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The new Årsta field. It is our conviction that the city can only be transformed through addition, modification, mu- tations of what is already there. Our recent urban planning assignment for the Årsta Field in southern Stockholm challenges present-day issues of sustainability, urbanism, integration and urban living. Our aim has been to create a neighbourhood characterised by variety, humanity, non- uniformity and the makings of a sustainable urban society.
The currently ill-defined field is transformed into a natural city park – a new epicentre – integrating the surrounding neighborhoods. The natural topography of the field is accentuated to form an over 600 metre wide shallow bowl, with a crust of public activities and access points at the perimeters. On each side around the field, we are proposing a mixed development – housing, workplaces, services and commercial facilities – with clear connections over the field.

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The Jury’s Motivation : “Årsta Händer is an inspiringly fresh proposal, beginning and empathising with an idea of future urban living and people’s values and everyday reality. There is much inspiration to be gained from the park scheme and its practical and/or educational content.” Per Kallstenius Chairman of the Jury

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With the proposed constructional, typological and programmatic overall renewal of a modernist residential neigh- borhood, we make it clear that the inheritance of modernism must by no means be seen as something complete or finished but, like every other urban fragment or building, can be appropriated by its successors.

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ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE TEAM
Habiter Autrement / SKA / LOLA
Mia Hägg (Mandatory) / Sunkoo Kang
Jennifer Schmachtenberg / Johanna Jarméus
Team: Max Koch, Hiroko Kusunoki, Lina Lagerstrom, Anna Lundvall, Hildegun Nilsson Varhelyi
CONSULTANT TEAM
Structural and Traffic Engineering: Structor
Climate and Sustainability Consultant: Transsolar
Images: ROBOTA

© LOLA arkitektur & landskap . Published on March 24, 2009.

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© LOLA arkitektur & landskap . Published on March 24, 2009.

© LOLA arkitektur & landskap . Published on March 24, 2009.