Hammarö (SE) winner
Federico Colella (IT)
T. +39 3338514953
Hugo Vargas (MX)
federico.colella@hotmail.com
architects
www.federicocolella.net T. +52 5552642014 hugo.vargas.arq@gmail.com www.hugovargasr.com
126 Paths Team point of view The proposal will be divided into different phases, with maximum flexibility: the first step consists in the re-use of existing pavilions to start the area’s social-economic regeneration. After this, the project provides for a “ring” of growth around a “closed street”, producing a new urban pathway with new public spaces and stone flooring. We propose dwelling typologies with an integrated system of built links that re-shapes the existing villas. Along the external path, interchange stations keep cars out of the urban ring. The project sets strategies to preserve and regenerate the historic landscape and strengthen the system of functional vegetation for both sunshine and snow seasons around the new urban core: an ecological restoration to provide climate protection and naturally contained urban growth. A wetland trail will connect the urban area to the lagoon, shifting from a static to a dynamic landscape. Jury point of view The project takes advantage of the existing resources on the site, adding simple but effective elements. The existing buildings are re-shaped, giving them a new identity, and they are complemented with residential towers that increase local density. In this sense the proposal works with the memory and values of the site but also with their future, using this hybridization with new elements as a means to generate new synergies and revitalise shared urban spaces. At the territorial or landscape level, the eco-path complements the urban-path and also incorporates social issues.