ENKÖPING (SE) PROJECT SCALE — L – urban + architecture
SITE PROPOSED BY — Municipality of Enköping
LOCATION — Myran, Enköping
OWNER OF THE SITE — Municipality of Enköping, private sector
POPULATION — 23,960 inhab.
POST-COMPETITION PHASE — Detailed development plans and
STRATEGIC SITE — 155 ha / PROJECT SITE — 71.5 ha
urban studies in collaboration with the municipality
Domagoj Lovas — Acting council architect, Municipality of Enköping 1. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE SITE MUTATION?
The main goal is to initiate necessary changes for Enköping’s longterm sustainable development and inclusive climate adaptation. Strategical changes will initially take place on the site’s Southern and Northern end, leaving time and space for the property owners and stakeholders in between to witness and evaluate positive changes that take place, see its effects and then plan for and start private initiatives with similar objectives. A positive chain reaction with everyone’s active involvement. 2. HOW CAN THE SITE BE INTEGRATED IN THE ISSUES OF PRODUCTIVE CITIES? HOW DO YOU CONSIDER THE PRODUCTIVITY ISSUE?
The site today as well as tomorrow will host various types of productive activities, which will be determined according to the site’s characteristics, to the demands on the market and in compliance with the development of services that are important for the social/ 78
economical system in general. The possibility for continuous productivity in Enköping in compliance with overall technological, economic and cultural development is a key issue that will be taken into consideration in every stage of the site’s development and transformation. 3. HAVE YOU ALREADY DEFINED A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION?
A development strategy and necessary processes for implementation of Europan are being formulated.
