2010

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Europan 10 - Mora-Sweden Watermark shaping.


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The project is conceived as a new complex urban framework and as the place of connection between different urban systems. Choosing a multi-scale and an articulated functional and spatial approach, the proposal's structure is based on a strong connection to the rest of the city. It can be seen as a contemporary re-interpretation of the complexity of the town's central area.


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The project's structures responds to the aim of revitalizing the site and the study area by integrating different spaces and functions, and strengthening its connection to the rest of the city.
For this reasons, the project is defined by 5 component systems:
1. the residential area, whose development follows the Badstugatan and Pink House directions;
2. the main public spaces system with a new square in front of the cultural youth centre (Pink House), conceived as an urban gate, close to the new roundabout between E45 and road 70) and towards the south waterfront a solar park
3. the green wedge: a new park along the E45 and the railway;
4. the weststrand park, a new system of parks, sport facilities and leisure spaces along the E45 direction;
5. the waterfronts with new pedestrian pathways, quays and decks along the shore.

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1. Housing development
The residential blocks' result from a critical analysis of the urban tissues. Every block contains different housing typologies aggregated in different ways, with a large amount of green areas and different spaces gradually connecting the road space to the house space. An open wooden frame along every block, with green plantations, support this gradual transitions and permits to read every block in a double way at the same time: as a unitary building and as a composition of different volumes. This choice derives from the objective to keep a unitary urban view, necessary due to the lack of a clear order in the site, without losing the complexity of an urban tissue where every single house has its own character, as the context's suggestions seem to show. Each block is composed by single family houses with internal courts, terraces or gardens, depending on every specific level.

2. The new square and the main public spaces
The square is open southwards, to the new park, while the new residential area constitute its western limit. To define the east side of the public square, the public floor becomes a folded surface, realized with a large stair leading to a raised square working as an arena for open air events. Under the folded surface different services, commercial and storage spaces can be previewed. A small and light panoramic tower is conceived as the western visual pole a symbolic landmark reference accessing the urban gate from the roundabout and it permits people to have a large view towards the landscape, increasing different possible uses of the square. The south part of this system is organized with different solution of the urban soil, like the solar park containing a series of green houses with eco-sustainable energetic solution, the urban park near the houses with the summer-winter water surface and some small leisure activities. In the north-west edge of the system is located the temporary bus terminal needed for the competitors during the Vasaloppet race. Out of the special event, the shelter can be used as bus stop and to protect a little weekly market with kiosks and little commercial boxes.

3. The green wedge: a new park along the Vasagatan
The park between the residential area, the Pink House square and the Vasagatan is a green wedge with continuous pedestrian paths coming from the city centre. It is shaped as a lightly slope and it has different meanings a local green area for the residential development's users, with playgrounds and small services;
a place where temporary storages for the Vasaloppet race can be placed, protected and hidden by the slope; a green and acoustic protection from the traffic lines represented by the Vasagatan and the railway. The park is crossed by an important connection between the square and the Travel centre and the Saxviken, designed as a pedestrian pathway and footbridge over the main traffic lines as a part of the connection system between the north and the south waterfront.

4. The weststrand park
South by the railway, the open areas are re-designed as parks, sport areas and leisure facilities along the Strandgatan and Vasagatan direction, recognized as main urban references. In this way sport activities can be easily reached from the site area. The new Travel center is thought as the western conclusion of this spatial system, covered by a large canopy. To promote different functions and urban life complexity, also in this area some small building and greenhouses are proposed with different use. By the lakeshore, different decks for small boats are previewed.

5.The waterfronts
On the waterfronts, different quays are previewed as the conclusion of the connection systems and pathways coming from the square and the housing development area. The north one is conceived as a series of little piers for small boats with some little leisure activities, also related to the housing blocks. The south waterfront has a more urban character, and it is structured with platforms, quays and little services - cafe, restaurants. The west floating pier can host little aircraft and mini-cruises landing and a platform for helicopter can be previewed. Also a little group of floating houses has been previewed. All the buildings and facilities have a structure, generally floating, able to front the problem of flooding phenomena.

Construction details
Different environmental concerns have been considered in a general view.
Natural Energy Integrated system is formed by a rising system ( the Solar Park) and a receiving system (the new houses).
The Solar Park is structured with greenhouses that hold public functions beside to be café, restaurants, atelier etc.
The greenhouses are provided by photovoltaic system panels integrated in the glasses covered surfaces exposed to the south, the vertical facades are structured with a photovoltaic brise-soleil system. All road lamp along the path can be photovoltaic led. The energy product should feed the new housing complex consumptions.
Eco-housing: the residential units aim to reduce their energy consumption and develop the natural resources to become passive homes.
-The glassed facades are opened to the southern light to maximize the amount of solar heat gain in the wintertime, but screened by wooden brise-soleil during the summer.
-A wide section of walls and ceilings allow a well-insulation of the inner spaces, as also the glassed facades are thought for minimal energy loss.
-The small greenhouse in the houses, accumulate heat and distributing it to closer rooms.
-The heating and hot water systems are integrated by geothermal heat pump.

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