Portfolio 2022 by Teresa Arana Aristi

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teresa arana aristi 02-02-1992 02-02-1992 Drottningtorget 4:1102 Drottningtorget 4:1102 Malmö, Sweden Malmö, Sweden Phone Number. +46760785226 Phone Number. +46760785226 teresa.arana02@gmail.com teresa.arana02@gmail.com Education

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index KNOWLEDGE CLUSTER Urban Design Sustainable Urban Dynamics pg. 06-15

THE ISLAND IN BETWEEN Urban Design Master Thesis pg. 16-27

UP & UNDER Urban Design Europan 15 Competition pg. 28-37

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RE:MEDIATE Urban Design Europan 15 Competition pg. 38-47

SUDBURY’S LIFELINES Urban Design Sudbury 2050 Urban Design Ideas Competition pg. 48-57

PIRS PRZYSZŁOŚCI PLAC LINEARNY Urban Design Gydinia Pier of the Futrue Competition pg. 58-69

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knowledge cluster

Urban Design | Master Plan Proposal Sustainable Urban Dynamics Master in Sustainable Urban Design, Lund University Year | 2018

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knowledge cluster

Location: Dujiangyan, Chengdu, China

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Regional Strategy- Connecting the Inudstrty clusters with Inovation and water SECONDARY ROADS MAIN ROADS RAILWAY HIGHWAY

SHIFANG

BLUE NETWORK

DEYANG

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT HUB ZHONGJIANG

DUJIANGYAN

WUHU HEALTH PARK

GUANGHAN

PENGZHOU

IRRIGATION SYSTEM

R&D HUB

JINGTANG

R&D HUB

XINDU

PIXIAN

CHENGDU WENJIANG CHONGZHOU DAYI

SHUANGLIU

LONGQUANYI ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION

QIONGLAI

HIGH TECHNOLOGY

XINJING

R&D HUB

CULTURE AND FOOD

LIFE SCIENCES

KNOWLEDGE CLUSTER uses the existing natural and cultural resources of the city – the river, the Irrigation System and the ancient city center- and mixes it with the current structure of the site to enhance all the potentials we found on it: the train station, a hydropower plant that is no longer in use, a school and its closeness to the campus of the Sichuan Agricultural University.

The hydropower plant is used as a water management and sustainability center and new infrastructure is placed to improve the hospital on site, expand the University premises and new training institutions and cultural facilities were added.

Traffic System

Functions Potentials

Dujiangyan has a long history with water and the site is part of that history, with one of the river streams running along it from west to east. In a larger scale the city is in constant relation to water but it’s not easily accessible as a user; in the north west side the Irrigation System has become a great tourist attraction and there is a new water health park close to the industrial area that has been developed in the north eastern part. Our site is located in between these two and a new green and blue link is placed to connect it all; thus, enhancing the competitive edge for the tourism industry while improving the quality of life for residents, which was a priority.

Green Spaces

The train station of the high-speed railway that allows Dujiangyan to be connected to Chengdu City in less than an hour is close the site and one of the main reasons behind the concept of Knowledge Cluster. The idea is to create a new type of Transport Oriented Development based on a knowledge economy, with research, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship as the drivers, instead of consumerism. Two clusters are placed on the western and eastern side of the site, connecting north and south while anchoring existing educational facilities with new innovation and research hubs.

R&D HUB

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Master Plan

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Perspective from Knowledge Hub in between new housing blocks

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Detail Plan

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Axonometry Section

Green Link

Tea Houses Linear Park

Existing Community

New Housing Block Training Facilites

Start Up Offices

Street Network

Green Link

Knowledge Hubs

Built Structure

Concept Diagrams

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Perspective from Green Link towards Training Facilities

Longitudinal Section Creativity Hub

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Green Link

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the island in betweeen

Creating a Sustainable District by using its local green qualities as backbone for the development

Urban Design | Research and Master Plan Proposal Master Thesis Master in Sustainable Urban Design, Lund University Year | 2019

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the island in between

Creating a Sustainable District by using its local green qualities as backbone for the development Location: Aalborg, Denmark

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Aalborg, the though little big city

Cities worldwide are facing an increasing percentage of population living in urban areas; Every year more and more people living in the countryside settle in the cities and municipalities have the challenge to keep up with this demand while at the same time planning a development that will avoid further sprawl towards the open landscape. The aim of this project is to reflect on the possibilities to transform isolated and monofunctional areas in the cities by using their unique local qualities as a sustainable solution to deal with this challenge; the ideas were implemented on a specific area of the city of Aalborg in Denmark.

The area was designed with a very clear differentiation between functions and a highly efficient traffic infrastructure in the early 1960’s which lead to a neighborhood that has many physical and mental barriers for its residents and an urban structure that seems to work as individual islands with unclear connections but non the less very special qualities.

One of these islands, where the villages of Øster Sundby and Nørre Tranders lie, has yet to be included in the Municipality’s strategy to enhance East Aalborg and has a great potential to become a sustainable district by using its local green qualities as backbone for the development. The project ‘The island in between Creating a Sustainable District by using its local green qualities as backbone for the development’ intends to create synergy between the site and the ongoing investments in the surrounding areas using nature as the main driver; the landscape ties everything together through a careful use of the topography, respect of the existing built form, integration of functions, densification and mobility.

From a reputation of an industrial and trading city, Aalborg has changed into a contemporary university city, with a strong development of creative clusters in knowledge-based industries.

Nowadays the Vækstaksen, an urban growth axis set by the municipality, has become the driving force in the city’s development to avoid further sprawl. A great part of East Aalborg belongs to this axis and is currently undergoing a rapid transformation with investments that include a new university hospital, a bus rapid transit (BRT) line and the expansion of the university and the The project creates a strong synergy between its immediate surroundings and the city in general because it uses the Aalborg local industrial harbor, among others.

Municipality’s Sustainability Flower and the main principles of Vandkunsten Architects’s ‘Landscape in Between’ strategy for the development of East Aalborg as guidelines for the design.

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Perspective view at public space from the green office towards the green spine

I decided to use Aalborg Municipality’s Sustainability Flower and the main principles of Vandkunsten Architects’s ‘Landscape in Between’ strategy for the development of East Aalborg as guidelines for the design to create a strong synergy between the site, its immediate surroundings and the city in general. The site needs to stop being an isolated and monofunctional area in Aalborg; therefore, it became clear that its essential to connect the site on a larger scale and the design guidelines landed on three strategies related to landscape and mobility to achieve this.

Aalborg has a very special landscape with strong ties in the direction of the Fjord, the hills and the green areas surrounding the built from. The municipality is already working towards a more cohesive Green and Blue structure and the main concept of Vandkunsten Architects’s project is based, as its name says it, on the landscape.

When looking into the municipality’s land use, there are already plenty recreational areas in the city, some are parks and others are related to sports facilities; a really big part of the site falls under the category of nature and culture areas and I wanted respect this as much as possible.

to southwest direction that will connect the whole city to the quarry lake when this opens for recreation in 2052 and the housing areas of East Aalborg with Sohngårdsholmparken and the city center. The spine also follows the existing pedestrian and bike passages to extend the green towards Signalbakken on the west, the River Valleys to the east and the City Park to the south, both of which are part of ‘Landscape in Between’.

The Astrupstiforbindelsen was identified as a high priority focus area for East Aalborg and it will become the future north-southbound backbone in the district - a new main street that can connect the housing area in the north with the BRT, the University area and the new University Hospital to the south.

This project is the one closest to the site but once again it doesn’t seem to have a clear intention to bring this island closer to the rest of the district. The idea is to continue the Astrup connection (in the nodes where the project stops nowadays) to create a loop that goes through the Green Spine and then back south through the Central Park towards the south, especially the BRT, because it means a direct link the rest of the city. The loop also ensures the connection with functions located on the surBy using the protected forest areas and taking advantage roundings of the site, like the Kælkebakken park, sevof the topography I placed a green spine on a northeast eral schools in the area and the quarry lake.

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Site identity diagrams

+50m Level +40m Level

Landscape

Topography

+30m Level +20m Level +10m Level +1m Level Quarry lake and ponds

Protected Grassland Protected Forest Quarry Lake and Ponds

Church and graveyard Allotment gardens Residential areas - More than 3 stories buildings

Landscape Strategy

Residential areas - Less than 3 stories buildings Mining areas

Traffic System

Functions

Schools and daycares Recreational areas Agriculture related areas and facilites Industry and business areas

E45 Highway Main roads Secondary roads

Pedestrian Routes and Connections

Public Transportation

Mobility Strategy Bus Line 17 Bus Line 11 Bus Line 18 Bus Line 5 Bus Stops

Bike and pedetrians only routes Bike and pedestrians only underpassages and bridges

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Master Plan

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Extending the Forest

Green Structure

New Forest

Forest

Existing Protected Forest

Green Spine Semi-public green areas

Public Spaces

Infrastructure

Main road for public transportation

Public Spaces

Road for local resdients and users

Astrup Path Forest Green Spine

Functions

Innovation Cluster Housing Typology 3 - possibility to have retail on the first floor

Density

Housing Typology 2 Housing Typology 1 Mixed Uses -retail and offices

University Campus Community Center Bike & Ride Pavillions Green Office Park & Ride Library

3 to 5 stories high

Market

2 to 3 stories high

Culture Center

1 to 2 stories high

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Housing Typologies Housing Typology 1

Housing Typology 2

Housing Typology 3

iThe overall goal is to integrate the new settlement into the urban fabric in a way that they provide a positive contribution to the existing residential area; Creating alternative housing for the detached house, aiming for closer forms of settlement while clarifying the edges towards the landscape by respecting the changes in the topography and a hierarchy in the transition between private and public spaces. In some of the semi-public green areas in between the new and old housing, the Astup path will go through to create new connections within the district and its surroundings.

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The new homes try to combine the following three factors: •Different housing types- single family housing, rowhouses or apartment buildings.

•Different residents- doctors, nurses, students, temporary researcher, knowledge worker, university employee, elderly or families.

•Different places with different qualities- types of housing - size, price and ownership; services - transport, shopping and public spaces and nature.

Detail Plan

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Perspective view at the green spine

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up and under

Reaching Proximities in the Hyvinkää station area

Urban Design Europan 15 Productive Cities Two - Competition In collaboration with URBAN 10 Alice Lemaire Anna Nötzel Dominika Misterka Emeline Lex Fernando Gonzalez-Camino Marcin Żebrowski Martin Näf Tony Nielsen Victor Ohlsson Year | 2019

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up and under

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Hyvinkää, Finland

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Regional Strategy

A multi-purpose recreational railpath to connect the station area with the greater context and key attractions in the region.

Up & Under is a proposal which seeks to create a coherent, intuitive and pedestrian-focused district around the Hyvinkää train station area which more seamlessly integrates the west side of the city with the east side into a harmonious city centre. The proposal further aims to bridge the barriers with both overground and underground solutions, utilizing new levels and existing topography on site, providing a strong green presence, and densifying within the immediate vicinity of the train station to create an attractive, mixed-use centre combining residential with productive activities and celebrating Hyvinkaa’s industrial legacies.

The proposal provides a lively station area neighbourhood for those who commute, work or live within the city. Hyvinkää station area serves as an attractive entrance and welcome point to the city from the train station. By better integrating cycle infrastructure, bike parking facilities, dedicated park-and-ride facilities, as well as a new local bus station and regional bus terminal; all within a close proximity of a 5-minute walk, a more coherent station area is created with pedestrians at the forefront of the design. At the same time, by improving existing and creating new connections, the site area becomes more accessible within the four key areas themselves as well as enhances the connection between the west side The proposal seeks to harness these existing connections which of the city with the east. makes Hyvinkää an important node while unlocking new, potential connections, generating vibrant underground spaces and over- By doing so, the design interweaves both sides of the city by ground solutions, which more seamlessly connects the city, employ- making them equally attractive places, providing new social nodes, ment areas and significant recreational nodes in the greater region. and connecting key areas in the city and the region.

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Master Plan

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Urban Context Diagrams The 5 Connectors

Non-motorized Accessibility

Traffic Network

Outdoor Spaces

Section from Silta Youth Center to Renewed Asema (Station) School via areas A-C-D

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Building Heights

Detail Plan

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Perspective View at the Underpass Plaza

Perspective View at new pedestrian bridge to Asema (Station) School

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Axonometry at Hyvinkää Station Area

Active Bridges

Pedestrian Flow

Handicap Accessibility

Bicycle Infrastructure

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re:mediate

Introducing an Adaptive and Productive Urban Ecosystem in Gässlösa Urban Design Europan 15 Productive Cities Two - Competition SPECIAL MENTION WINNERS In collaboration with URBAN 10 Alice Lemaire Anna Nötzel Dominika Misterka Emeline Lex Fernando Gonzalez-Camino Marcin Żebrowski Martin Näf Tony Nielsen Victor Ohlsson Year | 2019

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re:mediate

Location: Borås, Sweden

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Regional Strategy within the larger Borås

1 Connect

Through different activated and productive natural assets, the site becomes an important green value connector in Borås. A diversity in natural assets will be resilient and reactive under changing environmental circumstances, forming the heart and foundation of the site’s development.

The synthesis between living, working, nature, and recreation are the main drivers for the design proposal. Ultimately creating a productive cradle-to-cradle neighborhood. The vision is that Gässlösa will become its own kind of ecosystem, in which a symbiosis between the green, built, and the living is able to support the needs of people and nature on the same level. This will create a cycle of functions in which everything that is put into it, will mutually define, impact, and support something else.

2 Relate

The flexible grid development follows various given circumstances on site, such as topography levels or views towards the Viskan river and the mountainous surroundings. The new network sensitively incorporates the heritage of landscape and built structure into the new design.

3 Educate

The inner loop ties together various urban and green fabrics of the site and its surroundings. Educational, public, and cultural facilities follow this network of public spaces as different anchor points within the area, creating an accessible public realm that is not only exclusively commercially used.

4 Produce

Different sized businesses have the opportunity to (re-)settle in various large, medium, or small scale business typologies on site. Furthermore will short term rentals, between 2-5 years, be facilitated in order to ensure a renewal of the businesses in certain party of the site.

The design will be part of a larger context. Materials, collected from the site’s waste management stations, is planned to be delivered to the research facilities in the University and Textile Fashion Centre, and through new technology, the recycled materials may be turned into new textiles.

Furthermore, biomass gathered from the site’s phytoremediated plants will be delivered to Sobacken power plant and in return, supply Borås with heat and electricity. The design is part of a larger municipal strategy to connect surrounding landscape together with urban green areas in a north-south axis.

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Master Plan

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The Local Ecosystem diagram

The municipality of Borås inhabits approximately 112,000 residents with a population increase of over 1,000 people per year.

Therefore, Borås is a city that is growing, with about 140,000 citizens projected by 2035. To meet this challenge, our proposal is based on three important issues: rethinking urban expansion, the place of production in the city and the exchange of resources.

concept can be transformed into a concrete proposal tailored. The imagined visual and physical connections between the city center and the south of Borås become the main axes of development.

Along the river, a productive green heart is produced. Seasonal agriculture, greenhouses, harvest festivals and phytoremediation are all ways to activate and clean this meander.

Thanks to a solid concept, the project quickly established a schematic ecosystem that brings together all the necessary flows for the creation of a productive district. The place of resources in everyday life has been redesigned so that waste from one system feeds another. From the scale of the building to that of the district, energy, biomass, water, waste and ideas are constantly shared.

Thanks to an existing urban network, a progressive densification phase can take place. The diversity of housing, as well as the numerous public structures, are essential to guarantee intergenerationality. The production sites S, M and L are articulated along the various arteries and the buildings already present are reused during the early stages. Multifunctional, interior and exterior spaces are easily transformed on the same day or throughout more The site is the fundamental element between the concept and than 50 years. Re:mediate gives life to a neighborhood focused on the master plan. Through the analysis of key assets such as the sharing resources and establishes a new relationship with producViskan River or the proximity of the Sobacken power plant, the tion in the city.

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Axonometry

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Adaptative and Productive Blocks

A respectful phasing

Phase 1 - Today

Phase 2 - 0 to 10 years

Phase 3 - 10 to 15 years

Phase 4 - 15 to 25 years

The site now holds industrial production. It is key to propose a layout and a phasing that will ensure a progressive development of the blocks. In the early stages, both new and existing functions cohabit. Later on, the block densifies and diversifies. As the existing structures go, more typologies start to appear to ensure a wide range of housing types: individual houses, apartments, co-housing, student housing, rentals. The goal is to provide food as locally as the block, limiting «heavy car-oriented» movements.

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Urban Context Diagrams Green and Blue

Public Space Sequence

Street Network

Uses

Section from Jössagatan to the green heart

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Perspective View towards the Main Square Viskatorget

Perspective View from Productive Green Hearth

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sudbury’s lifelines

Vision 2050 for the Downtown Core

Urban Design Sudbury 2050 Urban Design Ideas Competition In collaboration with URBAN 10 Dominika Misterka Emeline Lex Fernando Gonzalez-Camino Marcin Żebrowski Year | 2020

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sudbury’s lifelines Location: Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

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Sudbury’s Lifelines articulates a vision for the revitalization of the urban core of Greater Sudbury by introducing new lines of life through the city and region. Sudbury’s downtown, currently characterized by surface parking, vacant properties, and inward-facing hubs of activity, has enormous potential surrounding its history, geography, and social environment to generate a vibrant, unique, and coherent urban core.

rounding neighbourhoods and new districts. The laneways become unique urban acupuncture places for social interaction, outdoor dining, live music, outdoor markets, and art. Existing parking lots are largely replaced with pocket parks and squares and infill parking garage buildings are placed in strategic locations within the blocks

The aim is to increase the density of the urban core with a new At the regional level, the proposal establishes a Greater Sudbury Art District, Rainbow Retail & Recycling District, Mining InGreen Loop: a multi-use recreational path that strengthens the novation Cluster, and a new Entertainment District. All these connections of greenways, creeks and watercourses significant to areas are connected through a sequence of public parks, plazas the region. In the city centre, the Loop connects Junction Creek and squares that create a second, inner Urban Loop within the in the north and Lilly Creek in the south by establishing a green city. space corridor in the city and by transforming Paris Street into a green boulevard. The downtown plays an important role in link- New lines of life are established through the Green and Uring the gap between these significant natural assets. ban Loops and the laneways, weaving new possibilities for living, work, play and social encounters in the urban core. These new To repair missing links in the pedestrian network with unique lifelines not only add vibrancy to the downtown area but also routes that support increased walking activity, the proposal gives a connect people with the unique natural assets of the greater region: new function and life to the city’s laneways structure. It completes the creeks, the lakes, the rocky shores; where citizens and visitors a grid of pedestrian and cycling routes that connect to the sur- can enjoy throughout the year.

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Green & Blue

Public Realm sequence

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Traffic Network 2

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Master Plan

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SUDBURY VIA TRAIN STATION

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PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE

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BUS TERMINAL - TRANSIT CENTER

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PEDESTRIAN UNDERPASS - REDESIGNED

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MULTILEVEL PARKING

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URBAN LOOP

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OPEN-AIR CITY ENTRANCE SPACE

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ART DISTRICT

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MEMORIAL PARK - REDESIGNED

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RAINBOW RETAIL & RECYCLING DISTRICT

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TOM DAVIES SQUARE - REDESIGNED

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MINING INNOVATION CLUSTER

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HNATYSHYN PARK

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ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT

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PLACE DES ARTS

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FESTIVAL SQUARE

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ACTIVE LANEWAY NETWORK

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THE JUNCTION - LIBRARY, ART GALLERY & CONFERENCE CENTER

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CREEK PATH

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COMMUNITY ARENA & EVENT CENTER

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Phasing Plan PHASE 0 - YEAR 2020 OPEN-AIR CITY ENTRANCE CATALYST & IDENTIFYING POTENTIALS

PHASE 1 - YEAR 2025 DOWNTOWN INFILL DEVELOPMENT, LANEWAYS NETWORK & CREEK PATH

PHASE 2 - YEAR 2030 MINING INNOVATION CLUSTER & ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT

PHASE 3 - YEAR 2040 NEW RESIDENTIAL AND MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT

PHASE 4 - YEAR 2050 PROJECT VISION

PHASE 5 - YEAR 2060 FUTURE CONNECTIONS & RAILWAY REMOVAL

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View from the Open-Air city entrance space

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pirs przyszłości plac linearny

Future Pier - Linear Square

Urban Design Gydinia Pier of the Futrue Competition In collaboration with URBAN 10 Dominika Misterka Emeline Lex Maja Mawusi Marcin Żebrowski Year | 2021

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pirs przyszłości plac linearny

Location: Gdynia, Poland

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These zones are connected by a promenade that stretches along the historic axis of the street. This trail brings together various activities - squares, playgrounds, sports facilities and urban furniture and lush greenery. The design preservers the axis but breaks through modernist geometry of straight lines. It assumes a reversal space proportion - gives priority to pedestrians and emphasizes greenery. The aim of the project is to create a coherent space rich in features that will offer more than the very possibility of walking. These spaces will be a destination that engages the user and stimulates senses and offers a variety of experiences.

Through our design, we focused on a new mobility strategy and counteracting climate change, all through the linear square, biding together the city and the pier.

New Functions

Sequence of public spaces

Four zones

Our project highlights the current spatial qualities and the attractions of the square and the pier and enriches them with a system of spaces with different functions, a new linear square. It is a sequence of spaces which stretches for a length of 1120 m. It is divided into 4 zones - each of them with different characteristics.

New and exising green

Unfortunately, nowadays the space is not living up to it’s potential because the axis creates a massive and repetitive man-made landscape devoid of intimate places where to linger, the road traffic network is predominant and there is a lack of everyday- functions for the citizens to enjoy year-round.

New installations and buildings

The South Pier is undoubtedly the most important public space in Gdynia - tangible proof of a dynamic uprising and the city development, with constantly changing borders in the harbor. Our project respects and celebrates the historical context by highlighting the potential of the existing space. We highlight what is most valuable, the close connection between the city and the sea.

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Axonometric View

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Development Plan

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Zone B / Sensory zone - Fountain

Zone C / City sports zone

Zone D / Square in front of the Aquarium building and a view at the end of the axis / Cross Section

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Zone D / Sea zone and outdoor swimming pools

Zone D / Detail of the building at the end of the Future Pier axis / Longitudinal Section

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Visualization Zone D/ End of the Pier axis

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