De Rivo | Lillestrøm, Norway

Author: G. Convertino

Location: Lillestrøm, Norway

Dimension: 24 ha

Year: 2017

Rising sea-levels, caused by global warming, could lead to a complex future for Lillestrom. The proposal focuses on the relationships between land and water by asking “how the city can be developed to connect”. The masterplan aims to alternate urbanism and land use, which can be adapted and implemented at different layers. The topography of the project area adapts itself to the infinite possible passages, drawn by the river. In a future vision, part of Nesa is flooded by water. To navigate in a flooded area, polar coordinates became the fixed point and the nautical map is the tool to drift into the new neighborhood, made by the stratification of different layers. On this way, the masterplan is not a limit for human settlement, but it is an opportunity to build a cluster of substructures of a resilient city, mixing leisure and working activities in a multi-functional urban layers.