Sustainable Urban Recycling 2021 by Sustainable Urban Design

2021

Sustainable Urban Recycling | Autumn 2021

Sustainable Urban Recycling

Sustainable Urban Design Master’s Program

School of Architecture Lund University Autumn 2021

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2021

Sustainable Urban Recycling

Sustainable Urban Design Master’s Program

School of Architecture Lunds Tekniska Högskola Lund University P.O. Box 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden +46 46 222 00 00 www.stadsbyggnad.lth.se

AxSUD

Ax:son Johnson Institute for Sustainable Urban Design Lund University

Book Editor

Teresa Arana Aristi

Cover Graphics

Martyna Idasiak

Photo Credits

Benjamin Dohrmann, Louise Lövenstierne, Teresa Arana Aristi

Contents

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Introduction

People

Course Outline

Design Site

Projects

LIVE WHERE YOU WORK

CY[R]CLE

Slow growing community

Sewing Gåsebäck to Helsingborg

Footprints_Gåsebäck

Childhood Gåsebäck

Gåsebäck - a greener tomorrow

Liveable Gåsebäck

A Re-Flow Story in Gåsebäck

The Worker’s City

G+ add Gåsebäck!

Join Gåsebäck, join the community!

Gåsebäck: Reoccupied

Gastrobäck

Breaking Barriers

GÅSEBÄCK: CREATING A SENSE OF PLACE

CONNECTUS - grow community, build livability

by Annika Enzinger by Antonia Jacob

by Antonia Zoe Freudenberger by Bruna Pessoa

by Eleni Tamiolaki by Elin Bengtsson by Elise Estunger

by Floris Meeuwse

by Gizem Caliskan

by Holley Stringham by Hugo Bennhage

by Javier Ignacio Navarro Puig by Joakim Andén

by John Edmonds by Kritika Singh

by Lamiaa Chnayti

by Laura-Maria Treiblmayr

Sewing Gåsebäck

ReUse Gåsebäck

GB as a TOD

Restoring the Urban Tissue

Gåsebäck: Built on Identity

a per:meable city

Gåsebäck 2 Level City

Gåsebäck’s Shift of Emphasis

Connecting through Nature

Walk in/to Gåsebäck

INSIDE GÅSEBÄCK

go to Gåsebäck

by María Agustina Pérez by Mariia Khalimon by Martine Mahu by Martyna Idasiak

by Matheus Simon Dos Santos by Maya Amei Kranner by My Harrfors

by Ralph Frühwirth

by Salóme Rósa Þorkelsdóttir by Ulrica Flemström by Valeria Rabelo

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by Verena Forstner

Introduction

People SUDes Team:

Guest Lecturers:

Lars-Henrik Ståhl PhD, Professor Director of SUDes Master’s Program School of Architecture, LTH Lund University

Alexandra Vindfeld Hansen, SLA Andreas Mayor, Sydväst Björn Ekelund, Warm In The Winter Daniel Wasden, Lund Municipality Helena Taps, Helsingborg Municipality Johan Rahm, LTH, Lund University Jouri Kanters, LTH, Lund University Louise Lövenstierne, LTH, Lund University Nicholas Duxbury Ransome, Lendager Group Peter Siöström, LTH, Lund University Rune Wriedt, Tredje Natur Shradda Kapri, Gothenburg City Tess Broekmans, Urhahn

Peter Siöström Associate Professor, Chairman of Ax: son Johnson Institute for Sustainable Urban Design Lund University Louise Lövenstierne Architect SAR/MSA Senior Lecturer Course Leader, SUDes School of Architecture, LTH Lund University Daniel Wasden Architect SAR/MSA Lund Municipality Guest Lectuter, Department of Architecture and Built Environment Lund University

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Teresa Arana Aristi Architect SAR/MSA - Urban Designer Lecturer, SUDes Lund University

Guest Critics: Björn Ekelund, Warm In The Winter Daniel Wasden, Lund Municipality Helena Taps, Helsingborg Municipality Shradda Kapri, Gothenburg City

Students: Annika Enzinger, Germany Antonia Jacob, Germany Antonia Zoe Freudenberger, Germany Bruna Pessoa, Brazil Eleni Tamiolaki, Greece Elin Bengtsson, Sweden Elise Estunger, Sweden Floris Meeuwse, The Netherlands Gizem Caliskan, Turkey Holley Stringham, USA Hugo Bennhage, Sweden Javier Ignacio Navarro Puig, Argentina Joakim Andén, Sweden John Edmonds, Ireland Kritika Singh, India Lamiaa Chnayti, Morocco Laura-Maria Treiblmayr, Austria María Agustina Pérez, Argentina Mariia Khalimon, Ukraine Martine Mahu, The Netherlands Martyna Idasiak, Poland Matheus Simon Dos Santos, Brazil Maya Amei Kranner, Austria My Harrfors, Sweden Ralph Frühwirth, Austria Salóme Rósa Þorkelsdóttir, Iceland Ulrica Flemström, Sweden Valeria Rabelo, Mexico Verena Forstner, Austria

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DURING DAY ONE OF THE FINAL PRESENTATIONS

Introduction

Course Outline

Sustainable Urban Recycling During the autumn term of 2021, the students at Lund University, School of Architecture participated in the advanced course ‘Sustainable Urban Recycling’ (ASBN 02) and its complementary theory course ‘Urban Recycling - Theory and Methods’ (ASBN 06), focused on redevelopment of the brownfield area of Gåsebäck.

The aim of the design course was to develop the students’ skills in designing strategic visions for sustainable built environments through the process of urban transformation. The theme was explored throughout the semester in seminars, guest lectures, and project tutorials with the goal that each student presents a site specific proposal for sustainable transformation of the Gåsebäck area of Helsingborg, Sweden.

Throughout the studio-based course, the students were encouraged to engage in exploring various aspects of sustainability, identifying site problems and potentials, and suggesting opportunities for refining urban components. They were guided to find their own meaning in the terms ‘recycling’ and ‘sustainability’ when re-designing the area in Helsingborg. The design intention was to integrate a comprehensive strategy, design guidelines and tools for transforming the area into a sustainable urban structure that promotes attractiveness for the everyday life of both visitors and local residents.

The design process was separated into several parts - analysis, strategy and individual design - combing both the group and individual work of the students.

The design studio resulted in 29 unique projects in which students challenged conventional ideas and tools of sustainability, preparing and supporting the process of urban transformation in Gåsebäck. The following pages are a summary of the design site and include a brief presentation of each of the students design proposals.

For further information on the course and International Master’s Program please visit our

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website at www.stadsbyggnad.lth.se.

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ARTWORK BENEATH THE VIADUCT

Introduction

Design Site Helsingborg, Sweden In 2021 and for the second time, the design studio Sustainable Urban Recycling took on the design site in Helsingborg: Gäsebäck, an industrial area to the south of the city centre that is part of the municipality’s ambitous plans for urban densification and renewal of underutilised areas. The site is hemmed in on its sides by major infrastructure such as the E4 motorway to the east and north, and the harbour area to the west, with the national railway line between Malmö and Gothenburg dividing the area in two. With a rich history as an area of production and industrial activity, the site in many ways lived in the shadow of more prominent areas to the north. But in recent years there has been a resurgence of social and cultural activity, including a thriving graffiti/art scene, which has brought renewed interest in the area and could be a generator for further change.

Due to its strategic location, the site presents many opportunities to better connect with its surroundings, introduce a mix of uses and activities including residential and business enterprise, and the necessary public realm improvements to facilitate this change. But most importantly, there is a possibility to address many of the challenges experienced today, such as excessive hard surfaces and car dominanated streetscapes, through innovative

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sustainable designs from an environmental, social and economic perspective.

PANORAMIC VIEW LOOKING WEST FROM THE TOP OF THE VIADUCT

LOCAL MEETING PLACES

SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE AREA TODAY

CULTURAL CENTER AT THE FORMER FIRESTATION

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MANY FENCES AND BARRIERS TO PEDESTRIANS

Introduction

Design Site “Gåsebäck”

CITY CENTRE

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HBG CAMPUS

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LOOKING NORTH TOWARDS CENTRAL HELSINGBORG ACROSS THE E4 MOTORWAY

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Projects

The initial design task this year was to analyze the place and develop a sustainable vision and strategy for how Gåsebäck will develop over time. The work started with a study trip to the area in order to get an understanding of its qualities and its history. After working in groups to form more overarching strategies for the area’s future development, the students worked individually on a strategic plan for the area, including a detailed design.

Critical questions asked were: How can we break down existing barriers and create new passages, new structures of mobility and new patterns of movement? What elements should be preserved or restored in a new context? How can the reclamation of the the Gåsebäck area generate attractive places to live for many different types of people in different phases of their lives?

The aim of the final Individual phase of the Design Project is to tell a holistic story and design a sensitive, detailed plan for development of the chosen design site.

The constraints and potentials that were identified in the previous stages of analysis and strategy are now to be turned into physical spaces, bound by real dimensions and sitespecific performances. Thus, the students’ visions for Gåsebäck’s urban transformation naturally came to be concrete proposals as a result of the extensive research base from which they could be pulled up.

The reader of this booklet is invited to enduldge into the following pages in order to witness a brief collection of the final projects. It is our hope that all of the students tireless efforts

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and energy can inspire one as much as it has inspired us throughout the semester.

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UNDERPASS BENEATH THE RAILWAY

LIVE WHERE YOU WORK Annika Enzinger, Germany

Masterplan

“Where everyone can live together!”

Helsingborg is a fast-growing city where working and living space is needed. Therefore, Gåsebäck, with its central location and industrial, artistic character, offers the ideal starting point. However, during the area analysis it quickly became clear that Gåsebäck has many problems and barriers that prevent residents from moving into the area.

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My goal is to revitalise Gåsebäck by mixing uses and creating a community. The aim is to combine living, working and leisure without losing the industrial and artistic identity of the area.

For the all-day revitalisation of the neighbourhood, an active ground floor zone is needed, e.g. through public uses, as well as different leisure activities.

Workplaces in the area of productivity, industry or even offices also play an important role. Here, industrial or productive companies could be accommodated in the basement area at noisier streets or intersections and offices could serve as a buffer zone between residential uses. The industrial use also acts as a noise buffer for the rest of the block. For the formation of a community, there is also a need for different sharing offers, as well as space for artistic development or exchange. These should be available in every apartment block. Each block also has an inner courtyard where residents and workers can meet and exchange ideas.

Main square with activity zone

residential

shared commons/ creative cluster

business

R E PA I R

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CAFÉ

13m

3.5m 3.5m

20m

15m

CY[R]CLE

Antonia Jacob, Germany

VISUAL: VIEW FROM CYCLE- AND PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE

“Eyes on the road! - Sustainable urban planning starts with far-sighted planning and builds on environmentally friendly transport

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infrastructure.”

Cycling to and through Gåseback and enjoying a safe and pleasant cycling network that benefits recreational cyclists and commuters alike and connects the district within itself and with the city of Helsingborg turns Gåsebäck into a cycling destination and a pioneer modell of sustainable mobility in Swedish cities. The Mission is to develop a sustainable mobility concept that strengthens and connects the district itself, based on the existing urban fabric. The three-legged Strategy contains the following focus: “Working with Existing”, “Strengthen the Flow and Mobility” and “Create Connector”. A consistent design guideline creates the framework for every further decision that works towards achieving these goals. The new mobility concept for the Gåseback district focuses on sustainable forms of transport in today’s city life, with a particular focus on the bicycle. The new housing blocks

support the emergence of a social community that is rebuilt around the shared passion of cycling and finds space for self-development and social inclusion through the slow transformation of the existing urban space. The aim is to reuse and extend most of the existing built structures. In the course of the conversion of existing urban structures, the focus is on their conscientious re-use in order to advance the idea of circular use of building fabric and material on site. Important Axes and a road network connect the site and important social nodes inside and towards the city. It provides inclusive and easy access and safe and convenient mobility for everyone and plants the first seed of sustainable growth. In order to give the district and its community space to grow together new urban structures are planned according to the design guidelines of multifunctionality and the possibility of later transformation.

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NEW  CYCLELANGUAGE BRIDGE

ORGANIC  NEW CONNECTOR

CENTRAL STATION

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VIEW OVER GÅSEBÄCK FROM CYCLE & PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE, A NEW LANDMARK OF GÅSEBÄCK

Total Width = 20m

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WHY SHOU CYCLE HERE

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SECTION AA SCALE 1:500

NATURAL RESERVE AND WETLAND PARK SUPPORTS EDUCATION & PUBLIC REALM

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CONNECTOR PASSAGE

CYCLE BRIDGE

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PERSPECTIVE SECTION PUBLIC REALM VELODROME AND VELOPLAZA  A PLACE FOR EVERYONE

VISIBLE

8,00

VISUAL CONNECTIONS

Cycle lane

& green islands

NEW  6,00 LANGUAGE walkway with viewpoints & green islands

DIAGRAM VISUAL RELATIONS ON ALL LEVELS INCLUSIVE DESIGN AND RELATION BETWEEN IN & OUTSIDE

ROAD NETWORK & CYCLE BRIDGE: NEW LANDMARK OF GÅSEBÄCK PASSAGE

NEW  LANGUAGE

PASSAGE

DESIGN GUIDELINE

VIEW OVER GÅSEBÄCK FROM CYCLE & PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE, A NEW LANDMARK OF GÅSEBÄCK

FAST LANE

BICYCLE PARKING

FAST LANE

INTERVENTION TOOLS II LANGUAGES DESIGN GUIDELINE  BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE & SAFETY

OFFICE / RETAIL

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GRID  EXISTING BUILT STRUCTURE CONNECTOR STREET (RESTRICTED CAR USE)

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HISTORCIAL BUILDING REUSED AS ACCOMMODATION 1 1 NEW LANGUAGE DESIGN GUIDELINE FOR ATHLETES AND EVENT-CENTRE

FACADES OF OLD & NEW VERTICAL GREEN, NATURAL COLOR SPECTRUM CONNECTS HISTORICAL & NEW BUILDINGS

BICYCLE PARKING

PUBLIC FURNITURE CONNECTS ORGANIC AND URBAN VERTICAL GREEN

SELFSERVICE STATION STATION (WATER & AIR)

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COMMUNITY MEETING  UPCYCLED HISTROCIAL BUILDINGS AND PASSAGE

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PASSAGE

FAST LANE

CYCLEFAST BRIDGE LANE VIEWPOINT, LANDMARK AND CONNECTOR WITH ELEVEATOR FOR INCLUSIVE USE AND QUICK ACCESS TO THE CENTRE OF GÅSEBÄCK

BICYCLE PARKING

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NATURAL RESERVE ANDBICYCLE WETLAND PARK SUPPORTS EDUCATION PARKING & PUBLIC REALM

CONNECTION TO THE HARBOUR

WATER STATION

BIKE KITCHEN & 24/7 SELF SERVICE BICYCLE WORKSHOP

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Slow growing community Antonia Zoe Freudenberger, Germany

Masterplan second stage

“Gåseback requires a slow transformation step by step without losing his identity and

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its existing community.”

owned by the municipality

What is already there? - Gåseback as an industrial area close to the city center but separated by a highway and in itself devided by a railway startedto become repopulated by young artist in the last years. Therefore, several art and culture spots popped up and a street art festival gave the area a new color. However, Gåseback is still separated, unlively, unsafe, and gray. How could a transformation be initiated?

of existing buildings. New functions and activities should support the communities and strengthen them. Streets and connections should be transformed to be more pedestrian and bicycle friendly. Existing functions should be strengthened and public spaces and semipublic spaces should be created to form a community within the neighborhood and to attract people from Helsingborg.

Gåseback requires a transformation without losing his identity and its existing community. Therefore, I propose a slowly progressing transformation starting with the existing potential like utilizing existing structures, using unused and abandoned spaces, and transforming over dimensioned streets. Throughout the transformation people should be at its center – The process for example should give people the opportunity to get involved by creating their own small houses on the roof

In the second stage the process of removing unused / former industrial buildings starts and new buildings with mixed functions can be added. A diverse building typology and a mixed use within buildings should create a diverse neighborhood. Co-living, coworking, mutligenerational houses and other new concepts of living should be build to fulfill living dreams of people and not of investors. Step by step industrial buildings can be removed and new functions can be added until the balance fits.

Before

Adding a level on top

Transforming existing streets / areas

Constructing new buildings

After

section A-A

How does the area look like at the moment?

How does the area look like after the 1. stage?

co-living

How does the area look like after the 2. stage?

market hall playground

museum

private and

restaurant

community

cafe

courtyard

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boulevard

Sewing Gåsebäck to Helsingborg Bruna Pessoa, Brazil

DETAILED PLAN

“Transform Gåsebäck into an active neighborhood by merging its urban fabric with

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Helsingborg ”

Why Gåsebäck is not a lively place even though it is centrally located in Helsinborg and has significant potentials? By analyzing the site, it is possible to see that besides the location, there are many barriers and the existing connections are not inviting. Therefore, “sewing” Gåsebäck urban fabric to Helsingborg’s is the strategy of this project to transform this former industrial area into a lively neighborhood. To achieve this objective were used both physical and mental ways to improve the connections were. The physical transformations, on streets and connectors, improves how people reach and experience Gåsebäck. On the other hand, the mental connections are made by bringing some of the next neighborhoods characteristics, as building’s uses and typologies, green and blue spaces, to Gåsebäck.

To summarize, green&blue, connections, and built structures are the main tools to turn Gåsebäck into an active part o the city. The first strategy is to create a green corridor which creates a diagonal integration through the neighborhood. The second is to redesign the streets, making them friendlier to pedestrians and bikes, and improving the existing connections. And then, to bring uses and building typologies from Helsingborg to Gåsebäck, especially on the boarders.

MASTERPLAN

green & blue

connections

GREEN CORRIDOR

ACTIVITIES CORRIDOR

built structure

SHARED STRRET ATMOSPHERE

SECTION CONNECTION WITH THE BRIDGE

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STRATEGIES

Footprints_Gåsebäck Eleni Tamiolaki, Greece

MY MASTERPLAN

“Footprints of the past reinter-

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preted...”

My exploration began by composing several diagrams of the active and passive zones of Gåsebäck based on different criteria (e.g. social places, uses etc). Through this diagramming procedure, I wondered how the already existing active areas (e.g. artistic community, schools) could be strengthened, but also, how I could regenerate the emptier or “darker” parts of Gåsebäck that are to be found at its barriers and industrial sites. Furthermore, it was very challenging my decision to keep the railways and the bridge, by expanding their use and remaking the space around them. Hence, I decided to focus on improving the parts of Gåsebäck where “active and passive” qualities are located by proposing a strong connection between them. The main intervention is the “red linear park”; a huge connector that starts from a social spot in the middle of Gåsebäck and spreads southeast and northwest. This connector is oriented for pedestrians

and bikers and acts as a choreography of direct lines (paths) and openings (public space). The main spot of the red connector is located on the Seko Skåne Klubb Post Nordväst, where I suggest the use of the ground floor as a public market. In this central point, I also propose ramps (slopes 4%) and elevators that connect the spot to a green park (an old parking lot), as well as to the other side of the neighbourhood. The “red linear park” is also supported by its surroundings: the new residential buildings and other public buildings that will bring new life to Gåsebäck. This intervention also creates a strong connection between the ground level and the car-oriented bridge, which is now rejuvenated and encourages public transportation. The old, vehicle-centered footprints, carved by the industrial history of Gåsebäck, can now co-exist with the human-centered, newborn footprints, thus cultivating a sustainable, long-life network. Greetings and join Gåsebäck! E.T.

SECTION OF THE NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD

DETAILED PLAN: THE MAIN SPOT

PUBLIC SPACE AND STUDENT HOUSING

THE MAIN SPOT: RAMPS, ELEVATORS, OPEN PUBLIC SPACE

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HIGHLIGHTING THE EXISTING & LIGHTENING THE DARK

Childhood Gåsebäck Elin Bengtsson, Sweden

ALL CHILDHOODS

Children in different ages has different needs that needs to be considered. All children in Gåsebäck should feel athome and that they belong here. This means extending the home beyond the private four walls.

PLAYFUL AND EDUCATIONAL

Gåsebäck will be a place where children play and learn. Only 20 % of childrens time is in school so the urban fabric designed for children need to be extended beyond the schoolyards.

SAFE AND ACTIVE MOBILITY

The streetscapes will be pedestrian prioritized to increase the safety. By adding colors, signs and linking functions to paths it will be easy to navigate your way through the area. The paths and streetscapes will be designed for everyday play but also have stop and stay.

GROW WITH NATURE

Growing up around nature decreases the risk of mental disorders by 55%. Besides for the health aspects today, nature is also needed for future generations. For both humans, animals and the environment.

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“A place designed for creating playful memories for children in all ages.”

In today’s design and planning processes young voices is too often left out of the conversation and designing and planning implications are often limited to the location of schools and playground which results in children becomes the lost piece of the picture of urban development.

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By designing with children’s perspective in focus, Gåsebäck will be a place that is inclusive, accessible and successful for everyone. The vision is to tie together everything in a seamless design with safety, education and playfulness in focus.

The neighborhoods is designed around a centered spine that connects Gåsebäck. This spine is an experience with varied activities, urban furniture, vegetation, and meeting points..

The space for cars is limited and pedestrians, public transportation and bicycles are prioritized through the entire area. Gåsebäck should be a space that creates a rich social life for both residents and visitors. Children in different ages has different needs that has been considered in this proposal. All children in Gåsebäck should feel at home and belongingness.

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PERSPECTIVE OF GRAFFITI PARK

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Gåsebäck - a greener tomorrow Elise Estunger, Sweden

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“Make Gåsebäck green again”

Gåsebäck today lacks greenery and is embossed with hard surfaces. There are green areas outside of Gåsebäck, but they are not really connected to the site. The site today is mostly industry, offices, that 1 million kronor park, and wide roads. Gåsebäck has become disconnected from the rest of the city and feels forgotten. The area is made for the car and not the people.

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The vision of Gåsebäck - a greener tomorrow is to make the area connected to the city and its green qualities. Drag the already existing greenery outside of the site into Gåsebäck and create a green path through the whole site.

The soil within the site is contaminated and to solve that problem planting greenery that cleans the soil is proposed. The process may take years but is an alternative worth exploring.

The wide gray roads become greener and make more space for pedestrians and bikes. The proposed housing areas will contribute to more movement and life within the site. Through these strategies Båsebäck will go from grey to green.

CLOSE-UP PLAN OF THE GREEN PATH

VISUALISATION OF THE GREEN PATH

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TYPOLOGIES AND SECTION TROUGH RESIDENTIAL AREA ANND THE GREEN PATH

Liveable Gåsebäck Floris Meeuwse, Netherlands

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Creating a green, pleasant and future resilient living

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environment.

The challenges that are being addressed are mainly the lack of living opportunities, the lack of green and the lack of connection. These factors make Gåsebäck a very disconnected part of the city even though it is very close to the city centre. To make it a more attractive area to live, work and spend time in, it is important that this connectivity is improved and that the borders are taken away. There are different districts that have different typologies. These connect to the surroundings of Gåsebäck. In the south mainly single-family housing is seen, this typology is implemented in the housing area that borders Planteringen in the southwest of the site. In the north of Gåsebäck a more generic block structure is used. The blocks are opened to create a public space where there would normally be a private courtyard. The last typology is the densest one out of the three however this density has a gradient.

The densest areas are located around the public transport stops. Here there is a large variety in functions with higher building density. In the middle of the site, there is a public park that also forms a new connection to the other side of the train tracks. The excess soil that will be produced during the production of the buildings will be used to create an ecoduct across the train tracks. This ecoduct will be the physical green connection that runs through the whole site. The green connection aswell as the housing typologies can be continued in the to be developed harbour area.

Public park view

Section through northern housing area

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Green connection

A Re-Flow Story in Gåsebäck Gizem Caliskan, Turkey

‘‘ Everything still standing in Helsinborg, so in Gåsebäck,

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is actually, moving. ’’

Gåsebäck is defined as an area where the tension is high between past and future. The project consists of three design focus phases which are green, blue, and identity & diversity. Focus 01: Green & Focus 02: Blue The green and blue strategy act as a catalyst to connect the area to the rest of the city. Gåsebäck is imagined as a transitional place where old and new, past and future, green and blue meet. It consists of a mixed layout where unexpected encounters are encouraged, new spaces are spontaneously created to spend time during the day, and the buildings no longer have one function to respond to future needs. The blue connection includes functions such as a reflection of nature from time to time, activating a place for new meetings, adapting to the street level for climate-compatible design.

Green corridors spread from a central point to public spaces and sometimes turn into intermediate gardens in buildings, always meeting with blue. In the development of green and blue strategies, the municipality’s plans for the coming years have been included in the scope of design. Focus 03: Identity & Diversity In order to preserve the existing character of the region, which has a strong identity, the references prepared by the Bevaranderprogram Gåsebäck och Husarområdet have been examined and the buildings that would be preferred for use in case of preservation and renovation have been left in place. Multi-purpose buildings that have an existing character in the area settle as add-ons and create new variants to contribute diversity.

( Reference : Municipality Grönstruktur program, 2014)

( Reference : Helsinborg stadsplan: Vatten och översvämning, 2017)

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OPEN UP GÅSEBÄCK STRATEGIES / LAYERS

URBAN SCALE VISION

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The Worker’s City

Holley Stringham, United States of America

“`What if urban design was used as a tool to advocate for and invest in underrepresented

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populations?

Historically and currently, urban design has been heavily steered to meet the needs of the higher classes. But this is understandable for two main reasons: one, because a new development must be economically sustainable, and marketing more economically stable populations is a safe way to do so. And two, because urban designers are often under the direction of clients and investors who can afford their services who will a vision that more often serves people of the higher classes because those are the populations they are most aware of.In many cases economic sustainability is put in higher regard than social equity. But what if urban design was more often used as a tool to advocate for and invest in underrepresented populations? The Worker´s City does just that, as it explores the needs of the working class in the Gåsebäck neighborhood of Helsingborg, Sweden.

For lower income populations it is important to give them a voice in the development of their living and working space. Hence why Gåsebäck has beccome the Worker´s City. Instead of pushing out the existing industrial, homeless, and artistic community, the further development of Gåsebäck focuses on meeting the needs of those individuals. The focus on communityled placemaking should be the main driving force for development in areas targeting lower income populationsgiving someone a place at the table is one of the most powerful ways to invest in them. In addition, a focus on affordability and variety of spaces also shows that these populations are valued .To invest in disadvantaged populations is to give them a stage in which they can chase their dreams without the distractions of unstable, dangerous, and ill-fit living conditions.

The Worker´s City OVERALL PLAN

KEY Entertainment Venue Offices Public Services Industrial Live/Work Residential Commercial

HOW TO INVEST IN THE WORKING CLASS

Affordability is Key

Convenient and Safe Connections Celebrate Individuality and Identity

High Affordance and Variety in Places

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Sense of Ownership and Pride

G+ add Gåsebäck! Hugo Bennhage, Sweden

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“It’s time to add Gåsebäck back to the urban fabric of Helsingborg, making it the start of the city”

The area of Gåsebäcken is a place where city life seems to stop, greenery is on the fringe and the area is not habitable by humans. Instead the area is where heavy infrastructure, piped streams and low density industry makes it’s mark. Gåsebäck is a place that has been bypassed, literally with infrastructure and figurly with public attention, In short Gåsebäck is where Helsingborg currently ends.

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Does it have to be that way? Gåsebäcken is a central place with the potential of mending the urban fabric of Helsingborg and adding qualitiy of life for all it’s habitants.

The vision is to reuse the space in a new way and also rediscover current and past structures, flows and ecosystems. It also helps us open up Gåsebäck to new inhabitants as well as more visitors to enhance life throughout both day and night.

Through strengthening the connections to the area and creating purpose and subsistence there are great possibilities for multiple functions as well as the unique current identity to thrive. In the detailed design the area is proposed to support both slow and rapid growth. With both intimit and extroverted public spaces for transit, recreation and living - Gåsebäck is equipped with tools to create quality of living! The scheme connects Gåsebäck within, as well as to surrounding areas with both urban and green links that excites and mends the urban fabric and adds Gåsebäck back to Helsingborg!

VISION NEW SÖDERGATAN, FIRESTATION AND TRANSIT POINT

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DETAILED FLOORPLAN SÖDERGATAN EXTENSION AND TRANSIT POINT

SECTION RELATION TRANSIT AND INTERIOR PUBLIC SPACES

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Join Gåsebäck, join the community! Javier Ignacio Navarro Puig, Argentina

GÅSEBÄCK’S STATION AND TORGET VISION

Sitting under a tree shade contemplating life in the park, Jose’s mobile phone starts ringing. “Hej Mom! What are you up to?” He asks.

“A vibrant and livable place one can be born and grow old in!”

“Come to GBK’s Saluhall! I’m here with dad, the grandpas and Susi will come soon with the kids! I also met Benjamin and the gang and they were asking for you!” Mom replies. “I’ll grab my bicycle and be there in five! Puss Puss”...

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The year is 2054, and this is a typical situation in Gåsebäck.

Where there once were barriers now are lush parks, full of biodiversity and sport facilities, which serve as a green SouthNorth connection from Planteringen to Helsingborg; and East-West from Närlunda to the sea.

The former avoided area of Gåsebäck is now a central key connector in southern Helsingborg. Gåsebäck’s Station together with Gåsebäck’s Torget are pivotal points of interest and commerce. Families, artists, workers, athletes, students, professors, children, farmers, elderly, animals, innovators, and much more can now be found in Gåsebäck. Sharing, building and expanding Gåsebäck’s community. Relying on four pillar strategies: Identity, Connectivity, Healthy Environment and Circular Economy, Gåsebäck has been established as an inviting community and meeting place where art, innovation, co-creation and sustainability inspire more and more people every day. What are you waiting for? Join Gåsebäck, join the community!

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GBK’S SALUHALL VISION

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IDENTITY

Gåsebäck: Reoccupied Joakim Andén, Sweden

ATMOSPHERE ALONG GÅSEBÄCKEN

“A place where people feel invited to enter, a place where people feel excited to go, and a place where people feel at

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home”

Gåsebäck is a somewhat isolated island in the middle of Helsingborg. It is tucked in between big infrastructures that acts as barriers, both physically and mentally. Looking beyond the barriers Gåsebäck has however great potential with it’s central location, only 1,5 km from the central station. Today the area is though not fulfilling it’s potential. With mostly industrial use, public spaces that is totally dedicated to cars and the absence of vegetation the human scale is lost on the way.

fabric and belonging activity, the greenblue link creates a continuation through the edges and Gåsebäck itself.

I want to develop a new Gåsebäck that can be reoccupied by the people. A place where people feel invited to enter, a place where people feel excited to go, and a place where people feel at home.

By programming the streetscapes for pedestrians and cyclists and driving the car traffic to the outside and outskirts of the area the people get to dictate the public realm instead of vehicles. Noise protective buildings and vegetation towards the big infrastructures also limit the stressful impact traffic noise creates.

By developing a social green-blue link Gåsebäck becomes part of a larger context and the edges of the area softens up. Instead of edges abrupting the green

By transforming the now quite homogenous use dominated by industries into a more diversely used area Gåsebäck is given a more wellrounded activity. Both from a day/night perspective, activating the area during all hours, but also creating places for a more diverse target group. There should be a place for everyone in Gåsebäck.

MASTERPLAN Detailed plan of residential neighbourhood

Detailed plan of the railyard hub

MAIN DESIGN DIRECTIONS

Green-blue link

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The Cultural venue

Gastrobäck John Edmonds, Ireland

Masterplan 1:2000

“Destroying the Urban vs Rural

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narrative!”

How do we bring back Gåsebäck to Helsinborg? The re-introduction of this space comes in stages: Life, places, and building, then growth. Life within Gåsebäck must be re-ignited before meeting life outside, preparing the urban spaces for increased activities. Thus, begins the introduction of a more established community to ensure healthy social growth. While the border of Gåsebäck is disconnected, so is the within. So how do we re-connect? Often when there is a desirable point of interest within a neighbourhood, people will become attracted to such a spot. Combining the west and east side of the train track to create a common urban agricultural space that contributes to community growth, learning, and food production will allow the spaces to become the point of attraction for not only Gåsebäck but for all Helsingborg and beyond. To truly drive the community to contribute to this new gastro-economic

city there needs to be a facility that allows people to choose. Providing Personal allotments in new and old housing, community gardens within community blocks, allowing people to sell their access production to the urban farm organization; will allow a certain level of participation in economic democracy. The urban farm will become not only an agricultural experiment but also a societal experiment. Providing options of jobs and purpose to the local community will be the thriving factor that will allow Gåsebäck to foster and launch into the progressive urban agriculture world.

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Personal allotments

Breaking Barriers Kritika Singh, India

BUILDING COMMUNITY FROM EXISTING

Bringing in people to live, work, interact, build connections, love

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and laugh.

Gåsebäck is potentially more than just an industrial neighbourhood in Helsingborg, and its revival begins with understanding as well as exploring its capacity through observing, analysing, and experiencing this part of the city. The core idea is to preserve its unique cultural identity and introduce more magnets for growth. To enhance communal interaction, adopted ideas are the introduction of residential, mixed-use markets and offices, plazas and green corridors. Simultaneously, retaining functional spaces like co-creation centres and assigning suitable functions to the fire station and industrial-styled buildings would preserve the social, aesthetic socioeconomic aspect of Gåsebäck. The key to making Gåsebäck an active part of Helsingborg lies in connections and accessibility. It is also where the idea of a green corridor germinates from, acting as a connection for pedestrians and cyclists from the beach

passes under the bridge and extends towards the residences and plaza with the market. Not only does it encourage opting for sustainable ways to commute, but it also engages people in cultural or social activities transpiring in the ‘green corridor’. Graffiti work around Gåsebäck offers an already existing generator. This plan is implemented on two levels – one is to incorporate more outdoor activities like open music/ holiday celebrations, open-air libraries, markets would for generating footfall and forming a functional economic environment. The other is assigning functions to the green zones like urban farming, private courtyards, pocket parks, and sports facilities.

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GÅSEBÄCK: CREATING A SENSE OF PLACE Lamiaa Chnayti, Morocco

GÅSEBÄCK’S TRAIN STATION

“Visiting, Connecting, Belonging.

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HOME.”

Defined by its industrial aspect, Gåsebäck has struggled to keep up and maintain its connection with Helsingborg city, its inhabitants, and visitors. While some youth initiatives to reclaim Gåsebäck by making it an art hub and free creative zone gives the place a glimmer of hope, it is not enough to entirely revive the site. Gåsebäck has the potential to become a place where people feel a sense of belonging and familiarity. A place that gives them a feeling of excitement, curiosity and makes them blend in, explore, use, revisit and even stay.. Gåsebäck could be convivial, comfortable, sustainable and adaptable. Gåsebäck could be MY place, YOUR place and OUR place. Gaseback could become HOME. Visiting : Creating hot spots that attract visitors to Gåsebäck and generating active spaces that act as a motor for the site’s functionality. Landmarks and

easily identifiable spaces would give a visual identity and help the user relate to the space and become familiar with it. Connecting: Promoting social interaction and mixed usage through the public places and buildings typology in addition to connecting the users with the blue and green landscapes, the site’s identity and the different functionalities. Belonging: Adapting the old spaces and buildings all while creating new ones to fit the needs and comfort of each user, and implementing activities and functions that create a lasting relationship between the people and the spaces. From Space to Place, Gåsebäck could feel like Home...

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Optimizing Car Traffic

Prioritizing Pedestrians

Reconnecting Green & Blue

Removing Barriers -Train Station-

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AREA P : MAIN PUBLIC PLACE

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CONNECTUS - grow community, build livability

Laura Treiblmayr, Austria

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“Createing a space where people get connected and a

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community can grow.”

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The overall vision is to create a space where people get connected and a community can grow. Everybody should feel welcome to live there, work there and/or spend their free time there. Therefore, the aim is to create a new district without boundaries - not socially and not physically – with a great variation of green open spaces. To archive that goal, the biggest barrier, the train, has to be replaced. By putting the train tracks underground, the area gets a lot of new qualities and chances. Not only the connections to the surrounding areas get improved, but especially the connections inside the area create one district what was before two districts. This huge step allows to connect the whole area itself, the city center and the ‘Gåsebecken’ by a continuous park which is at the same time the main connection through the area. This does not only connect the people but is a connection for flora and fauna as well.

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Apart from this continuous park, there are various types of green open spaces, like for example smaller parks with fruit orchards, areas for sports activities, playgrounds, productive areas for urban gardening (mostly on the roof of residential buildings), urban farming, a sensory garden next to a senior living area. Additionally, there are some streams which connect the ‘Gåsebecken’ with the sea. It does not only handle the storm water but also creates a recreation area and a place to play for children with a pleasant microclimate. There are three typologies of residential blocks, with different densities and building heights. To strengthen the community even more, all of those residential blocks get their own inviting (glass) house as a communal space.

PERSPECTIVE: COURTYARD OF BLOCK 2

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Sewing Gåsebäck María Agustina Pérez, Argentina

Open space in relation to the existing recreation center (socio-cultural spot)

“It’s an INTERCONNECTION, an

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INTERPLAY from both sides”.

Gåsebäck is currently surrounded by different mobility routes that make the site separate and disconnected from the rest of the city and also fragmented in two. This urban structure makes us reflect on Gåsebäck as a PHYSICAL and PERCEPTIVE ISLAND, where spaces are not designed for people. Despite this, certain internal and external opportunities stand out. It’s located in a key LOCATION within the city (near transport nodes, near the center, near two water points, near green areas), and has an ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL IDENTITY that is growing. Also, it has a large number of spaces that could be recycled (ADAPTABILITY). I propose three strategies - expand, connect and densify - to make Gåsebäck a district that is part of the city, with a unique atmosphere. Gåsebäck would be a new cultural and meeting point for Helsingborg, a place in dialogue with the rest of the city. It is proposed to EXPAND the existing identity above the borders of the district

and CONNECT Gåsebäck within the site and with the rest of the city. For this, a main “seam” or connector is proposed, that will connect the center of Helsingborg, with Gåsebäck and the coast; and also seams of lesser hierarchy. This main connector not only connects the site with the city, but also expand the identity and connect existing and new socio-cultural points. The seams are not always the same, they change according to the space of the site they find. Finally, DENSIFY the site with new functions, services and equipment. In this way, it seeks to generate an atmosphere in the public sphere that invites you to be in Gåsebäck.

Large interconnected parks

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The green within the urban fabric Water games in public spaces

Small green areas (parks, pocket parks, courtyards, etc)

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Different scenes of the area interconnected by the main seam.

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SECTIONS. Main seam section in boulevard area (top) / Viaduct section (bottom)

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ReUse Gåsebäck Mariia Khalimon, Ukriane

THE SQUARE BIRD VIEW

“Respect the existing features to become crucial components

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of renewed district.”

The project addresses the challenge of Gåsebäck to be an inviting, alive, safe, and comfortable area with its unique robust, and industrial past. The strategy proposes buildings adaptive reuse when possible, as well as implementing a mixed-use approach. Revitalizing a neglected central area that has immeasurable potential. By establishing the comfortable connection between the areas through the site the proposal links existing residential areas with each other and the centre of the city. Thus: • Change some of the area uses to be inviting and entertaining. Create a web of diverse places – hot spots. Places that invite a wide range of people and introduce Mix Uses, the ability to host multiple activities during different times of the day. • Reuse and revitalize the existing fabric buildings and materials contributing to a sustainable approach concerning the identity of Gåsebäck. • Increase the internal flow sufficing

anybody’s daily needs. Enhance connection between hotspots by improving street sections to less car-friendly and more cycle- and pedestrian-friendly. Establish visible cycle lanes, improve site connection to the city. • Increase open spaces and publicity accessible spaces. Remove the physical barriers, for instance – fences. Instead replace them with vegetation, where needed. • Enhance the feeling of comfort by providing greenery across the main footpath. Reuse current unused parking spaces to public parks, gardens, and farms. Consider permeable surfaces and decontaminating vegetation. Develop biodiversity and recreational value. • Embrace the existing Art Culture to develop the inclusive and creative atmosphere of the future Gåsebäck.

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CONNECTING AREAS

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GB as a TOD

Martine Mahu, The Netherlands

Gåsebäck is the place to be! There are so many activities here and it the streets are so lively.

MASTERPLAN

“Gåsebäck will be turned into a place where people arrive,

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depart, stay, live and work!”

In the future, Gåsebäck will be part of the city again. This is established by developing Gåsebäck as a Transit Oriented Development, using existing and new sustainable transport networks. The existing train tracks currently run through Gåsebäck, causing the trains just to pass by. In the future this will change! A new train stop for the Pågatågen is introduced which will make Gåsebäck not a place to pass, but a place to arrive, depart and to stay. This train stop is connected to a new tramline, which will run across the existing viaduct. These two strong sustainable transport networks come together in the central point of Gåsebäck, which will turned into a Transit Hub.

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With a Transit Hub in the middle of Gåsebäck, the district can be developed as a TOD; an urban place where buildings, activities, public spaces and people come together near excellent transit services. Gåsebäck will be more dense, compact and focused on sustainable transport options instead of the car. This way, Gåsebäck will be a vibrant place in the future with streets full of people and activities!

I love this neighbourhood! I live and work here and I do everything by bike.

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DETAILED PLAN - TRANSIT HUB Phase 1 - The Transit Hub

Phase 2 - Development around the Transit Hub

Phase 3 - E4 gone, Gåsebäck connected to the City Centre

Phase 4 - Harbour development

City Centre Central Station

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Restoring the Urban Tissue Martyna Idasiak, Poland

VISION COLLAGE

“Reintroducing urban flows to Gåsebäck transforms it from a city void into a liveable, unique

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part of Helsingborg.”

Currently the Gåsebäck area stands as a void in Helsingborg urban fabric, which strongly influences the social and spatial situation both within the site and in its surroundings. The city as a living organism needs all of its parts to work efficiently and in a complementary way to ensure flexible and healthy environment that would be adaptable enough for oncoming climate, social and economic changes. To transform such an inactive, industrial area into a liveable, connected and sustainable neighbourhood, a gradual process of reviving is needed. The proposed design project is based on series of urban interventions applied gradually in time and space to ensure continuous restoration of the urban tissue of Gåsebäck. By such an urban rehabilitation the area would successively regain its urban shape and features.

The interventions undertake the challenge to take advantage of current qualities and use them to overcome existing problems. Finding the existing generators, directing their actions outwards and adding complementary generators in-between them create spaces of connection, that along with refined entry points make it more feasible for external urban flows to disperse within Gåsebäck and hence reintroduce life to its streetscapes. This network of flows stands as extension to already existing urban connections, which as a result bring Gåsebäck and its surrounding areas closer, but also create a firm spine for next stage development of implementing residential areas into the site.

HELSINGBORG

FUTURE

refining streetscapes

NOW

GÅSEBÄCK ?

moving the harbour society climate change

new mixed-use new tram/bus lines greenery growth

existing and new generators

DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE

economy

moving the industry?

FIRE STATION

L HA OX

BACKÄNGEN

DOCKSPARKEN

EP OR T

UG AL

JORDBODALEN

N LE

HUB GRAFFI TI CEN TRE LEISURE

MIATORPS PARK

1ST STAGE | GENERATORS | GREENERY LINKS | MOBILITY

? ?

2ND STAGE | NEW MIXED-USE | FUTURE ADAPTABILITY

? COLLAGE | NORTHERN WEDGE

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Gåsebäck: Built on Identity Matheus Simon dos Santos, Brazil

MAIN PARK AND CENTRAL STATION VIEW

“Gåsebäck should be a place full of cultural spaces, connected to Helsinborg, a place to people live and a place to be

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built into its identity”

Gåsebäck is an isolated island nowadays, separated from Helsingborg, a place with identity, but lost in the city context. The aim is to create a sustainable community based on its identity and explore the personality that already exists on Gåsebäck. The graffiti creates a unique culture in the neighbourhood, creating a unique opportunity for a fresh start. The strategy mainly focuses on the sustainability concepts and Gåsebäck’s identity, especially its “street” culture (graffiti, skate, hip hop, etc.). Assuming the existing cultural spaces are hiding in the area, they need light and can become a powerful force to transform the region. There is a lack of housing and no sense of community in the area. Due to its location in Helsingborg it is possible to transform the neighbourhood into a cultural landmark.

This strategy focus on three main goals: 1. Enhance the connections - between Gåsebäck, Helsinborg and why not the world, enhancing the quality of the public realm and giving people the possibility to spend their leisure time in quality and cultural-based urban spaces. 2. Build on identity - The plan is to recycle the use of Gåsebäck’s historical brick buildings, using the existing infrastructure to rebuild the urban matrix and create a quality public realm and urban spaces, based on the graffitis and the cultural aspects of the area. 3. Construction of community Gåsebäck needs people occupying its area, the purpose is to create unique buildings and quarters, studying the environmental aspects that affect the block, (microclimate, living roofs, energy production, etc.), as a result, it is expected the creation of unique buildings.

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AXONOMETRIC VIEWS - HEIGHTS AND USES

VIEWS FROM THE LEISURE SPACES UNDER THE VIADUCT

a per:meable city Maya Amei Kranner, Austria

DETAIL EAST

office market

park

housing

public usage office

MASTERPLAN GÅSEBÄCK

“fluid borders bold movement living culture”

A permeable city can be comprehended in many different layers and scales and shall be understood as a foundation of equality in living. Instead of diminishing all boundaries and barriers, the strategy is to make them more permeable and fill the inside with every day’s context.

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It works as a proposal to counteract the barriers within Gåsebäck – both physically, but also in social terms, since the development in Helsingborg has focused mainly on the north, while leaving the southern part as well as the seashore untouched.

Permeability lies in functional diversity, mixing of social classes, age and gender, permeable surfaces to cope with climate change but also spatially by playing with inside/outside situations. A focus lies on public space as a driver for a diverse and lively community. Diverting the area into smaller districts and trying to spread the necessities for living – both

private and public - in between them equally is part of that strategy. Artistic attraction elements should be included in each of those areas, running like a fluid through whole Gåsebäck. Main values are working with empathy and site specificity concerning humans, materials, built forms and living creatures. It should be understood processual – being open for the dynamics of nature and everyday life.

New diverse building structures enabling social diversity and mixing of class, age and gender

ECONOMICAL PERMEABILITY

ENVIRONMENTAL PERMEABILITY

Increasing proximity of functions as well as promoting building and material reusage

Improving permeable surfaces for climatic issues and microclimate for recreational values

DAYTIME ACTIVITIES : LIFE INBETWEEN BUILDINGS

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SOCIAL PERMEABILITY

DIVIDE THE VAST SPACE INTO SMALLER FUNCTIONING DISTRICTS IMPROVE THE SPACE SUROUNDING THE EXISTING PUBLIC MAGNETS

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time:line

USE THE STREETS TO TURN THEM INTO QUALITATIVE PUBLIC REALM CREATE NEW ENTRANCES AND IMPROVE THE EXISTING DIVERSIFY FUNCTIONS IN EXISTING BUILDINGS DEVELOP QUALITATIVE GREEN SPACES

BRING IN NEW WITH DIVERSE F TO ENSURE DIVERS

NIGHTIME ACTIVITIES : LIFE INBETWEEN BUILDINGS

CREATE ACCESSABLE ROOFSCAPES AS A CONNECTOR BETWEEN THE VIADUCT AND GROUND SURFACE

REDESIGN THE BRIDGE FOR PEDESTRIANS, BIKERS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT

NEW WIDER UNDERPASSAGE WITH A RAMP FOR CYCABILITY

W BUILDINGS FUNCTIONS E SOCIAL SITY

CONTINUE DEVELOPING A HOLISTIC NETWORK ADD AN ENTRANCE ON THE EAST CONNECTING THE PUBLIC STREET WITH THE PARK

LINK BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE SEASIDE

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PREPARING FOR GÅSEBÄCK TO BECOME THE MISSING

Gåsebäck 2 Level City My Harrfors, Sweden

AXONOMETRIC SKETCH OF THE DESIGN PROPOSAL

“The design approach is to create a place that will be

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connected on many levels!”

My design purpose for Gåsebäck is to transform the viaduct to a sustainable highway where pedestrians, cyclists and the tram coexist. The buildings surrounding the viaduct are placed with a near distance and together with creative design solutions like steps, bridges, stairs, elevators, sloping roofs etc. you will be able to connect the viaduct and the buildings. From this starting point I continued working with how Gåsebäck could go from being an isolated part of Helsingborg, known for car repair shops, into a connected area known for its destinations. Gåsebäck will be a mixed use district with housing, workplaces, retail, culture, education and new public spaces such as a new square, a railway park, food hall, recreation centre and the viaduct of course. The meeting of old industrial buildings and new modern ones helps to settle the atmosphere in the area.

To achieve the vision of a connected area, the Europa Route that divides the city centre and Gåsebäck in two, and leads heavy traffic into the city, is transformed into a boulevard. There are future plans in Helsingborg that support this transformation, the HH connections to Helsingör and the move of the container harbour further down to the south. After the fulfilment of the plans, the heavy truck traffic will no longer need to travel through the city. Which makes the infrastructure of Malmöleden and Oljehamnsleden irrelevant in its former shape. The boulevard also helps to achieve another vision of mine, that you should be able to suddenly stumble on Gåsebäck when taking a walk from the city centre without noticing strong barriers. To sum it all up the design approach is to create a place that will be connected on many levels.

flexible area

square

tramstation

urban gardening

greenhouse

gåsebäcken

café

DETAIL PLAN

MASTER PLAN

43 m

25 m

20 m

15 m

33 m

12 m

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Gåsebäck’s Shift of Emphasis Ralph Frühwirth, Austria

SHIFT

EM H S S P A I S k Œ n e t r af i k e n

COMPACT CONNECT

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

NO CARS

SHIFT DENSIFY

BIKE MIX

WALK CONCEPT

“The shift of emphassis starts with the people. Nevertheless, their lifestyle, convenience and the fact that owning a car has become a prestige (social standard) represent significant challenges that we as planners

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need to address.

It is a slow process, but we need to start it now.”

In the past, humanity strived for economic growth, but now we are experiencing a time when we realise that it is much more important to strive for overall sustainability and find good solutions to manage population growth within the same spatial resources. Almost every urban structure is oriented towards the car, which in no way guarantees sustainable development and wastes one of the greatest resources in the urban context - the streets. The fact that streets are owned by the municipality and are indirectly or directly related to general development goals, they are therefore the starting point of the shift. With the creation of three different street characters as well as diverse emphases and focal points, Gåsebäck succeeds in restructuring itself and connecting on a different level. People’s lifestyles and daily commutes are beginning to

change and it is understood that a noncar-centred urban structure is more likely to be a better one. But not only the new street network but also many other aspects like green and blue infrastructure, new and recycled building structures as well as innovative social and communal possibilities to programme the public realm itself, make it possible not only that Gåsebäck can function on its own, but also that the processing area adapts to the surroundings and merges with the new harbour development area. In this way, Gåsebäck is no longer an outcast island, but rather an attractive area which strives for sustainability, with manifold lifely nodes and where people come, go and of course stay.

CREATED NODES

mix use CONNECTED, MANIFOLD, TOLERANT, INCLUSIVE

leave space towards the street

GREEN & BLUE

TRANSPARENT, SAFE, VALUABLE

INTERCONNECTED, FUNCTIONAL

physical wellbeing and sense of connection seating and greenery every 30 meters

nature edges

NATURE EDGES

breaking down the strict seperation between motorised traffic, cyclists and pedestrians

‚soaking-in‘ effect

ATTRACTIVE AND ACTIVE, INTEGRATED

rainwatermanagement

circulation

30m

NEW STRUCTURES

NEW BUILDINGS

NEW NETWORK

6 2 3 6

A‘

HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

9 A 1

3 CAR PARKING 6 3

ective

persp

6 GREENERY

perspective

1 2

NETWORK

3 4 5 2

7 8 9

MASTERPLAN

diverse roofscape and inside-outside interaction

wide open space between buildings, strong inside-outside interaction

RESIDENTIAL

OFFICE

RESIDENTIAL

OFFICE

COMMERCIAL

25m

programmed placa

street

bus stop 50m

programmed placa

mobility hub public realm extension on bridge multifunctional car parking extended car park active green passive green social experimental area

new hotspot

diverse roofscape and inside-outside interaction

RESIDENTIAL

mix used building

social workshop halls

RESIDENTIAL RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL

mix used building

street type 2: space for self-appropriation

12m

18m

mix used building with emphasis on residential 35m

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Connecting through Nature Salóme Rósa Þorkelsdóttir, Iceland

Master Plan

“Strengthening the greenery in Gåsebäck and using it as a connector to the rest of

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Helsingborg”

Connections, in general, are lacking in Gåsebäck, both within and to the surroundings. In my design, I focus on creating greater connections, both in the stricter sense of connecting mobility-wise but also in the sense of connecting people to their city and their neighbors through nature. Strengthening the greenery in Gåsebäck and using it as a connector to the rest of Helsingborg and as a connector between public spaces and residential areas within Gåsebäck. Three large parks are now found in the area, each with its individual pedestrian connection to the surroundings to the north and east. Street parking has been replaced by car garages and street trees have taken their place. Basic pedestrian connections have been strengthened with wider sidewalks that cross over side streets giving pedestrians right of way and bicycle lanes throughout.

The main pedestrian avenue connects Gåsebäck from the east to the west, as well as small avenues leading north and south. The buildings along the main avenue serve as mixed-use. Active ground floors, with shops and cafes with large windows or see-through front to connect the inside and outside, and apartments on the upper levels with courtyards behind. The courtyards have a hierarchy of privacy, with private edges along with the residential homes on the ground floor, semi-private edges thereafter as a space for neighbors to share, and in the middle a semi-public space. All of the buildings on site are in “walkup” height, ranging from three to five floors. The industrial buildings which have been used for the graffiti festival have been renovated. There is now space for restaurants and bars, along with studio space for artists and galleries. Brick buildings have been recycled and given new purposes.

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Sections

Walk in/to Gåsebäck Ulrica Flemström, Sweden

THE ATMOSPHERE IN GÅSEBÄCK YEAR 2036

“An pedestrian area where cultural and social hotspots

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meet nature in the spine”

Gåsebäck is located one kilometer from Helsingborg’s Central Station. Currently Gåsebäck is surrounded by infrastructure barriers that give an impression of the area being disconnected from the rest of Helsingborg. This project’s vision is to enable visitors to feel Gåsebäck is a part of the city, to heavily reduce the high rate of car usage in the area, and that inhabitants are encouraged to bike, walk or use public transportation when commuting to and within Gåsebäck. It will be achieved by transforming the majority of infrastructure aimed for cars into spaces for bikers and pedestrians. A new train station is planned as well as several new bus stops. The expectation is that these additions will contribute to less car usage and facilitate turning the offered public transportation choices into a truly attractive alternative.

A main pedestrian and biking spine is suggested that goes through places with some already existing cultural and social hotspots. Additional meeting points, greenery and a stream will frame the spine. This will attract people to go there, it will contribute to a pleasant microclimate, and help mitigate the negative effects of extreme weather conditions that gets more and more common.

Railway Car streets Pedestrian/cycling streets Spine Main public spaces

Parks Other greenery A

Stream New buildings

Remaining buildings

Cultural/social hotspots

100 m

MASTER PLAN

32 m

27 m

THE SECTION A-A OF THE SQUARE WITH THE BRIDGE IN THE BACKGROUND 0

THE VIEW OF THE ART DISTRICT FROM THE BRIDGE

15 m 10 m

35 m

10 m

THE SECTION B-B OF A COURTYARD IN AN RESIDENTIAL AREA

18 m 0

15 m

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INSIDE GÅSEBÄCK Valeria Rabelo Cabal, México

MASTER PLAN

“Taking the streets to reclaim

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identity”

Despite Gåsebäck’s ideal location, close to the city center and the harbor it faces a particular problem, it is enclosed by many different barriers. These barriers may be physical, but they reflect into social behaviors, leaving the area open to some bad reputation and “unsafe” perception to newcomers. On the other hand, Gåsebäck is an upcoming place with many public events such as graffiti festivals, concerts, and a very tight sense of community. The graffiti identity is well established at the place, with its approach to connect the area to a wider community, even international. The only problem is that it may seem physically unreachable to both international tourists and even locals.

The aim on this project is to give Gåsebäck a more welcoming structure, by renovating streetscapes prioritizing the pedestrian and bike path, creating more housing and mixed areas to bring people to live, work, enjoy and stay on the spot, using public areas, social gathering areas, commercial places and more parks. With the creation of a central node on the heart of the area that works both as a transport hub for bus/tram stops and a small train stop that forces the transport to slow down and prioritize the users on ground and connecting all levels with an art structure/open public pavilion that serves as a canvas we reclaim the identity and connection that Gåsebäck needs. .

BARRIERS DIAGRAM

CONNECTIONS DIAGRAM

AFFORDANCES AND FLOW DIAGRAM

SECTION

TRANSPORT HUB/ PAVILION VISUALIZATION

HOUSING UNITS VISUALIZATION

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SKETCH VISUALIZATION

go to Gåsebäck Verena Forstner, Austria

GÅSETRAIL

“Go to Gåsebäck, the walkable

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neighborhood of Helsingborg!”

Where ever we go, we go there for a reason. Working, living, sports, leisure activities, eating or just because the place is beautiful. If there is a reason people go places! Gåsebäck has lot’s of barriers, the lack of attractive places or activities are just a view of them but might be the biggest problem. It seems like Gåsebäck is ’well’ separated from all the good opportunities around.A big barrier is a highway but the biggest one might be the train. There are trains everywhere. Gåsebäck is surrounded by train tracks and the main north south train connection of the city runs through the middle of Gåsebäck which divides the area into two parts. The main idea is to connect the site with the city of Helsingborg and to give people a reason to go to Gåsebäck. Breaking up with the barriers! The design proposals boldest step is to take the train tracks underneath. A new

open connection will be the ’Gåsetrail’ which connects the northern part with the southern part of the city. There are two plazas, green parks, commercial uses, offices and residential areas planned along the trail. The trail is part of the new street grid which makes connectivity in and to the area easy. New Gåsebäck in the middle of Helsingborg will have diversity in people who life there, people who work there, people who visit the place and people who just bike or walk trough the area.

A AB B

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GSEducationalVersion

Brandstation cultural hub

Brandkårs museum bibliotek library

Oxhallen event food / brewery

train mall stores / food

youth center skate park

closed block structure creates barriers for pedestrians

GÅSETRAIL - SOCIA LIFE

social life Gåsetrail square

big open block structure 130 x 150 m

creates walkable STRUCTURE blocks with BLOCK private and semi-private courtyard

small open block structure 100 x 115 m creates walkable blocks with semi-private courtyards

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SECTION BOULEVARD

4m 6m 4m

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walking

service

cykel / walking

service

walking

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Published March 2022