Urban development Nya Årstafältet Stockholm By Erik Giudice Architect

Nya Årstafältet is part of Stockholm’s ambition to create a organic city structure in it’s southern parts and to establish new urban centralities. The project will become one of Stockholm’s largest new developments in the coming years.

The core of the project is the new landscape park of more than 50 hectares which will combine activity fields, playgrounds, allotments and botanical gardens. The park is linked to one of Stockholm’s green corridors and will contribute to local biodiversity.

On the north and the western side of the park two large decks concentrate playgrounds and leisure activities, creating a spectacular transition between the park and the buildings.

The project connects the existing neighborhoods and infrastructures with the aim to create urban continuity and suppress both social and physical barriers. The robust and flexible city structure with its folded geometry gives a specific identity to the layout and creates a great variation in the cityscape and in public spaces.

The new city blocks combine a wide diversity of typologies, scales and heights in order to respond to the needs of a contemporary evolving society. Towards the park, higher buildings create a contrasted and airy skyline, letting light and views pass through to the buildings standing behind.

The project carries a high ecological and social profile, that meets up with the city’s global ambition which has resulted in the nomination of Stockholm to Green Capital 2010. .....more
Site
Årstafältet, Stockholm

Program
New city development : housing, offices, services, public buildings and a large central park.

Dimensions
New neighborhoods 30 ha

Landscape park 50 ha

City center development | Hyllie, Malmö in Sweden | Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

location: Hyllie, Malmö in Sweden
program: City center development, shopping, office and culture
client: Steen & Strøm AS
size: 180 000 m2
commision type: Invited competition 2nd Prize (2006)
status: Competition Project
year: 2006
Building a single structure which is to contain the entirety and dynamic of city life is a huge challenge that requires special attention to aspects of human fulfilment and dignity in the way these are conditioned by the urban environment. The concept of “the city as a house” seeks to build upon the success of the single-structure shopping mall and develop the principle further by infusing the single structure with all the other aspects of life, i.e. housing, workplaces, leisure etc. This creates a dynamic reminiscent of the medieval walled town where the entirety of life was lived within tight parameters........more

Parkline/Swell Competition By Snarkitecture | Miami Florida

Parkline/Swell is a competition proposal for a pedestrian friendly elevated network that connects the Metromover to the surrounding city and cultural destinations. The Parkline allows passage over the highway via a roaming greenscape, while the Swell is a grand staircase that ebbs and flows to create an inviting civic event space. Parkline/Swell Station is both a destination landmark and a beacon that gives a powerful identity to the Metromover system and the city of Miami.

The Swell is a stepped landscape that ascends upwards from the museum plaza to shelter the Metromover station and create a floating civic space. A pair of escalators pass through the Swell allowing direct access from the museums and park to the station. At its most turbulent moments the Swell arcs and rears to reveal glimpses into the station also creates boundaries and vegetated walls. At its calmer moments the smooth, twisting stairs create pockets of program for visitors to activate. As the Swell drifts up and follows the rail, it becomes an icon of the Metromover system as it passes over I-395.

The propsed Parkline/Swell station is located between the Miami Art Museum and Science Museum and elevated to align with the adjacent plaza, creating a visual and physical connection to the surroundings. Sheltered by the form of the Swell which rises up and over the station, a structural, living green wall frames the platform edges, screening the Metromover riders from highway traffic to the north. Apertures in the diagrid screen and the concrete form frame views from the platform to Museum Park to the south and create glimpses of the Metromover cars as the enter and exit the station......more