Kristinehamn (SE) winner
Mario Benedetto Assisi (IT)
Giulia Pozzi (IT)
Via Capo delle Volte 6
Irene Toselli (IT)
architect
44121 Ferrara, Italy
Giuseppe Crispino (IT)
Andrea Pozzani (IT)
T. +39 3281638729
Valentina Milani (IT)
student in architecture
info@inoutarchitettura.com
architects
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78 Responsive system Team point of view Responsive system emphasizes dynamic processes, resilience and adaptation through time, reactivating cultural and ecological dynamics at the water’s edge, accommodating the fluctuations of the river and the lake. The project responds to the hydrological, urban and ecological conditions that characterize the city of Kristinehamn as it meets the river. Rather that proposing an isolated answer, we identify a system of urban voids that can be connected and activated within a responsive framework for ecological and urban change. Moving beyond engineering, we envision the site as a dynamic water filter that supports a wide range of urban programs. The transition from river to land is thus seen as a gradient from wet to dry, a gradient evident in time, movement, vegetation, and in changing depth. Jury point of view The project tackles the existing flooding problems at the site and uses infrastructure as a way to create urban identity and space, dynamic landscape and ecological and programmatic diversity. It is a complex proposal that is successful from a perspective of sustainability, ecology, urban design and social cohesion. It proposes a city where natural changes are also experienced hedonistically, offering citizens the pleasures of synchronicity of events. In this sense, time – perhaps more than space – becomes the determinant of urban planning.
Site plan. The park
Constructed Wetlands. Stormwater release into the river