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Höganäs has experienced a transformation from a fishing village, to a mining camp, to what it is today a modern industrial society. A transformation reflected in the slogan ”from coal to diamond”. the geographical position in the northern part of the Malmö – copenhagen region also brings in the necessity to connect it the regional scale, as well as to find a profile within the region. the region, as a whole, is fast growing and so is Höganäs. therefore the chal-lenge is to meet this housing demand without putting quantity before quality. to develop a community that is attractive for living and with the possibility to profit from the markets in the region. Höganäs has a very strong potential to create attractive housing areas close to the sea and nature. It is surrounded by a dramatic coastline, the most fertile land in Sweden and even has a city beach. this, in combination with a lively city centre, should guarantee a steady development of the city and municipali-ty. But planning is also about capacity. capac-ity to implement. ”therefore we hold a compa-rably big planning department with young and engaged staff. Our work reflects the engage-ment and belief in the future that we find in our citizens and politicians.” says Mila Sladic, the head of the Planning department. One of the key questions in Höganäs is the question how to deal with building on agricultural land. Is it possible to keep agricultural food production close to housing? Is it even possible to create a new type of housing in proximity to locally grown crops? A hedonistic living style with food production beyond the allotment garden?

What do you consider important for the planning of the city of tomorrow?One of the main reasons for participating in Europan is to find a concept that can be built and developed in the course of time. We are also trying to avoid repeating the similar hous-ing projects that you find all over Sweden.

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Hammarö municipality is an island in the big-gest lake in Sweden, Vänern. Many of its 15 000 inhabitants work in the local hub Karl-stad, which is less than a 15 minute commute away. Most people live in detached single fam-ily houses and there is a need to complement this type of living with other forms of housing. the competition site, which is a former hospi-tal, stands partially empty and a concept that includes both housing and other kinds of func-tions was asked for in the competition brief. the municipality has tried previously to devel-op the area as a business hub with the support of EU. the outcome is some activities related to It, such as computer servers and confer-ence centre. the competition is the first step to introduce housing, as a part of a new scheme to create a new community. It is a task that both includes architectural skills and a vision to cre-ate a new identity for this kind of area. It involves a kind of place making. “How can the existing and partly vacant houses contribute to a richer

housing community?” asks the municipal head architect Karin Manner. Hence the competition site, Sätterstrand, is about introducing anoth-er kind of housing or another kind of living; a complement to what can already be found in the municipality today. “At this very moment we are trying to incorporate the new vision of the municipality in the new Strategic land plan. One of the challenges is to grow at the same time as we can guarantee untouched natural reserves. Also, how to avoid car dependency in the future in our municipality.” says Karin.

What do you consider important for the planning of the city of tomorrow ?It is important for us to support the every day life of our citizens. In the future, we want to make it possible to manage the daily transport needs for everyone without the need to own a car. Also, the need to create places for meeting is pivotal for society.

HAMMARö KaRiN maNNER MUNICIPAL ARCHITECT

Kristinehamn is in a period of transition and the challenge is to be able to adapt to new condi-tions. during the post-war period until the 90s Kristinehamn was a small regional centre with a mix of large public institutions and large scale industries. Since then, many of the institutions have been closed and many of its industries have moved or shut down. However, at the same time an increase has been seen within small scale businesses and services. this development has been reflected in the demo-graphic, with a steady decrease in population since the 70s. Recently this flow has stopped and now the population is growing again. the reason for this is that Kristinehamn has man-aged to connect to neighbouring regions pre-dominantly through good train links, but also with the European highway E18. Kristinehamn can offer a lakeside location and a picturesque historic city centre. “People can now chose to live here and work either here or elsewhere.” concludes Kalle Alexandersson.

What do you consider important for the planning of the city of tomorrow ?One important task is about connections. As a smaller municipality with attractive nature qualities, we must be connected so that people can live here and work in nearby regions. then we can take the leap into a future where jobs are concentrated in fewer regional centres. the other task is to fortify local business to try to become an independent centre with our own local identity.

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Kalmar is one of the oldest cities in Sweden, a city that also wants to maintain its attrac-tiveness in the future. Being situated more or less at equal distance between Stockholm, Malmö and Göteborg, it is positioning itself as a regional hub. this is achieved partly by devel-oping Linnéuniversitetet as the knowledge centre in the region, and partly by promoting tourism. the competition site, Södra staden, is pointed out in the Strategic land plan as one of five designated areas for future growth. It is the coastal part of an archipelago landscape that has been subject to man made interven-tions for hundreds of years, and is again facing changes. “A great majority among researchers are convinced that the future climatic changes will affect our society drastically.” says Hanna Olsson at the planning department in Kalmar. It will include a rise of sea level that will be meas-ured in meters. Land today belonging to the coastline will be transformed into islands. “It is crucial that in the future, the competence of the landscape architects is integrated in the plan-ning processes, much more than today” states Hanna.

What do you consider important for the planning of the city of tomorrow ?We have to attempt to predict of the future; what will the needs and values of tomorrow be ? How can we create a socially sustainable society ? this last question is pivotal for us, since public spaces are the realm or responsibility of us, the municipality. We have to create places where people can meet, socialize and interact with each other and their surroundings.

the centre of Haninge epitomizes the mod-ernistic planning in Sweden, a planning ideal focused on separation rather than mixed use. But those days are over. People and politicians of today want an urban fabric, attractive to pedestrians and cyclists rather than cars. Add-ing to that, there’s an annual increase in popu-lation. With those wants and needs, develop-ments are in great demand, these conditions that can be taken advantage of. Haninge is also part of the Stockholm region, that aims to be Europe’s most attractive metropolitan region. In addition to the central core, eight urban areas have been designated as regional cores, Han-inge being one of these. “Haninge can make use of pre-existing infrastructure for new dwell-ings et cetera on land previously perceived as fully developed. We have great possibilities and responsibilities for sustainable develop-ment.” states Peter Olevik dunder, chairman of the Urban planning committee. the aim in this competition is the transformation of such an area at the very centre of Haninge.  the con-cept urban also implies a mix within the existing context. How could this new layer of ideology be superimposed on the site and at simultane-ously stay true to the site’s history and identity?

HANINgEpEtER OLEViK DUNDERCHAIRMAN Of THE URBAN PLANNING dEPARTMENT

What do you consider important for the planning of the city of tomorrow ?“High population density, good logistics for people as well as goods and developments that contain mixed uses to create a city filled with life. If not 24/7, at least a city moving in that direction.” states Peter Olevik dunder, chair-man of the Urban planning committee of Han-inge municipality.

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Hammarö is a neighbouring municipal-ity to the local hub Karlstad, a city with 62 000 inhabitants. Although Hammarö

has some local industry, it depends heavily on Karlstad. the constantly growing municipal-ity lies on a beautiful peninsula that reaches out into the largest lake in Sweden, Vänern. today most people here live in single family detached houses. the municipality owns lit-tle land and wants to find an alternative to the surface consuming suburban sprawl. the aim of the competition is to create an independent housing community with a clear ecologically and socially sustainable profile. Questions of energy, social interaction, services and new ways of living/working should be addressed. Also the slow growth must be considered ; the project will have to be developed in stages, but each stage must be able to support itself. the project should manifest a clear identity. connections to the surroundings are also important ; access to the coastline, walking paths in the forests and along farmlands and maintaining existing natural qualities. Inter-ventions must respect the scale of the site, and the existing buildings. the project site has several buildings. Some of them are empty; there is a restaurant, a kindergarten, a confer-ence centre, smaller companies, and a server space for computers. there is a clear potential for denser housing to maximize the use of the existing buildings and infrastructure by reacti-vating these and using them as a complement to additional housing.

with reality, one can also find the most bril-liant imagination. the sensibility to give value to the existing resources is also a main target when we talk about adaptability, and how cit-ies can be transformed through time just by adding things instead of erasing them. Most of the proposals tackle some other main issues, such as sustainability, ecology or energy in a very natural way. We can also point out some other groups of projects brought to the debate: the ones which were still linked to a kind of soft intervention dealing with low den-sity and periphery or proposals looking for the recreation of a more intense city, but in most of the cases losing scale or identity, not taking into account any sensitiveness to pre-existing structure, not using their extensive potential.

the proposals presented for this site are well focused in general in the targets pointed outby the municipality. Almost all of them take a position concerning what to do with the exist-ing built heritage in Hammarö, which was a main goal here. Most of the answers given by the participants have to do with the analysis or re-reading of the existing architecture and the incorporation of some kind of prostheses that are thought to be able to create some synergy with what currently exists. this has been, in some cases, especially successful and innovative. this hybridization concern-ing existing architecture was better when the aim was not just re-use but to imagine a new pattern emerging from the old one. In this sense, the projects show how, in connection

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The project considers time and heritage to be expressions of nature and life. the pro-posal will be divided into six phases, with a

maximum flexibility and a progressive adapta-tion, depending on the natural growth rhythm of the new “community”.

Urban Path : the fist step consists of the re-use of existing pavilions to start a social-economic regeneration of the area. We decided not con-sume rural soil, but to preserve forests and agri-cultural land. Strategic design plans to create growth around a closed street in the shape of a “Ring”, producing a new urban pathway with open public spaces and new stone flooring. In order to achieve a connection with the existing layout pavillons. We propose a tower dwelling typology, with integrated system of built links using existing pavilions on the ground floor. Along the external path, interchange stations keep cars out of the urban ring. New buildings offer different bioclimatic solutions and total flexibility in the adaptation to the environment.

Eco Path : the project defines strategies to pre-serve and regenerate the perennial landscape and strengthen the system of functional vegeta-tion for sun and snow seasons, the Eco Path will be developed on the outward ring around the core urban. A complete ecological restoration would be necessary to produce the forest and to offer a visual and climatic protection for the new built area: a natural example of urban growth. A wetland trail will increase a natural progression and link the urban area to the lagoon, changing from a static to a dynamic landscape.

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JURY’S COMMENTSthe Project takes advantage of the existing resources at the site adding simple but effective elements. concerning the architectural aspects, the existing buildings are re-shaped, obtaining a new identity. At the ground floor level this re-shaping includes the addition of some crystal-line porches, which will be connected to the new urban-path. these porches are very specific in their spatiality depending on their function, but they will also act as social spaces. Spaces in-between the public and the private realms. they constitute thermo dynamic and temperature regulators at the same time : a kind of protected street to increase social life and exchange. At higher levels the existing structures are com-plemented with towers of dwellings, increasing density on site. In this sense, the proposal works with the memory of the site and its values but also with their evolution considering this hybridi-zation, with new elements, the key to produce new synergies and revitalized common urban spaces. At the territorial or landscape level the eco-path complements the urban-path and also includes social concerns: small commu-nity orchards for production are considered as an extension both of the social public exchange and of the housing units. On the other hand the eco-path has ecological concerns related to the restoration of the forest and the creation of a wet-land trail. All together makes the proposal suc-cessful under the social, ecological, urban and architectonical point of view.

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The main objective of “Satellyzing Hamma-ro” is to regenerate the whole site proposed by different interventions all throughout

the area by a unique, global architectural pro-posal. After an extensive analysis of the site, we have set three different systems on which to act : the natural system, the architectural sys-tem and the infrastructure system. Our different actions will have the purpose of improving the situation of these systems. the actions to carry out will therefore be : preservation of the natural system, reactivation of the architectural system and connection of the infrastructure system. the mentioned systems will be formed of different “planets”, meaning each one of the elements of the site in which we are going to take part. the interventions made to these “planets” will be our satellites, producing changes on the preexist-ing “planets” and revitalizing the zone and its natural resources. On the one hand, the actions made in the natural system will be preserving the reeds and the tree corone and proposing new activities in the lake. On the other hand, in the architectural system, we will create differ-ent satellites acting on the preexisting buildings and introduce new functions, and we will create a new housing extension area close to the lake. Finally, we have two objectives in the infrastruc-tural system: reconnect Karlstad and Hammarö and restructure the paths surrounding the lake, creating new ones.

the jury especially appreciates two aspects of the proposal. the first one would be the inclusion of the whole ecosystem into the design arena. the proposal is very sensitive to how humans inhabit this area but also how the cohabitation of humans and other organ-isms, like birds for example, function. In this sense the proposal deals with the places for exchange and mutual exploration between all the inhabitants, human or no. the second interesting point is the configuration of a cata-logue of small interventions related to the nat-

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and with low investment. the already existing urban area is restructured with effective inter-ventions in certain points, combining leisure with energy and new functions. But the jury points out some doubts concerning the zoning of the housing units and their situation, creat-ing a sort of barrier near the lakeshore with a very repetitive housing typology which seems to be not in accordance with the rest of the cri-teria applied in the project.

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Adaptable satellite-topia is achieved through coexistence with the forest. therefore a new forest friendly dwelling

type for housing the community is designed to give new contemporary identity to the space, but with minimal site invasion. this is achieved through stacking houses and creating verti-cal rows. New buildings work together with existing facilities combining private and public spaces into a community platform where inter-action between inhabitants occur. through time, sustainable mixed used clusters (neigh-borhoods) are created. When a new cluster is created (few vertical rows), the surrounding wild nature becomes cultivated nature, but remains nature nevertheless. A linear public space loops through the site and connects all the clusters.

the jury appreciates the incorporation of a new way of living with a typology related to the poetical aspects of dwelling. It deals with the relation between inhabitants and their envi-ronment, also including the delight of dreams. What is it like to live in a forest? can we include a piece of it indoors? And would be possible to extend the domestic realm into the territorial scale of the landscape? Far from an answer based on utopia, the project uses the existing buildings and, in synergy with them, creates a new world, that works with the anthropological understanding of place and nature, but also with energy and sustainability. the “enclosed street” inside the existing building creates structure for an open, functional universe.

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The encouragement of start-up companies, research projects and the ability to foster development growth in an environment

that stimulates innovation, entrepreneurship and co-operation. Built heritage is mixed. Its components work in a minimum degree of acti-vation far from its maximum capabilities. the first entry of the pumping system is the ability to exponentially increase the flow of people, due to the attractive potential site for the region. A new paradigm of living in close relationship with the environment is proposed. Lake, reed and pollu-tion in it as a starting point to generate a system of houseboats to potentiate natural resources used afterwards on the site. the causal system is open, complex and may result in an infinite number of combinations. the result is implicit in its evolution.

the proposal gives a new toolbox for urban processes. the authors combine “plug” strate-gies, adding new architectural elements to the existing buildings, which is a strategy already present in other proposals at the site but then they include innovative ideas with the “pump” elements: pneumatic and ephemeral functions, related to events and are able to give identity to the site. It would be a kind of curatorial under-standing of urban processes through time. Adapting events to seasons without permanent decisions, but versatile ones. they combine these two tools with the “flow” ones, related to housing units. In total, they conform creative possibilities for future planning.

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Höganäs is the main town in the munici-pality providing services to and com-munication with the adjacent smaller

towns. It is also here that the future devel-opment of new residential areas is to be pri-oritized. Höganäs is a commuter town, where about 45 percent of total travel has a destina-tion outside the municipality. the car is still the predominant means of transport and road 111 and 112 act as spines in the street web. the architectural characteristics in Höganäs can be divided into different types as a way to show how various buildings in the city relate to one other. Large clusters of similar building types can reveal a unique identity for a certain neighbourhood. In many cases, however, it is a sign of mono-functionality and the lack of diverse function and usage. Green areas are an extremely important component of the city-scape, affecting well-being and encouraging physical activity. the project site is relatively close to the center. therefore, the area should not be seen exclusively as a commuter area with a focus on public transport opportunities, but also as an area for cyclists and pedestri-ans, with good connections to other areas. the competition task is to create a physical design proposal for a first construction phase of the project site and a more schematic pro-posal on how this area can grow further to the north. the city does not need a static mas-ter plan, but a scheme for organic growth over time.

enjoyed. this isolation was made using geo-metrical patterns of organization or islands, or creating some kind of permeable borders. A few proposals worked with enhancing of the landscape by adding to the agricultural terri-tory some other connections related to water or woodlands. In general a kind of perme-ability between agricultural land and city has been delineated and consequences related to society, energy, typologies, production or management of the land have been put on the table. It is one of the few sites where domes-tic typological concerns have also been taken into consideration. Open-ended processes were also depicted here, giving a rich vision about the future development, which will be implemented soon.

Maybe one of the most interesting questions which Höganäs brought into the debate is how can a city adapt in its growth to agricultural conditions without destroying them? And how is the language of the kind of city, of the archi-tectural spaces or the way of life attached to this? this is an intense research in urbanism and architecture and here the proposals have been able to give different answers but all of them revisiting old or opening interesting new debates. the consideration of a whole eco-system, taking into account architectural but also living organisms, was presented as a tool that makes it possible to design for all the con-cerned. In some other cases, the isolation of the two realms was able to develop free areas where the systems could be maintained and

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The international competition Europan 12 suggested the development of a residential area of about 24ha, in the city of Höganäs,

Sweden. Under the slogan “Adaptable city”, an urban plan with long term vision was sought, sustainable and dense, that wouldn’t come into conflict with the small scale of the existing build-ings, nor with the surrounding agricultural land. twinphenomena proposes to generate new set-tlements in Höganäs thanks to the reconciliation between urban and rural. the project colonizes the territory through a strategy of densification over time. It also integrates the agricultural land-scape in the voids of the urban fabric, always seeking a low footprint urban development. In order to achieve these goals, we propose a network of public spaces that manage their own “buildability” and a grid of productive gardens, to exploit the agricultural landscape. We define the rules that ensure its proper functioning (maximum “buildability”, relation between differ-ent scales of investment, maximum land occu-pancy, etc) and the guides for its subsequent management (centralization of ground floors, “buildability” exchange, community participa-tion, etc) A dual linear narrative, urban vector / rural vector, deals with concepts of sustainabil-ity, identity or participation, as well as qualities of diversity, porosity and hybridization. through this strategy, every concept of the intervention is transformed and developed towards the recon-ciliation between urbanity and agriculture.

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We could say that this is an example of how to do urban planning under the big concern of the adaptable city through time. It is a long term based proposal that focuses on relations an processes in the true sense. It is organised in stages and sequences. the system can have multiple outcomes, as the set of rules can be implemented with variation. the fabric is defined by the development and comparison, of the twin phenomena: urbanity and agricul-ture. Every parameter considered is looked at through this double point of view. We could say that the proposal is articulated following some hierarchical groups. First, urbanity and agricul-ture ; as a consequence of their interrelation, infrastructure, management, syntax, identity… all of them configure the rules to be able to write with the twin phenomena language. And finally the protagonists of the processes : individual actors, communities, public agencies or munici-palities and developers, let’s say the writers. In this sense the proposal gives the alphabet and the grammatical rules for the right balance and syntax, but the implementation needs to be written. What is defined is the way how the dif-ferent parts relate to each other, creating some specific lines : porosity, sizes, scales with differ-ent structures or nuclei of intensity and starting points. In addition, concerns about sustainabil-ity and low footprint are included. the final out-come is right in front of us, in the future.

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the project depicts an urban development arising from agriculture, farmland and food concerns. the starting point is a detailed and interesting study about food knowledge, global population problems, and isolation from nature. It is within that framework that the proposal is conceived. together with this interest in food processes the project critiques our actual use of the land: we usually don’t take into account that the most valuable arable land should be used for this production, not to increase urban areas. As a consequence, the authors structure the ter-ritory following farmland criteria, creating a city, which also produces food. Urban and rural bor-ders are erased. the outcome is a hybridized typology where food production is located at

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Urbedible emerged from the global food situation and the relationship between rural and urban – the food and city. We

have lived in cities for thousands of years, yet food is the source of our existence and the cit-ies we live in would not exist without farming. When the population is due to double in 2050, all the arable land on the planet will not be suf-ficient to cover our need for food. Yet the city appears to be independent from the land that feeds it. From a Swedish perspective, the rela-tionship between the food and the city is most relevant in the province of Skåne, where the arable land of the highest quality is found and where it also gets exploited the most. to reclaim exploited arable land into food production again is nearly impossible. the current growing city is transforming its surroundings into hardscapes (arable land turned into buildings or asphalt), which is pushing the food production further away from the consumer. Höganäs is surround-ed by two kinds of food sources; the arable land and the sea. currently the city is giving its front side towards the sea and turning its backside towards the arable land. When the food source is in another country, the food making process is controlled by a few large companies and the consumer meets food in car-bound shopping malls surrounding the city. It is necessary to involve all steps of food production in our cit-ies. thus to increase food knowledge, we need to localize the food chain and to prepare for the future.

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the ground level and domesticity is situated over it. this together with the inclusion of some other functions like business offices unfolds a chal-lenging arena. this co-existence of functions creates mutual benefits in economic, energetic, thermodynamical or health matters. What arises from this situation is a bigger concern about the whole ecosystem involved, and as a conse-quence a new community with different values is observed. Animals and plants are also inhab-itants of the dwelling. Humans and nonhumans create links between them. A bigger awareness of the exploitation of land is generated. In addi-tion, it has in educational concerns and tries to create a learning arena related to food produc-tion processes.

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We have not designed a single sustain-able Höganäs, but many sustainable Höganäses. First, the existing social

fabric is interwoven with reinvigorated ecologi-cal dynamics. the result is a sustainable urban-ity : a social-ecological landscape that restores the balance between urban consumption and production, and grounds all our spatial inter-ventions. Second, we address the resilience of such sustainable urbanity over time. We do not design impositions, but rather spatial opportuni-ties that nurture sustainable routines. We do not design compilations of pretentiously immutable sustainable technologies. We set Höganäs in motion towards a sustainable trajectory that is not resolved, but is adaptable and resilient.

the project works with the connection between humans and environments, in a frame where each of the parts can be more or less “wild” and grow in an intensely. the sustainability is understood here under spatial and temporal inputs and it has a strong interest in coexistence without domestication. It also works with a kind of archetypical nature, linked to romanticism. the authors, with a very theoretical position, deal with “harmonization”, an effect over the landscape similar to a snowfall but having the semi wilderness at your doorstep. this apparent contradiction is suggestive, as semi wilderness does not exist at the site… could it be a kind of synthetic semi wilderness ?

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

Before beginning to work the jury receives recommendations from the European Association.First, the jury shall study the projects that do not comply with the rules and decide whether or not to disqualify them.during the first session, the jury assesses projects on basis of : - their conceptual content - the degree of innovation according to the Europan 12 theme : the Adaptable city, Inserting Urban Rhythms.Between the two sessions a European comparative analysis arises from the preselected projects and constitutes a material for a European discussion with site representatives and jury members.during the second session, the jury assesses projects on basis of: - the relationship between concept and site; - their relevance to the questions raised by the topic and in nd particular to the issues of sustainable development; - the relevance of their programme to the general brief for their ndcc specific site; - their potential for integration into a complex urban process; - the innovative nature of the proposed public spaces; - the consideration given to the connection between housing and other functions; - the architectural qualities; - the technical qualities.the jury writes a report giving the reasons for its choice of winners, runners-up and special mentions in relation to the requirements of the competition and the concerned sites.

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The Kristinehamn site presents a fantastic opportunity to direct the future evolution of this lakeside town centre. Once a har-

bor, crucial to the survival of the town this cen-tral park may once again play a pivotal role, in the creation of local identity. the central location, the beautiful river Varnan meander-ing through the site, and the wooden build-ings of the old town on the other side, create great potential for the creation of a successful inner city park. the location of the site is very central. the site sits on a small peninsula with the river running on the eastern, southern, and western sides. the project site was once the location of the old city harbour. It is centrally located between the old town and a former industrial area. the southern part contains a park that has lost its purpose since the demo-lition of the public bathhouse. the northern part contains temporary parking areas, on old industrial areas. to the west there are housing areas, a sports arena, and the new harbour by Vänern, the largest lake in Sweden. One of the challenges is to create a good mix of functions, cultural and commercial, sponta-neous and planned, in order to attract people of all ages at all hours of the day. the task of the competition is to create a long term plan for the site to be part of this development. It is important that the connections between the physical and mental connection, as well as between the city centre and the commercial area, as well as the connections between the project site and the city centre are developed and strengthened.

topographic changes or bigger and more built interventions. In other cases, a more accurate acupuncture concerning squares, boardwalks or scenarios have been more subtly developed. One group has been deal-ing with economic dynamics in order to use the existing conditions of mixed use to bring the shopping mall as regenerator for a more intense city. And finally, some other proposals dealt with infrastructure, taking into account flooding problems, but also a whole ecosys-tem linked to a dynamic flow of water and try-ing to include identity and social exchanges. this last approach has been able to see in advance and successfully, possibilities in a broader field, increasing the complexity of the layers of urbanity.

concerning the adaptable city, this place has brought to the debate an interesting example. What kind of uses that the community already has can be implemented with small invest-ments? dealing specifically and mainly with public space, one of the main issues of this site, many proposals were able to answer this question. the considerations related to some informal urban spaces or voids of the city, and how they can be used to create a new identity of place or to reorganize the citizens move-ments, have been very rich. the proposals have tackled how to experience the city in an alternative way and how to bring new connec-tions. A group of proposals dealt with a more hedonistic enjoyment of the area by using water as a program resource, producing small

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Responsive System emphasizes dynamic processes, resilience and adaptation through time, reactivating both cultural

and ecological dynamics at the water’s edge, adapting to the fluctuations of the river and the lake. the project responds to a set of conditions – hydrological, urban, ecological – that charac-terize the city of Kristinehamn as it meets the river. Rather that proposing an isolated answer, the project identifies a system of urban voids that can be connected and activated within a responsive framework for ecological and urban change. the site becomes a fundamen-tal point of implementation of design strategies, a dynamic filter for water that supports a wide range of urban functions. the transition from riv-er to land is seen as a gradient from wet to dry, a gradient evident through time, movement, vege-tation, and in changing water depth. the design integrates storm water management in the urban landscape, catalyzing ecological systems, envi-ronmental benefits and recreational qualities while maximizing permeability through the site, allowing for multiple access points, structur-ing new connections between the city and the port. Moving beyond engineering, Responsive System envisions a blue and green framework that enhances public spaces at different scales, making water fluctuation and circulation clearly perceptible.

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scattered in the urban fabric. they will conform a new structure reconnecting city and port. the water, inserted in this clever way, right at the heart of the city will give a dynamic identity to the site as it includes water fluctuation as a main advantage. New social opportunities will arise in connection with this. Some parts will be flooded only seasonally and will allow specific functions in addition to the permanent ones. this ephemeral or time based articulation of the city events will also be supported by veg-

etation, enhancing the awareness of this urban ecosystem and its possibilities but also bring-ing oxygenation and purification to the water. A complex proposal that is successful under sustainable, ecological, urban and social con-cerns. It is a city where natural changes are also experienced in a hedonistic way. time rises, in this way, as the definer of the urban planning, perhaps more than space.

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Our story is not the result of a complete set of actions with a delimited range of time and space, but rather suggests a bound-

ary, leaving room for the present to be continu-ously created in and out of time. Using the land-scape as a unified background, we propose a demarcation that attributes a beginning and an end to the place. the project’s orientation and morphology refers to the existing landscapes, space, structures and networks. Aware of what is already there, we densify existing textures and accentuate through soft interventions the limits and character of the site. We propose a dispositif of activation, with minimal built struc-tures, and a series of operative voids, places for action – where we left space for natural growth and development. We begin by sewing down the two river banks with a soft loop. the Loop/ Ring/circle always holds a promise within. It becomes a form of understanding context – it is a dynamic structure that explains the centre and evolution of Kristinehamn. to be in the loop is a complex process which includes both the path/journey and the regions/events that it crosses. By connecting different strategic points in the city it assures a continuous flow of people and events. But being on this path does not neces-sarily entail having a final destination – a closed loop is an infinite tribute to time.

the project is very effective in its strategies. to draw just one circle as a landmark to know that a place has been created: a field of action. It works with a kind of archetypal definition of space used from ancient times. It deals with the recovery of anthropological roots and rituals. It unchains a direct connection to the establishment of a link between man and territory. It is in this sense that the circle, even if it is not complete, is perceived: through the citizens’ own body movements and synchronism. It develops a kind of new urban choreography, enriching the movement possi-bilities and the way one relates to the environ-ment in the city. the project also deals with the dynamics of the so-called “third landscape”,

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provoking a variable, through time operational field, through the enhancing of some site quali-ties. the project also raises questions about a curatorial understanding of the urban space. the “circle” is ready to host the diverse functions that the citizens need, either as a bottom up process or as a municipal suggestion. It would be the visible arena for the citizens’ expression. An almost informal space which can be build and un-built for every event with low investment of effort and big engagement with the identity of the community. this proposal would give birth to spontaneity and celebration of life ; to instant implementations of multiple cities, broadening biodiversity, social exchange and imagination.

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H aninge is located south of Stockholm, about 20 minutes by train. In order to solve the Stockholm region’s housing

demand, Haninge has been found suitable, together with 7 other municipalities, to meet that demand, primarily due to the railway con-nection to Stockholm. the project site area is the result of consistent car based planning ideals. It has a wide street running through it from north to south. West of the street there are six tall free standing apartment buildings. Behind the buildings the ground slopes down to the railway tracks. On the other side of the tracks lies the beautiful lake, Övre Rudasjön, and further beyond the lake a pristine natural landscape. this area is disconnected from Haninge by the railway. South of the apart-ment buildings lies the commuter railway station and next to it, a lot where a new bus station is planned. the competition task is to propose designs for buildings and landscape within the project site that can contribute in the development of a modern city centre. can the parkway, Nynäsvägen, be transformed into a vibrant city street by placing buildings along it ? How can pedestrian and bicycle traffic be improved ? there is a need for housing, and smaller locales and shops at street level. the large shopping centre today turns its back on nynäsvägen. How can commerce be attracted to this side of the facade, to open up and pop-ulate the street, and keeping it alive even after the centre closes at night ? can the parking lots with all the movement going on be used as a positive resource in a future development ?

a more human scale. A few open urban plan-ning tools, arose between the more successful projects : rules of the game to be able to provoke a change in the system. the combinatorial relat-ed to these rules is a great catalogue for future interventions in these kind of car dominated areas. the car lot was the urban basic unit and the starting point for something else. Some oth-er proposals dealt with the problems in a more conventional way, focusing their intervention in the variation of typologies and scales and this line of work was also successful in some cases ; when prejudices gave place to imagination. Just a few, dealing with urban space, were trying to reconstruct a rich taxonomy of city places.

this site raised, to the Europan arena, an espe-cially difficult questions. In general there were no projects able to answer all of them, but there were a collection of interesting initiatives able to open the field of possibilities. Here the creation of urbanity at the human scale was one of the main targets together with a kind of sensitive-ness to nature and the lakefront, creating con-nections in the east to west direction. the site was a wonderful laboratory test about adaptabil-ity : how to get a second opportunity for another kind of city when some levels of urbanity have collapsed ? In general, the participants under-stood that this has to be made in stages, chang-ing gradually the predominance of the car and giving room to more pedestrian domains and

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Through a well considered balance of ele-ments such as parks, housing, commerce and parking, the proposal aims to create

an urban environment that is distinctly inter-esting, contemporary and friendly. With the objective of creating a win-win for all parties, the social and economic incentives are gov-erned by the principal of giving back to society in terms of social qualities, while also creating a sustainable economic model. Flexible, yet dis-tinctive, rules will be the basis for this long-term social, economic and cultural development. the large scale of old Haninge determines the new areas, a smaller scale is used to diffuse it. When shifting between these modes, we can utilize the most from the program and offer a delicate web of commerce, offices, healthcare, education, recreation and parking. this gener-ates an urban environment that is flexible and vibrant in terms of ownership, typology, scale, activity, economy and social structures. Park-life will increase the amount of parking spaces, as the car will remain important for the future development of Haninge. the new parking are-as are well linked to commerce and dwellings but are relocated from street level to make room for a new lively city street. An environment with exciting encounters is created where there was previously ugly, unsafe and unwanted space. the different layers of the city are made visible and are integrated with the rest of life, parklife.

JURY’S COMMENTSthis project walks on a thin line between conventionalism and the invention of a new city, at least in the western Nordic context. the main interesting points are related to intensity and the mix of uses that are char-acteristics of urban life. they try to use the existing and not successful dynam-ics, dealing with them without prejudices, simply playing their role. Because of this reason the use of the car is even increased and the economical prof it of the operation is one of the points. But following this strat-egy the proposal reaches a very interest-ing and innovative question : the stacking up of dif ferent functions and owners in a three dimensional way, recently allowed by Swedish law, following a four rules series gives birth, with that unprejudiced

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way of working, to an urban reality which is especially vivid. In this city you could f ind a 24 hour environment where parking and sports, leisure and housing is mixed in a creative way. this creativity is a kind of heuristic toolbox, which seems to have more and more suggestions for the future use of the urban spaces. the four rules are concerned with ownership so it won’t be possible to build a whole block by the same investor as one developer can build only two units maximum, but also with height, size and combinatorial possibilities. this will give birth to a diverse city as regards urban space but also a diverse economy. A better explanation of the parklands and the connections to the lack would have been appreciated.

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The Nynasvagen road is the main parkway of Handen district, leading to the bus and train terminal. the issue is how to awaken

the potential public spaces that this urban axis represents. two main facts are heading the project : road infrastructure creating a physical barrier and a significant number of parking lots to be kept. to reduce the impact of this road, we propose to split it into two, which results in strong enlargement of the central reservation. the existing parking lots are moved in this new cen-tral island. New pedestrian movement is created by inhabitants and retail customers. As cross-ing becomes more frequent, pedestrian uses make use of the road infrastructure. the park-ing lots are organized into a simple and rigorous pattern served by the two sides of Nynasvagen road. this grid is the basis for the development of new functions on the island itself. Regular and temporary uses can spread in these parking lots. According to need, more permanent uses could be settled down on the island and benefit from the daily flow of people. the new buildings would be conceived to deal with the car park units on the ground. the shape of the island allows adaptation of the project regarding the involvement of the land owners. We also imag-ine that the need for parking will reduce during the process and that other elements of city life could eventually replace the parking lots them-selves, using the grid as the primary structure for a future development.

the proposal works directly with the main problems at the site: cars and urban life. the goal is to intervene in the infrastruc-ture creating an island amid the dif fer-ent sides of the circulation. through the organization of this island, in a f irst step as a group of parking lots, little by little this fabric will be able to change into a more complex urban situation. On top and in between the car lots, some other functions appear, the road is seen as a reserve for urban ground and facilities. the interest-ing point is that the car is not considered a barrier for social exchange but an oppor-tunity for new functions and city life. All new functions are car based but they can also work with a low presence of cars… the car is a kind of instant city program-mer. Some examples are “living garage

extra room”, connecting car and domes-ticity ; “drive in cinema”, mixing car and leisure ; or “car market” where the car is used as storage house… etc. On the other hand the creation of a strip is very smart, it will give identity to the place, which is exactly what is currently lacking, and turns around the direction of the movement in the area to go inside the island, as it is also now an interesting place to be. the proposal lacks some concern about the natural lakeshore and the general connec-tivity of the town. A further development of the possibilities concerning the rules to build in this site would have been appreci-ated. How would be the urban planning rules including parking lots, facilities and housing ?

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Can we build a city that reflects the plurality of our hopes and relationships? Haninge is an abstract gesture, a simple and mis-

leading division of life into constituent parts. It lacks the diversity of thought and intention that accrues in vibrant cities and places. We pro-pose a catalogue of interventions: some dra-matic, some less dramatic, that aim to stir up the neatly packaged functions of today’s Haninge. Five sequences of public spaces cut through the existing regimented linearity of Nynäsvägen and open up the restrictive confines of today’s shop-ping center. Each of these sequences has a dis-tinctive character; the Nature Bridge, the Market town, the colour canyon, the Market Garden and the Enchanted Forest. these sequences form a frame of public spaces between which the hopes and desires of individual actors can be constructed.

this project gives life to a very specif ic planning of every part of the site and it is very suggestive in the catalogue of urban situations that it is able to show. Perhaps there are even too many. But, looking at them not as a project but as collection of experiences, the configuration of these characteristic areas is a challenge con-cerning the possibilities of imagination about how our cities could be. It deals with a sensitive taxonomy of urban units : the “coloured canyon” or the “enchanted for-est” are examples of this. It is appreciated that these strategies include the lakeshore and try to reorganize in an ambitious way the urban space in multiple perceptive or more specif ically haptic dimensions.

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Sites such as this one usually provoke strong reactions, and calls are often made for their total destruction. the very same

impulse, one of disregard or even disgust for the existing, is exactly what the modernist planners acted on in the 60s, when historical Handen was demolished to make way for what is there today. the planners’ insistence on a tabula rasa was probably their biggest mistake, and it is some-thing we want to avoid repeating. In its total flat-ness, the site could be read as a perfect clean slate, ready to receive just about anything that the planners of today could imagine. But the white lines on the ground, even though they have negligible mass, actually constitute a sig-nificant cultural heritage, and they became the foundations on which this project was built.

More than a lot explore the possibilities of an urban development and planning based on the car park unit. Small inves-tors and small-scale business and public spaces are included within their frame-work, giving the proposal a sense of democracy and participation.. the urban process here is open-ended and it would need the continuous interaction of the municipality. Even if the lot unit maybe too small, the proposal unfolds a strong con-ceptual position, that can take advantage of the existing situation and conforms a transition to another kind of city, where almost every citizen can be an important agent. the outcome is a very creative set of situations with cohabitation of dif ferent functions.

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KKalmar is part of the Kalmarsund region which together with Växjö, Oskarshamn and Karlskrona creates an attractive

employment market region. the region’s pop-ulation is growing; one of the driving forces is the newly formed university. Linnaeus Univer-sity was formed in 2010 as a merger of Kalmar and Växjö Universities. the university is a driv-ing force for regional development attracting both businesses and an educated and high-ly-skilled workforce to the region. this is one of the reasons Kalmar needs more housing. the local landscape of archipelago, culture, meadows and buildings create the unique character of the region. the project site is limited by several factors; parts of it will be underwater in the future due to the predicted rise in sea levels. the question is how these areas can be developed for housing or rec-reational functions and still adapt to the new conditions. Other areas have very unstable ground due to ice age deposits of clay and detritus. European highway no. 22 divides the project site into two separate areas. this road will be converted, speed limit will be reduced and the road will be reclassified as a local city street with carrying capacities designed for different modes of traffic. the aim is, among other things, to show how the neighborhood can double the number of inhabitants and how the service and green structures can be developed in order to strengthen the specific seaside character. the task is to find a new structure and design that can suit the specif-ic values in the area: Kalmar has a beautiful nature landscape along the whole coastline. the city is not looking for a static master plan but rather a strategy to develop the area in stages, adaptable to changes that may arise underway.

with legs, some other include high-rise buildings or some other groups conform archipelagos of communities or collections of small cells. In these cases a beautiful imagination of dwell-ing has been developed. But it is also interest-ing that this last kind of intervention, has been able to resist the temptation about poetics of natural areas and has been working just with the untouchable landscape. the new housing development in this last case is related to the consolidation of the existing fabric, near the road 25, not trying to look for something related to the landscape but creating a strong urban position from where one is able to explore the preserved area whenever it is desired.

Kalmar adds another important issue in relation to the adaptable city. How can be the city adapt-able to climate change considerations? How to imagine an urban space, which will be flooded in the future ? And how to re-adapt the archipel-ago and urbanity ? these questions have given the opportunity for an array of clever and fresh visions of the site. Most of the proposals have taken advantage of the privileged area related to the bays and fjords, the sea and the archipel-ago, but also the woodlands in between. Maybe due to this , the typological richness is bigger here than in other places. the typologies have had the task of absorbing the rising of the water level and in accordance with that some of them become fortresses, some other are elevated

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Intervention in Kalmar is proposed from eco-nomic, social, environmental and cultural sustainability, through urban development

based on density and complexity, giving prior-ity to the conservation of the environment and the territory. this proposal is reasoned from : No construction, as respect for the territory and areas of high environmental value that consti-tute the identity of Kalmar. consolidating and protecting landscapes and existing voids, through a restructuring of communications, which redefine the main road as an integrative element: rural urban. Minimization, with criteria of minimal impact: energetic, environmental and visual of new constructions. A model of accurate intensive urbanism as opposed to an extensive one. complexity of the urban grid and in consequence enrichment of social links, through the diversification of uses and types. Reuse of spaces and existing infrastructure, reviewing and optimizing them. densification of the existing frame without getting away from human scale. Proposal of polycentric devel-opment, with the creation of new centers. For a real sustainable city, we would need to talk about one based on less energy needed by the system and more urban complexity.

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the winning project in Kalmar ask the question posed by the municipality once more. the proposal focuses in the den-sif ication of the already existing areas along the road instead of proposing new developments. Re-using and densif ica-tion are the main tools. the background of this decision is to keep the natural envi-ronment and wetlands untouched and to occupy the voids which exist in the urban fabric. these voids are analysed: the ones with woodlands are preserved and the rest are occupied with housing and com-mercial functions, making the road not a barrier but a social exchanger. Just as the border of the wetland is a pristine natural area to be enjoyed once you leave the city behind you. the project is very success-ful in its restrains, working in favour of the more sustainable city, the compact city, and taking care of the ecosystem. the project also concerns itself with urban space related to city life in the area, that is why the “road 25” is now considered “street 25”. Its scale is reduced and a more vivid exchange between citizens is created. New nodes are equally created, but following the philosophy of the project: big changes will not be made at once, but little by little through the total connection to reality and using its tools. the f inal out-come shows a dif ferent city growing from the existing one and with more diversity and awareness about the surroundings. Blocks, semidetached houses, shops, liv-ing areas and protected woodlands, eve-rything working to f it the human scale, are some of the pieces of the new develop-ment in Kalmar

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RUNNER-UPBOmBELEK

The main idea is an adaptation of its spatial and social aspects, including the existing natural conditions and probable scenario

adjustment. Each topic is specified at regional or local level. Voronoi diagram is a method of spatial subdivision. the regional level layout is based upon nature: native terrain preservation and emphasis, changing landscape adapta-tion, rural nature maintenance. Simultaneously, it is supported with some built environment principles: zone planning proposals, water transportation spots, waterfront-parallel land transportation system, business areas, agricul-tural hubs, existing housing expansion, region-al service network. the social aspect of the proposal brings: an age based housing profile with 1 500 dwellings and pro-community nest type habitation. Analogical spatial setup at the local level is once again is inspired by nature. It is reflected in self-adaptation to the water level rise scenario, waterfront public use and archi-pelago structure preservation. the layout con-cept is as important as some built environment proposals: clear zoning, native terrain based housing, maximum 200 inhabitant urban cells, topography-based urban interior, densification of the transportation network, pedestrian and automotive route integration and finally com-mon space as a public square and a water harbor. At this level the social aspect is empha-sized by not only 380 dwellings and natural new communities, but also by large scale open fields.

Bombelek proposal works with adapt-ability in two ways, the spatial one and the social. the project structures territory and communities with the help of a geo-metrical pattern. this pattern, almost the same in every part becomes something unique, as the territory is diverse in every location. Inside the embraced areas val-leys, f loods or slopes configure a specif ic demarcation in which to live. the eventual f looding of the area would work in favour of the housing type proposed. this demar-cation localizes a point in the geography and produces a specif ic sense of place. the communities developed around these areas of landscape enjoy a part of vast land related to a human scale. So, the f irst point in social adaptability is that this geo-

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JAKUB PUdO (pL)

EwA OdYJAS (pL)

KONRAd BASAN (pL)

AGNIESZKA MORGA (pL)

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CONTACT@BOMP.EU

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metric arena creates a f irst step of interac-tion inside every cell, but afterwards each cell is also interacting with the one beside, creating new relationships through time in dif ferent groups of connections. the rest of the wetlands and woodlands are given a soft structure producing a strong identity for the area. In general, what the project produces is an interesting imagination related to how to live in a natural area. First just marking pieces of landscape and progressively, through an appropria-tion process, making stronger connec-tions between collectivity and nature. the depiction of the collection of communities reveals an attractive poetic of dwelling linked to the everyday life little events.

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Climate change and consequent land-scape transformations are reshaping our waterfronts. the project for Kalmar

finds its meaning in the reading of these phe-nomena and establishes a resilient relation between urbanity and nature. the in-between landscape connects a new development and an existing one with the natural landscape. As the water level rises, the character of the land-scape will change and it will slowly transform over the next 100 years into a new waterfront. Around the landscape park, three unique and strongly defined parts are created. together with the existing neighborhood they form a stronger relationship to Kalmar, both spatially and cognitively. the proposal uses bounda-ries as the key element for negotiating relation-ships between private and public space. clear boundaries between landscape/neighbor-hood, blocks and plots create a framework that allow different kinds of housing typologies and individual buildings, and provide high qual-ity public space. the variation of plots in each block gives multiple possibilities for develop-ment, as some blocks might be fully built at once; others might only be developed to a cer-tain degree, leaving room for densification over time. Just as the conditions of the landscape will change due to geology and climate, condi-tions for buildings will change due to economi-cal fluctuations and cultural influences. the success of Rinkabyholm is about creating a resilient configuration that releases the quali-ties of the whole site, rather than emphasizing only one of its capacities.

three new strongly def ined neighbour-hoods are proposed with several in between landscapes amongst them. com-pactly designed, mixed use and varia-tion are the models for these neighbour-hoods. Even if the new settlements lack a greater specif icity in their outcome, they are linked on another level to the area. We can say that they connect with the “do-it-yourself ” culture and in that sense the stronger point is that it is not exclusivity that gives social diversity to the place. the project also concerns itself with design-ing a hypothetic waterfront, which would work as green front in the transitional years. the proposal, in this sense, is work-ing with the creation of permeable limits. Limits to delineate nature from city, water

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from earth and community from public space. the dif ferent stages of the imple-mentation proceed in this manner: f irst to def ine the borders, later on consolidate the whole neighbourhood. In some sense, the authors work with the idea of avail-able reserves, clearly distinguished from the rest. In addition to this conformation of city islands, the goal is to increase con-nectivity so the whole network of trails is enhanced, developed and transformed cleverly. the point seems to be work-ing with the quotidian and simple things. A city made out of ordinary everyday life events. the proposal is consequently not about giving a special identity to the place, but about enhancing a simple way of living.

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MARCO PUSTERLA (SE)

CONTACT :

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EDVIN BYLANDER (SE)

EMILIE DAFGARD (SE)

RENÉ ANDERSSON (SE)

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the project exercises a critical and cynical approach to our society and to the Euro-pan competition in a clever and humorous way with a dose of romanticism and fanta-sy. It could be read as a collection of labo-ratory tests where the conditions are taken to the limits. But this fresh explosion also gives the outcome of fascinating facilities and kinds of collective or isolated public spaces, working with virtual relations and hyperbolic depictions of our society. New and innovative re-readings of reality are produced. Paradoxically, it is possibly one of the most realistic proposals. the result-ing taxonomy of typologies enriches the possibilities of the existing playing f ield.

ANdERS BERENSSON (SE)

ULf MEJERGREN (SE)

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When the national psyche and the bor-ders of countries becomes less inter-esting and important, the citizens

start to make their own definitions of how they see themselves and what they want to belong to. this has led to a Europe that can be seen as one large country. With so many people that can easily move and communicate, a new mar-ket for people to join in physical settlements has been created. Settlements created for a common passion. these new dedicated set-tlements can be built anywhere in Europe even in the far distant Kalmar region. these settle-ments can also be architecturally more extrava-gant and utopian than architecture erected to please a local crowd. We have designed five forts where common love in a specific subject has been the main driver of the design.

Our proposal is built upon 10 strategies : Increase density of uses in the border of the new street ; Locate voids inside

the dense green area of the proposal ; Insert housing units minimizing ground area occu-pation and maximizing density with the con-struction of slender towers ; the approach to the towers far from the main street is done by reusing the existing paths so there is no need to build new streets ; Among the towers several paths join them; Why towers? As it is desired to reduce the impact of the proposal, the tow-ers seem to be perfect as they have more den-sity in less ground space ; the towers have a wide range of dwelling types to fulfill the differ-ent needs of the future inhabitants ; compact housing means compact infrastructure and service layout ; Free ground floor for gardening ; the proposal will create an attractive seaside with an iconic landscape.

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this proposal deals with tower typology in an attempt to implement an enjoyment of the landscape based on horizon observa-tion and minimum occupation. the slender high rise buildings are located in clear-ings in the woods, creating an alternative “wood” complementary to the existing one. towers are mix-use but are mainly dedicated to housing. At the lower level, a platform creates a sense of community in an individualistic spatial conf iguration. the process also considers stages, with quick and clean construction through pre-fabricated pieces. It is one of the few pro-posals dealing with height, giving inhab-itants a privileged position. the extreme slenderness seems dif f icult to be imple-mented without changes.

MARTA GARCÍA JIMÉNEZ (ES)

JUAN JACOBO GONZÁLEZ MUÑOZ (ES)

CRISTINA dOMÍNGUEZ LUCAS (ES)

fERNANdO HERNÁNdEZ RUANO (ES)

NAdIA MATEO dUQUE (ES)

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IMPLEMENtAtIONS the m ap shows the status o f the processes of the winners fr om E9, E10 and E11.

NUMBER OF PROPOSALS On average 33 proposals/site is handed in. the most popular site has been Karlskrona (E6), with 67 proposals.the E12 most popular site was Kalmar, with 49 proposals.

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”delta-x” Winner in Europan 11Ebba Hallin and Pelle BackmanProject site www.delta-x.se

delta-x is one of the more intriguing Europan winners in recent years. the site is a product of modernistic thinking, which is common-place in Sweden. Vast generic lawns surround the strict housing slabs Planning regulations dictate: separation, not mixing. the winning project questioned the structure of ownership and the right to take initiative. All land, along-side the street network and sanctuaries for wildlife, is divided into small properties, span-ning between 50 to 2000 square meters. the planning code for these plots is proposed to be Universal, meaning that the initiative taker decides if it will be an orchard, a tea house or a shoe shop, as long as he or she complies with law. the small-scale structure, which enables a number of smaller players, is central to the project and questions the mono structure of ownership, currently typical for these areas. the project also refers to a major tendency in Europe today to move from top-down planning procedures to bottom-up. the driving force for this tendency is mainly economic in south-

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ern Europe, whereas it is typically ideological in the northern latitudes. Some events have already taken place within the existing plans for the area and a plan program has been worked out together with the winners. If this dance of bottom-up and top-down initiatives can be brought to a conclusion, Norrköping will receive vast numbersof planning delega-tions from all around Europe.

Would you say that your project is politi-cal? If so, in what way?Yes, what urban planning projects would not be? Wind turbines? Motor ways? Nature reserves? In our project, many different man-ifestations fit side by side in a kind of direct democracy. Every piece of land is a means of realizing somebody’s imagination. Our project wants to include many different wills.

”Östhammars strandlinjer” Honourable mention in Europan 10Lotta Wersäll and Martin Styring

the completed project in Östhammar is the result of a process that changed direction from the initial plan. the initial plan for the competition, with a hotel as the crucial centre-piece, turned out to be too big and too risky for this small municipality, located slightly over one hour north of Stockholm. It was not pos-sible to find investors or developers to final-ize the project. Östhammars ambition, to give the city a closer relation to the sea, included an upgrading of the public spaces along the waterfront. Lotta and Martin were awarded an honourable mention for their proposal ”Östhammars strandlinjer”, which included an idea for the city park Sjötorget. the city of Östhammar commissioned Lotta and Martin to develop their ideas about the city’s histori-cal shorelines further and include a new plan in their proposal. the finalized work includes an upgraded park with new activities pro-grammed, new planting, two major public squares and new buildings for commerce. the now completed project is based to a large extent on the competition proposal. the new park was inaugurated in June 2013 with over 2000 of the city’s population present.

Your project is now built; are you satisfied with the result?We are really happy that the project is com-pleted in its entirety and that most parts are of very high quality. We are particularly pleased that the project has already had a positive impact on how the residents use the space.

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”Entré” Winner in Europan 9Liisa Gunnarson, Peter Morander andMaria Pettersson (photo)

A majority of the inhabitants of the island municipality of tjörn commute by car to Göte-borg on a daily basis. the municipality had the ambition to increase the percentage of com-muters travelling by public transport. Hence the needs for a new travel centre; a structure that could include a variety of functions such

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as an information centre for visitors, waiting room et cetera. Also a place to park your car and change to bus services. this infrastruc-tural node will be an important part of creating an identity for tjörn, as well as a pronounced entrance to the island, simply because it is the first thing that you see when arriving on the island. the winners proposed a realistic solu-tion that has been subject to further develop-ment since the competition. One of the team members was employed by the municipality for 10 months to refine the project and create an action plan. this has been done in close collaboration with the traffic planning depart-ment, since it is, in the end, much of a traffic problem. Workshops have been part of the process to hear opinions of the citizens and bring in new program needs. As it stands, a plan program has been worked out, that also includes nearby housing, and a detailed build-ing regulation plan is predicted to gain legal force within the coming year. Some construc-tion work has been carried out; a new bus stop and connecting traffic solutions.

In what way has the first prize helped you in starting your own business?“After winning I decided to start my own prac-tice. the first prize has brought a lot of atten-tion; also having a first reference project is crucial for getting new projects. And not least, the prize money created an economic plat-form initially.” says Maria Pettersson.

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”Green grid” Runner-up (shared) in Europan 11Karin Kjellson, Malin dahlhielm and Anna Edblom

”Greenish village” Runner-up (shared) in Europan 11Johan Ahlquist, Urban Skogmarand carlos Martinez

Malmö is an exception in the Swedish Euro-pan context. Whereas many of the site par-ticipants in Europe are private housing devel-opers that are about to develop an area, the Swedish sites are typically made available at the initiative of the municipality; mostly at very early planning stages. However, the clients in Malmö were MKB (a municipal housing com-pany) and Riksbyggen (a co-operative eco-nomic association), both housing developers. the competition area in Holma, an strip of emblematic residue after modernistic plan-ning, is currently profiting from the upgrading of several urban areas. It is now even named Holmastan – the Europan city. the jury chose to select two runners up instead of one winner, which lead to the two teams working in parallel after the competition. the whole Holma area is in an early planning stage and a commissions for a pre study has been given to the winners.

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Many housing areas, belonging to the modernistic heritage, face a transforma-tion ; what are the lessons learnt so farfrom Holma?Johan Ahlquist, Urban Skogmar and carlos Martinez : Our experience so far is that the prospects of Holma to develop as a commu-nity are good. Partly because Holma already has a green profile and partly because the construction of the city tunnel and develop-ment of the nearby Hyllie Holma have begun.

Karin Kjellson, Malin dahlhielm and Anna Edblom : to zoom out and find connections outside the actual area. that we focused on the larger scale in our competition proposal has encouraged the city of Malmö to take a broader view. In the end, it will link Holma much better to the neighbouring districts.

”derivé” Winner in Europan 10Marco Pusterla and Jesús Mateo

the municipality of Lerum, at comfortable commuter distance from Göteborg, could be said to be very representative of the compe-tition area of Europan today. Since the urban cores of all economic regions in Scandinavia experience problems, due to different rea-sons; to meet the housing demands the actual growth of these urban cores is found in the neighbouring municipalities, such as Lerum. they can typically never match the urban pulse of the region’s city core and therefore specialize in housing quality, to create the most attractive housing in the region. Lerum wanted to develop an area in Europan 10 pre-dominantly for housing, blessed with a water-front to give this new area some extra bling. the winning project, by Marco and Jesús, dealt, amongst other things, with the relation-ship to nature in a way that won favour with the

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jury. After the competition they got a commis-sion from the municipality to refine their pro-posal. the design has since led to a plan pro-gram ”Aspedalen och Aspevallen”, that has been politically ratified. the current status of the process is that a detailed building regu-lation plan is being worked out and the first meetings with the housing developers and the winning architects will take place in the near future.

Which was the main idea in your proposal and has it survived the process?the project derivé consists of an ensemble of strong characters in a beautiful place. the buildings are kept together and the nature is left untouched in order to maintain its char-acteristics. this idea has been the launching platform for the discussions thus far. It is a flex-

ible structure that can adapt to coming changes and we believe that it can make it all the way.

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