Intertwining

from S.O.S. Climate Waterfront - Stockholm conference

by Elisavet Papageorgiou

Embracing

01 LÖV HOLM EN

Team members

Ana Neiva Elena Paudice Magdalena Rembeza Metha Bregman Nils Brattgård, Shea Nee Chew

Mending Nature and Memory

Lövholmen urban waterfront, a former industrial area in Stockholm, is challenged by three urban planning pillar sectors; economy, social and ecology. Rediscovery of urban tradition and cultural fundamentals and also bringing in tertiary industry can make it an attractive place, revitalizing the area and waterfronts.

In the area, people are active in various creative activities. Economic values are at stake: builders want to demolish and build new, while others want to keep unique buildings and industrial history for its special character. Then there is the need for decontaminating the soil. How can we combine key issues like, re-use of historical buildings, respect social identity, economics and sustainability?

We envision an artistic neighborhood, facilitating unexpected collaborations where artists, innovators and investors share in business revenues. Being an experimental area for art, business and technology, stakeholders work together because they share the same interests.

Drawing from the pre existing infrastructures, the masterplan mends local identity and memory, focusing on citycentre connections, a cultural square, housing, offices and commercial buildings that are intertwined to nature through green-artistic corridors and microclimatic areas. Street network consists of resilient and permeable areas, facing the risks of climatic change without compromising the safety of all residents.