ReciproCity
Team
Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG – Vahanen – ARUP Foresight Innovation – Transsolar Energietechnik – Anttinen Oiva Arkkitehdit AoA – Masu Planning – Passiivitalo.fi – Pasi Mäenpää – Mikko Jalas
Statement from project team
ReciproCity is an architectural principle applicable to any given master plan, land use map or urban matrix. ReciproCity optimizes the potential benefits of natural daylight, sky exposure as well as passive and active solar heat gain.
Rather than focusing selfishly on the singular project it is a principle that offers mutual exchange for mutual benefit.
By applying design parameters to the individual block guided towards optimizing the conditions for its neighbors, and by letting the neighbors reciprocate the courtesy; we have developed an urban volumetric logic that creates optimal conditions for all while simultaneously ensuring a spatially varied and visually stimulating townscape.
In addition to the principles of ReciproCity we have suggested a whole palette of ideas operating at various scales: from the scale of the inter city network of ferries to the scale of the individual living and working unit. The ideas include the active use of geothermal heat storage and earth cooling as well as cleaning the air and water using the natural properties of selected plants.
These ideas are driven by technical capabilities and functional demands and are free to improve and evolve as habits change and technologies improve during Jätkäsaari’s gradual completion over the next decades.
Ecosystem design
The words ecology, economy and ecosystem stems from the greek word for house: oikos.
Ecology – is the study of the house or living
Economy – is the management of the household
Ecosystem –is the system of houses or living = the city.
To design our cities and buildings in such a way that they form sustainable equilibriums for the pres- ent and the future, is to design ecosystems. It requires a systemic approach to architecture and urbanism that doesn’t distinguish between city and landscape, manmade and natural, but attempts create holistic entities that channel the flow of people, goods, light, air, heat, water and other resources in a form of perpetual motion engine of renewable resources.
Our proposal for Sitra’s site in Jätkäsaari is looking at flows of resources at 4 different scales
- the Ecosystem of Jätkäsaari in the context of the Gulf of Finland
- the ecosystem of the neighborhood
- the ecosystem of the building
- the ecosystem of the living/working unit
