Social Ecological Urbanism Design Studio 2021. Volume 1. Kära-Backa (Part 1). by Spatial Morphology Group

SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL URBANISM 2021 FINAL REPORT I VOL.1 I HISINGEN (PART 1)

Colophon Chalmers University of Technology Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering Social Ecological Urbanism Studio 2021

Course coordinator: Ioanna Stavroulaki Examiners:

Design studio ARK 142 Meta Berghauser Pont Tutors: Studio participants (Backa-Kära groups): Cornelia Ahlstedt Lina EL-Rifai Linnéa Forsmark Maja Lindroth Najoud Nanaa Karl Sandman Sarah Schoberleitner Matilda Svensson Yige Qin Tove Wik Linda Wirth Chunlu Zhu

Lars Marcus Ioanna Stavroulaki Meta Berghauser Pont Guest lecturers: Martin Allik, Mareld Landscape architects Johan Colding, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics Job van Eldijk, Chalmers/Rambol Alexander Gösta, Liljewall Åsa Gren, Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics Oskar Kindvall, Calluna Anna-Johanna Klasander, White Ann Legeby, KTH Lukas Memborn, Gothenburg municipality Eva Minoura, Sveriges Arkitekten Martin Nordahl, Okidoki Guest critics: Anna Olsson, Gothenburg municipality Anna-Johanna Klasander, Chalmers/White Julia Halldin, Mölndal municipality Evgeniya Bobkova, Chalmers

Contents Introduction

Group 1 Rebirth the city

General context & Vison Background research Masterplan Improve physical connections Re-strengthen mental connections Density of residential as connector

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Key projects Flood district (Sarah Schoberleitner) Directing streets (Linnéa Forsmark) Not a local place (Linda Wirth) Bridging the gap (Karl Sandman)

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Group 3 Shifting scales

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General context Masterplan Spatial analysis / Proposal Gentrification Comparison Key projects

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Key projects The green transition (Najoud Nanaa) Neighbourhood renaissance (Yige Qin) Link to green terraces (Chunlu Zhu) Group 2 Spongefication General context Main Challenges Masterplan Flooding Scenario Green Structure Landuse Connections Key projects Reflection

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Arödsgatan (Tove Wik) Meeting at “ours” (Cornelia Ahlstedt) The green spine (Maja Lindroth) Norra Avenyn (Matilda Svensson)

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Area 1. Backa-Kärra

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INTRODUCTION

Current global urbanization processes put acute stress on urban and ecological systems. The challenge is not only how to accomplish this, but also to determine which qualities we want to see emerge, which puts unprecedented expectations on urban planning and design and brings knowledge demands that these practices are not always well prepared for. This book presents the results of the Design Studio 2021 where students, in teams, developed five Masterplans for two areas in Gothenburg. Two areas are selected for the development of Masterplans. The first north of the river starting where the new bridge lands and links the city centre to Brunnsbo, Backa and Kärra. The second location is south of the river linking the city centre to Mölndal. The challenge addressed this year was to transform these disconnected and less dense areas into more vital and connected places, where besides socio-economic performance, ecological performance is also in focus. Social Ecological Urbanism Design Studio The main goal of the Design Studio is to strengthen students’ understanding of how urban form provides a framework and creates conditions for social and environmental processes. Theories and methods in analytical Urban Morphology, especially network analysis (Space Syntax) and density analysis (Spacematrix), are used to arrive at what can be called an evidence-based-design methodology. The studio is organised around a sequence of workshops, laboratories in GIS, lectures, literature sem-

inars and a design studio. Workshops give room for experiments, lectures transfer knowledge and offer inspiration, laboratories in GIS gave the technical knowhow to conduct advanced spatial analysis, literature seminars deepened the understanding and critical reading of theories and methods, which is synthesised on the Masterplans and key-projects. This year, the studio focused on both socio-economic and ecological sustainability. For this purpose, it is crucial to understand how urban form impacts people’s movement patterns and creates different arenas for people to meet, from local squares where it is more expected to meet your neighbours, to places with a strategic role in the city’s communication and where you can meet people from all neighbourhoods of Gothenburg. To be able to foresee movement flows and co-presence patterns is key to urban design and planning, as it is the driver for other economic activities, such as the development of local markets, but also for the development of social infrastructure, such as service from schools to public transport. To also address ecological processes, the green and blue infrastructure is discussed through the lens of urban ecosystem services, including both cultural services (e.g. recreational, therapeutic) as well as supporting and regulating services (e.g. pollination, biodiversity). Masterplan (group work) During the first seven weeks of the studio, five Masterplans were developed for two areas located in what is defined as the intermediate city in Gothenburg’s Development Strategy (2014) with potentials for densification. The objective in Gothen-

burg’s Development Strategy is to add 45 000–55 000 new housing within the entire intermediate city, which asked for a proposal that allows for such densification and at the same time improves social-ecological sustainability. We challenged the students to especially take into account the ambitions in the Transport Strategy of Gothenburg (2014) to supplementing the current radial infrastructure with cross-connections in what we can call a network city. This also includes its linkage to the Mölndal and developments here. This will relieve the inner city of Gothenburg, strengthen the qualities of Mölndal, reduce the vulnerability of the system and contribute to greater equality between city districts as well as to increased possibilities for integration of the city’s parts into one whole. Urban design project (individual key-project) During the second half of the studio, individual key-projects were developed. A specific objective for these projects is that they should, in a convincing way, demonstrate that they help realise the visions set out in the Masterplan. Furthermore, the iterative character of design is emphasized, where students test different design solutions, evaluate these using the analytical tools and adapt the design proposal for the plan to support the aimed for directions in the masterplan. Through the workshops and lectures, students are supported to arrive at a solution that supports the social, economic and environmental goals, though the careful design of streets, green and blue infrastructure, building types and public-private interfaces.

GROUP 1 REBIRTH THE CITY

General context & Vison Background research Masterplan Improve physical connections Re-strengthen mental connections Density of residential as connector Spatial analysis

Link to green terraces The green transition Neighbourhood Renaissance

Chunlu Zhu Lina EL-Rifai Najoud Nanaa Yige Qin

CONTEXT AND VISION

The designed area, marked on the map, is starting from Backa up to Kärra. The are is characterized by industrial buildings, heavy traffic and high-speeds, but also quiet green neighborhoods, and close proximity to the river. During the site visit we defined both challenges and potentials. In spite of the location along the river, the area has a poor accessibility to the water. and through our site visit we have experienced undiversed urban life and inefficient public transportation.

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There are three main vision for the future development of this area. The first one is to improve physical connections which includes the strategies of connected street strucutre and efficient public transportation. The second one is restrenghen mental connection which includes the strategies in relation to productive and recreational services. Lastly, the vision called density of residential as connector focuses on the neighborhoods and their connections. These will be explained in more detail in the upcoming pages.

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The map shows the proposed masterplan in relation to its surroundings. And our vision was to work with connections both global and local. Thicker brown arrows show the outer connection in form of highways.

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The thick red arrows show the highway E6 which in the proposal has been transformed into an urban main street. The thinner arrows show the inner connections through the site. and the dashed red arrows show the new added bridges.

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Context and vision

BACKGROUND RESEARCH |

We started off our design process with a background research. We have Looked into the history of the area. Which was mainly agricultural land during 1955-1967. Nowadays the area is including an industrial area located on the eastern side of the highway while the residential area is located to the western side.

History

Another background research we did was looking into facts of the communities. We have noticed the high unemployment rate in the surrounding neighbourhood. Our intention was to propose solutions to this issue through our design

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The pictures below are taken by us during our site visit. We have defined some potential, which you can see in the first two columns below, such as a nice greenery, charming view in the waterfront area, some existing community garden, start-up companies community and existing sport facilities. We have here as well a large market as destination for people.

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STRATEGIES | CONNECTIONS

To achieve the main idea “connections”, we formulated three strategies based on the experience of the site visit, background research, and the GIS analysis.

This means an increased focus on circularity, particularily in relation to the productive services in the area but also recreational and residential areas.

The first strategy is to improve physical connections. We want to connect the area to the city, connect both sides of the highway and both sides of the river.

Lastly, the third strategy was a density of residential as connecter, by adding more communities to connect the segregated communities.

The second strategy is Re-strengthen mental connections by creating a diverse urban life from working experience and daily activities to promote communications and interactions.

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MASTERPLAN | Urban design proposal

Current situation Residential Residential-Mixed use

The masterplan aims to provide the framework for the development of the area between Kärra and Backa to rebirth this part of the city in order to connect and integrate the disconnected and isolated neighborhoods. This is achieved through serval levels: the improvement of transportation and road structure, the transformation of productive areas, the diversification of urban life and the residential densification. These three strategies willIndustrial be discussed in more detail on the Public space area Social-green following pages. Public buildings Recovery and protection Unmanaged green

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The strategies Commercial seek to cater to the increasing population in Gothenburg, Oﬃces meet the needs of diverse urban life with various recreational services and provide a new pattern of urban fabric that also include the productive aspects of city, which takes the localized food production and urban farming into consideration.

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PHYSICAL CONNECTIONS | Change of highway

Change of highway The highway in the area is a part of highway E6, which is the main barrier for the communities and industrial area. From the site visiting experience, the first and deepest impression is the busy traffic of the highway, such as the noise from high speed vehicles, no crossing in a long distance, which became the greatest challenge for the designed area to solve. There is another highway E45 located close to the eastern riverbank, that has great height difference. The natural terrain cause very few facilities and activities around the highway. Therefore, E45 caused less impact on the living environment, which could be a great conddition to take advantage of in the design proposal.

Since we want to add more pedestrian crossings to access the existing industrial area, even the eastern riverbank, part of the highway in the design area needs to change. As the area is urbanized and developed, it is reasonable to lower the speed of the main street. As planned, from north of Kärra, the traffic of vehicles that are just passing by Gothenburg is split into E45, in order to maintain their needs of high speed, such as the heavy trucks for long distance delivery. While the vehicles whose destination is Gothenburg can drive through our designed area and enter the city centre.

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PHYSICAL CONNECTIONS | Process of adding bridges

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Street structure The highway in the design-area is trasformed into a transit corridor where vehicles drive at the speed of 30 km/h. The six lanes are kept in order to take care of the traffic, but with the design of some distance to pedestrians road and the addition of midplatforms for public transportation stops. There are also secondary streets for the bus and transportation of products and produce. These roads allow the speed of 20 km/h. Additionally, there are living streets that allow low speeds for vehicles in residential areas and are mixed-use. To connect the neighborhoods, two bridges are added with a more direct route to the eastern riverbank. The middle one is for both cars and pedestrains, while the other is pedestrian only. Street network

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PHYSICAL CONNECTIONS | Sections for streets

Walking-friendly streets The sections for the different hierarchy of streets, show the different partitions and widths. These sections also indicate the changes of first priority from cars to pedestrians, in order to create a walking-friendly environment for the public and a qualitative living surroundings for the residents.

The secondary streets are planned based on the existing main streets of the industrial area and communities. We add more bus stops to lead them form a circular routes, in order to create a more efficient public transport in the designed area. In addition, the living streets take the pedestrians as the first priority, where the locals and non-locals could have more opportunities to have communication and interactions.

The urban main street remains the longest width, which ensures the busy traffic with 6 lanes for vehicles. We also add a tram line to have better connection to the pulic transport. With long distance between pedestrian road to driving road, people could have a safe and comfortable walking experience.

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PHYSICAL CONNECTIONS | Spatial analysis Comparison | Network Betweenness (5k) (Motorized) The betweenness analysis in 5k shows that the current connection between both riverbanks is relatively poor.

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PHYSICAL CONNECTIONS | Spatial analysis Attraction Betweenness (3k) Street to public transport stops With this analysis you can see that we achieve the goals of making this urban main street as a central spine for the designed area. And as you see in the analysis to the right our intention was to connect the inbetween segregated area, which we think it work well with our proposal.

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RE-STRENGHTEN MENTAL CONNECTIONS | Productive services

The area in the current situation is a big scale, industrial and monofunctional area. Most services are similar to each other. As you can see in the pictures, the area is filled with big industrial buildings, asphalted areas and is highly car dependent. One major benefit to this is the jobs that these industrial services provide. The aim with the masterplan is to diversify the productive services and move them from the more industrial nature to a food producing operation. We can utilize the big scale for both indoor and outdoor agriculture. The existing warehouses can be used for storage. Similarly, the preserved logistics can be used for transportation both locally and globally in Gothenburg city. This creates an economic loop, where the urban farming can be locally processed and stored, shipped through local

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transportation companies, and provide food and services to the residents. The waste from these services, like restaurants, can then be re-implemented as compost for the local farming. As you can see, many of the functions have changed to something outside the scope of productive services. The new productive services consist of indoor and outdoor urban farming, warehouses and industrial areas related to food processing. One important thing to note is that parts of the original area is preserved to keep the diversity as well as keep allowing start-up companies to operate. Another thing that is preserved is the logistics that is used for transportation of the new urban agriculture.

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PRODUCTIVE SERVICES | Zoom-in

The aim with the masterplan is to diversify the productive services and move them from the more industrial nature to a food producing operation. We can utilize the big scale for both indoor and outdoor agriculture. The existing warehouses can be used for storage. Similarly, the preserved logistics can be used for transportation both locally and globally in Gothenburg city. This creates an economic loop, where the urban farming can be locally processed and stored, shipped through local transportation companies, and provide food and services to the residents. The waste from these services, like restaurants can then be re-implemented as compost for the local farming.

outdoor agriculture utilize wetland adapted crops and is also part of the strategy to take care of the flooding risk. The indoor agriculture creates a buffer zone that isolates the noise from transportation. The urban farming supplies the residents as well as the restaurants and shops with fresh food. The close proximity of everything cuts down on carbon emissions due to transportation. Lastly, the food waste is re-used as compost in the urban farming.

This is a more in-depth map of how the economic loop could potentially work. The existing logistic companies store and transport the food to different places in Gothenburg.. The

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Diverse urban life This part of the strategy consists of increasing and diversifying the recreational services with a focus on gardening. There is a scale of private to public where the private services consist of allotment gardens where each household has their own plot. The semi-public spaces consist of urban green commons shared by a community. The public services consist of greenhouses with cafés and workshops where a lot of different people can meet.

erbanks to have a diverse and nature-friendly urban life, more opportunities to meet, while communicating and interacting with each other, in order to make all neighborhoods more social inclusive.

Based on the current problems, situation and spatial analysis, we distribute different recreational functions. The green hiking routes connect different kind of attractions in the area, also to the eastern riverbank. We want the residents from both riv-

There are flooding risks and landslide risk in the industrial area, the map showing the flood flow with 1030 m^3/s indicates that some industries along the river will be exposed to the water. So, we decide to recover the most affected area into wetland with wetland-adapted vegetations.

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Recreational services | Masterplan

ZOOM-IN | Recreational service 1

From the 5K angular integration analysis we know that the zoom-in nr.1 has a relatively high centrality, also because it’s the geographic center in our area, which acts as a meeting hub for local and non-local Gothenburgers. Here we have public buildings with cultural and recreational functions, such as library, cinema, galleries. Public green parks provide good accessibility to water. |Indoor farming area with shops, provide fresh food to the neighborhood and the public. Shops, restaurants, cafes with outdoor sitting areas on the first floor of the residential areas, create a vivid and dynamic atmosphere.

In the zoom in nr.2 we can see a green spine with different functions such as community gardens, green commons, and recreational green areas. The quarry is transformed into a large park with sport facilities. There are greenhouses with workshops and cafés, for knowledge exchange and educational propose. Farmers markets on the public square, where food from gardens can be exchanged and sold. There are some preserved commercial facilities along the social street used by the public and residents for communication and interaction. These green areas provide a number of functions to the public as well as nature like pollination, habitats, organic produce and education opportunities.

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We propose to plan residential area in the gap to connect the isolated community to make it a continuous neighborhood. According to the angular integration of 5k analysis and refer to the block typology, we determined the GSI. Commercial area along the main street can have closed block with high density with GSI of 40-60 precent. Residential-commercial area along the main street with GSI of around 30 precent, can have closed facade facing the main street to prevent the noise from traffic, open block near secondary street and living street to improve social integration and communication. Residential area away from the main street with low GSI can have a more open form with more green space.

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In the area with relative high centrality, we have high density neighborhood with high GSI, in the area with low centrality we can plan some residential area with open forms, with low GSI. The new design area includes up to 25,000 new dwellings with the capacity of 48,000 new inhabitants. GFA: New residential area: 1006012.2-2425694 m^2 New dwellings: 10060-24257 New residents: 20120-48514

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“The green transition” From an industrial area to a lively residential green area

“Neighbourhood Renaissance” The project aims to create a functional, self-supportive and vibrant neighbourhood with productive aspect which will promote local circular economy and diverse social life.

“Link to green terraces” Working with connection between two riverbanks with socialecological services, where have certain flooding risk.

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THE GREEN TRANSITION NAJOUD NANAA From an industrial area to a lively residential green area

GENERAL CONTEXT Problem description

The area in the current situation is a big scale, industrial and monofunctional area. I have defined the transformed area in the key project into two categories: the industrial area and the hill which is a quarry. Or one could say in other words a built area and non-built area.

promote communications and interactions. My focus was on the recreational services and the residential structure.

A series of decisions and rules have been made during my work on the key project, to confront or lessen the challenges that we defined during our group working, such as undiversified urban life, monofunctional area, almost no recreational activities, lack of connecting infrastructure.

Re-strengthen mental connections

During my work I focused on “Re-strengthen mental connections” strategies by creating a diverse urban life to

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As you can see in the pictures taken from the key project area, most services are related closely to one another. The area is filled with big industrial buildings, asphalted areas and is highly car dependent.

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This part of the strategy consists of diversifying the recreational services based on the level of control and level of capacity. In addition, these recreational services in form of green typologies have been sorted into two categories based on their function.

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THE GREEN TRANSITION | Urban design proposal

A series of decisions and rules have been made during my work on the key project, to confront or lessen the challenges that I mentioned earlier. A housing structure and mixed-use structure been designed. The housing structure have a more closed form near to the main street. and a more open form The closer you are to the hill “ recovered green area“

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A series of rules for the new densification were designed to confront or lessen the challenges that I mentioned earlier. The housing structures have a more closed form near to the main street. This housing typologies in such this location generate two levels of territorial use, which is public and private. While a more open form the closer one is to the hill “recovered green area“

informal side with balconies while the formal side of the buildings with entrances or “front side” is facing the street or in a clear and easy access to the point of view of the street. The open part of the courtyard fenced with bushes. space is articulated contribute to legibility, which will make it obvious to the people in these context how the spaces produced are to be used (Minoura, 2015).

Residential-commercial area were designed along the main street or the area with relative high centrality have closed block, with a courtyard not exposed to the gaze of non-residents. Controllable places, such as smaller and more enclosed yards, appear to evoke a larger sense of ownership than huge open spaces, which are therefore utilized more frequently (Minoura, 2015).

Residential area away from the main street with low GSI can have a more open form with more green space. All housing buildings in the key project area have a green element in form of a green rooftops or green balconies. The section shows the relation between the courtyard and street to building´s height.

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The main function of the greenhouse is food production. The structure of the twostory contains a greenhouse with a green farm at the top. A fish farming, storage and store for the crops at the bottom floor. The Greenhouses are located centrally in the key project area and it embraced the market space on the public square, where food from gardens can be exchanged and sold.

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THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE HILL “THE RECOVERED AREA”

The hill is a quarry which will be transformed into a large park with sport facilities. The transformation will take place into two phases. The first phase consists of bringing the pollinators and creating a good environment for them. This will take place on the edges, which is the hard area to grow food on it since it is steep. The second phase is to make use of the rest of recovered area and transform it into a large green area with different recreational services such as sports facilities, walk and jogging paths, hiking trails. In addition, a part of the northern recovered area, well sun conditioned, is specified to the allotment garden To take care of the water, due to the height difference on the hill, having a pond is a good idea to handle the running water and it is Great for leisure activities

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Cultivation opportunities are better in the northern half because it will be mostly sun and heat there. In the south it can be more shady especially in the spring

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NEIGHBOURHOOD RENAISSANCE YIGE QIN My project aims to create a functional, selfsupportive and vibrant neighbourhood with productive aspect which will promote local circular economy and diverse social life.

Problem description

Problems and challenges: The industrial area from Backa to Kärra is now a grey monofunction area with industry, companies and big sclale retails. People are coming to this area only for work, restuarants are only open for lunch, after 17 o’clock and on the weekend is the area a “ghost area”. There are sereral neighbourhood surround this indusrial area which have relative high unemplyment rate.

eas have high unemployment rate. Historial background: looking at the historical background of this area, here was mainly agricultural land during the 1950s and 1960s.

The social life here is lacking because of the monofunction character. The river is not accessiable, there are also flooding risk and land silde risk. There are already some small business and start-up companies’s community, which have a good potential to develop.

In my proposal, I choose to focus on productive perspective and divers social life. The key project aims to create a functional, self-supportive and vibrant neighbourhood with productive aspect which will promote local circular economy, create more job opportunities, and diverse social life.

The masterplan’s aim is to redesign this area and connect here to the exsiting neighbourhood and Gothenburg city, both phisically and mentally.

The background research about facts of the communities shows that in the surrounding neighbourhood of our design ar-

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NEIGHBOURHOOD RENAISSANCE | Context

The masterplan aims to provide the framework for developing the area between Kärra and Backa to rebirth this part of the city to connect and integrate the disconnected and isolated neighborhoods. This is achieved through serval levels: the improvement of transportation and road structure, the transformation of the productive area, the diversification of urban life and the residential densification. These seek to cater to the increasing population in Gothenburg, meet the needs of diverse urban life with various recreational services, and provide a new pattern of urban fabric that includes the productive aspect of city, which takes the localized food production and urban farming into consideration. My key project will work with the local circular economic loop, translate the local circular economy diagram into spatial planning, and design an urban area that supports the circular economy. The focus will be productive services and diverse urban life.

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The second vision is the vibrant neighborhood. Different building types allow different living conditions, housing for single, small family, big family, and different needs, for instance, social housing, elderly housing, housing with workshop and atelier. In addition, various urban facilities are located on the ground floor, for instance, local healthy living center, kindergarten, community center, which with different outdoor activities to create a functional neighborhood and increase social connection and interaction. There are four strategies to support the visions, starting with the street hierarchy, the spatial distribution and connection of functions, integrating urban facilities and activities into the neighborhood, and finally, the connected neighborhood for social-ecological connection.

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There are two visions for the key project, the first one is the self-supported neighborhood to promote local circular economy. The mixed typology of buildings and various spaces allows for different production kinds. From food growth to products processing, selling and consuming, local and global distribution, and recycling, reuse, and recreate. Looping the local circular economy can also provide more job opportunities in this area. In addition, linking the productive perspective back into the neighborhood makes transportation more efficient which can reduce co2 emissions and promote trades in short distances.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD RENAISSANCE | Urban design proposal

My proposal aims to create a functional, self-supportive and vibrant neighbourhood with productive aspect that will promote local circular economy and diverse social life. The project will work with local circular economic loop, translate the local circular economy diagram into spatial planning and design. My main focus will be productive services and diverse urban life. The key project was influenced by the article “The grid as generator” from Leslie Martin. “Net or grid affects the possible building arrangements on the land within it, is fundamental to any reconsideration of the structure of existing towns. The pattern of the grid of roads in a town or region is a kind of playboard that sets out the rules of the game. The rules outline the kind of game; but the players should have the opportunity to use to the full their individual skills whilst playing it”.

network. Then, based on the spatial analysis, according to the centality, define different types of streets. The second step is to determine the land use and find suitable building typologies to support the land use and then locate them into the street network. The next step is to define the urban rules and create different degrees of privateness and publicness to make the urban block alive. After finish the planning and design process, we get a urban machine that can generate and support local circular economy and diverse urban life. At the end of the key project, I will explain how the proposal would support visions and how the urban machine functions by 3 flows: productive-economical flow, social-community flow, and ecological flow.

The design logic is as follows: at first is to determine the street

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Here we have four major land-use parts with different characters: The residential functions together with commercial and urban activities. The large scale retail and offices. The preserved industrial area for start-ups, small businesses, food production, and logistic. The open green space for urban farming and recreational services.

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The street network will start to function with the support of the building structure. The next step is looking for building typology related to street types and supporting different land use. For instance, residential with first-floor commercial and urban facilities. Small scale housing with workshops or ateliers. Larger scale for indoor farming, markets, commercial retail, and offices.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD RENAISSANCE | Axonometry

According to the street hierarchy, different types of building forms can be distributed on different streets. Near busy commercial streets and neighborhood-high-street can have closed building forms to create a sense of urbanity. Near quiet residential streets can have open structures, such as L-form enclosures or row houses to have more porosity.

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For the public good, a public alley inside the courtyard guides the movement through each block to increase the connection between blocks. For the club good, use height difference, low fence, and small communal buildings as dividers to create a sense of ownership. For the common good, the active ground floor facing neighborhood high street will have urban facilities and commercial functions. The common gardens attached to urban facilities in the courtyard provide different activities for residents. They will be managed and maintained by urban facilities.

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For the private good, use trees and bushes to enclose private backyards and prevent direct sight connection through private space.

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The section cutting through courtyards shows the proportion of the built structure and the open space. The street perspective shows the spatial quality of public space in the neighborhood. The recycling square provides space to promote the vision of recycle-reuse-recreate-reproduce. In addition, the outdoor areas of restaurants and cafes make the public space more attractive.

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NEIGHBOURHOOD RENAISSANCE | Productive-Economical flow

The productive-economical flow aims to shift the linear consumption activities to a circular loop with diverse productive services to become a self-supported area. Urban farming-food processing flow: We can utilize the preserved big-scale building and land for indoor and outdoor agriculture. In addition, the existing warehouses can be preserved and transformed into food processing factories. Consume-commercial- delivery flow: The locally produced fresh food can be sold to local stores and restaurants to provide a healthy diet for local residents. In addition, the preserved logistics can be used for local and global transportation in Gothenburg city. Food waste-composting flow: The waste from households restaurants can then be re-implemented as compost for local farming. And the waste also can be burned in the local CHP, heat and power factory, convert to heating for neighborhoods. Recycle-Reuse-Recreate-Reproduce: We also have small businesses and start-up companies communities, except for food production. The productive neighborhood with in-house workshops and the public square for resource sharing and material exchange supports the flow of Recycle Reuse - Recreate - Reproduce, which can provide jobs, support the local circular economy, and strengthen the spirit of community. In addition, the non-reusable can be collected into CHP to convert into heat for the area. Legend Small business, start-up companies Composting site

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Social-Community flow The chart shows 3 different scale of social flow. The first one is within the neighborhood, there are different spaces for activities in each block, local residents can stay in their own courtyard or move from each others’ block to communicate, children can play around, which can increase social integration. The second degree is for the whole neighborhood area. There is a bigger scale green open space with a greenhouse, allotments, urban green commons, and natural wetland park for recreational activities, where you can meet more people than in your courtyard. The third degree is that in public spaces for commercial activities, for example, front areas of shops, cafes and restaurants, both local people and people from other neighborhoods in Gothenburg can meet each other.

Legend Local social flow within residential blocks Urban green common and park for whole neighbourhood Social-commerical flow for local and global Allotment, urban farming, park, nature Neighbourhoods Commercial

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NEIGHBOURHOOD RENAISSANCE | Ecological flow

Neighbourhood scale ecological flow: The greenery and gardens in courtyards can support the local ecological system, flowers, herbs, and fruits are food for pollinators and animals, trees and ponds provide shelter and water for wildlife. Local scale ecological flow: Those small patches of greenery in courtyards are connected to a bigger scale green nature area to the river, which becomes a connected landscape, where the wildlife and pollinators also move around and thrive. Globel ecological flow: This green space functions also as a link to connect large green spaces on a global scale, It is important to make the ecological landscape and green infrastructure connected to support the ecological system, which can also benefit our own health and well-being.

Legend Neighbourhood scale ecological flow Local scale ecological flow Global ecological flow, connect bigger scale green space. Green courtyard Public green space Nature, Wetland Farm

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The network betweenness and angular integration of the non-motorized network indicate the street hierarchy. The urban main street, commercial street, and neighborhood high street have high centrality, while the courtyards in residential areas with low centrality will remain quiet. The walking alley through each block has a middle level of centrality, which means that residents in the whole neighborhood will visit each other’s courtyard, communicate, and have better social interaction. “Neighborhoods will be open, varied, egalitarian, and connected places, providing more choice, opportunities, and beauty, but also promoting health and ecology.” (Hugh Barton, 2010)

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LINK TO GREEN TERRACES CHUNLU ZHU The aim of this project is focus on how to link the existing communities and the riverbanks in the east of Karra, where have certain flooding risk. Also,in my project I also thought about how to link eco

Problem description

Background The aim of the link to green terrace project is to think about how to realize the goal of re-strengthening mental connections from water accessibility while facing the flooding risk, and create multiple links from both eco and social perspectives along the riverbanks in our masterplan of Backa-Kärra. A type of intervention in riverbanks This part is dedicated to review the whole waterfront design for accessibility to riverbanks in our masterplan. We planned different ways of approaching the riverbanks, the black-dot frames show the basic types of waterfront design: large riverside decks as public squares, recovery and protected wetlands,

and public parks. With different types of intervention to riverbanks, we could create multiple meeting places for people and animals, also working as continuous habitats and perches for multiple species to live and travel along the river. Site of the project is located in the field near Kärra as the reddot frame shows, where is identified to have certain flooding risk. Therefore, we designed this waterfront area as recovery and protected greenery in the materplan. However, it is still unclear that how the wetlands could work as the flooding mitigation measures, while the links from existing communities to the riverbanks need more detailed design.

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The site is located in the east of Kärra, the connection of the community to riverbanks is cut by the highway and this originally industrial area. Under water flow with 1400 m³/s, there will be some warehouses and waste dump area exposed to the water, which is designed as recovery and protected area in the masterplan. From the experience of site visiting, There is a separate commercial center for the residents in Kärra, which also works as a social street to link the large green ground. This kind of social links could work as an attractive guidance for people. In the south of Kärra, I discovered an interesting path along a small creek with large trees, which could be a great linking start from Kärra to the site.

Street with recreational and green elements Space with recreational and green elements Outdoor space for restaurant Small creek with large trees Commercial center Highway Industrial area Waste dump area Flood line under water ﬂow with 1400 m³/s

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According to the outlines of the flooding area under water flow with 1400 m³/s, I decided the baseline of the lifted terrain, in order to resist the flood. Green space in multiple layers shows the concept of “green terraces“, which is designed for multiple degrees of intervention to the recovery land, while creating meeting space for the public and animals. The final step is to create multiple green and social links to the green terraces, which also create the connection of both riverbanks as well as existing communities.

Flood area under water ﬂow with 1400 m³/s Designed green edge Green space in multiple layers Communities Green links Social links

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LINK TO GREEN TERRACES | Urban design proposal

The project is located in the field near Kärra, which is the northernmost part of our masterplan. As the angular integration analysis in 1k shows, this area should be more focus on the local scale for the connection between communities, which could serve as a large social attachment area for the neighborhood. Of specific importance to architecture and urban design is Gibson’s discussion about how the structure and shape of the environment creates what he famously has called affordances (Gibson, 1986) This key project aims to improve co-presences of all species in urban space, thus increasing its affordance. A major consideration in the project is for the proposal to create multiple links for residents and the public to reach the waterfront area, which could contribute to build diverse urban

life for people and promote communications and interactions between people as well as the wildlife. As the map of flooding risk shows, there will be certain flooding area along the riverbanks. Flood is a threat, but also could be an opportunity for people to meet different creatures. The “green terraces” strategy is aimed for flooding mitigation while searching for multiple possibilities for the public and residents to meet the wildlife, even under flooding situation. “Movement is essential”, green and social links work as both visual and accessible connections for people to travel from natural greenery to communities, which could also serve as eco corridors for the wildlife.

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The green area to the west of the baseline is defined as the first “terrace” and serves as meadow, playground and public parks. The terrain is lifted to resist the flood.The second “terrace” is close to the bridge, where will be a lot of flow of people, and allows for more intervention on the riverbanks as wetlands with ponds and wooden platforms. The third “terrace“ is designed as marsh area, lower terrain could provide multiple habitats for animals.

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In common situation, the public could have communication and interactions with each other and meet wildlife on the whole green terraces. Under flooding situation, the ponds could hold flood water for retention, and people still have accessibility to water and see different species of wildlife.

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Private backyards • clear boundaries (fence/ bushes) • possible visibility • no accessibility

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Green spine along the small creek starts from the south of Kärra, linking to the south new-designed residential area and the first green terrace. Large trees extend to the greenhouse area and new-designed residential area in the north, while ending in the green hill. Green links work as the connections from natural greenery to courtyards and communities, which could also serve as eco corridors for the wildlife.

• possible boundaries (fence/ bushes) • sufficient accessibility • needs for privacy (limit visibility)

Open courtyard • privacy & openness • sufficient visibility & accessibility • feel inclusive & owned

Green links Rows of large trees

Permeable courtyard • sufficient privacy • low visibility • still publicly accessible

Creek links Rooftop garden Courtyard Public square Sports ground

Large enclosed courtyard • community-owned sensation • multiple activities • low visibility & accessibility

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Refer to the analysis of angular integration in 1k as well as the masterplan, we could determine various functions along different kinds of streets. The preserved warehouses could be transformed into multifunctional buildings for the public and residents, such as nursing homes, sports center and green houses.

Urban main street Secondary street Living street Pedestrian bridge Commercial Residential Green houses Sports Preserved buildings

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For better integration to the existing communities, the heights of the buildings could meet the principles of “terraces” as well, which also indicates low heights for all newly built houses. Based on the street hierarchy and surroundings, the height of the houses decreases from the main roads to the secondary roads, water-front and green areas, thus ensuring visibility to the river and greenery.

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Social links are aimed to create a walkingfriendly environment for residents and the public. Different building types contribute to form an inclusive and diverse walking experience for the pedestrians, while ensuring visibility to the riverbanks for both the residents and passers-by.

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Section A-A’ housing along the creek

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Since the project focus more on a local scale, biking could be a very practical way to get around. According to the 3k attraction betweenness analysis of green spaces, the added bike lanes could provide better access for residents and the public to travel around the area, while reaching the other side of the river for attractive greenery and beautiful views along the way.

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Green terraces The ponds could form a lot of wildlifefriendly habitats for different species, while the subtle topographic variations could provide the opportunity for the public to interact with the wildlife.

Sunny days Under flooding situations, the ponds could hold flood water for retention, while the wooden platforms could still provide publicly accessibility to reach the water, thus communicating with different species of animals.

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