Samaranch Memorial
Category
Location
Tianjin, China
Client
Samaranch Memorial
Collaboration
Archiland, HAO Architects, COWI, TADI
Contract period
Finished 2013
Contact
Hans Kragh
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
