly terrain in an otherwise flat landscape, the proposal creates it’s own intimate setting for the museum.
The park is overlaid by a fine grid that expands in strategic places and creates rooms with different characters. In the middle of the park there is an artificial lake that works as a stormwater management feature to the area. The water is led from the planting areas to the central lake, and afterwards to the nearby canal.
“By adding a hilly terrain in an otherwise flat landscape, the proposal creates it own intimate setting for the museum.”
Want to learn more?
Contact Hans Kragh
hkr@kragh-berglund.dk
+45 81 72 74 53
