THIRD NATURE . Tham & Videgård Arkitekter . FEW Agency . Ikano Bostad
We create a new and green urban space in Hyllie, that through the station house, the residentials and the station square increase a livable, diverse and vibrant city life. The station area and the masterplan are based on the existing qualities, where the city and the surrounding landscape are incorporated in one structural concept, and integrating the train tracks as an active component.
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Vision
Hyllie is the story about how a city shortly was established on a bare field and the development happened based on the city’s own needs. Today, Hyllie is a fragmented city because the existing and monofunctional enclaves, the monotonous building typology and the surrounding landscape functions as isolated elements. Hyllie is missing a holistic concept that reinforces relations between the fragmented elements, with the ambition to create an adventurous, green and livable everyday life.
We wish to suppress the fragmented city through a holistic concept, that incorporates the cities’ many structures and the surrounding landscape in one structure, integrating the train tracks as an active component. The concept aims to develop a neighborhood, that with a social and climatic balance in mind is adaptable to its context. The city nature will be integrated with the build, to ensure a green Hyllie and furthermore, integrating the nature’s processes to increase ecosystems, recreative potentials and a climatic performance in the future neighborhood. We believe this approach, contributes to a socially strong neighborhood, that release space for the social meeting between humans in public spaces and the good everyday life for the individual.
MASTERPLAN – THE DISPLACED GRID STRUCTURE
The purpose of the masterplan is to create a neighborhood, that is developed from East but organized from west. Hyllie’s existing grid structure will be united with the surrounding landscape in one structure. The neighborhood’s grid structure is displaced because of the train tracks direction, which allows space for a recreative path. Simulations of the landscape’s naturel conditions as weather and wind conditions, has determined the structure of the masterplan, with the intention of creating the best and quality enriching spaces for the users. Furthermore, the simulations are used in the three-dimensional development of the neighborhood. It means displacements and variations in height and volume is defined by microclimate, wind optimization and the amount of light in the individual home and other functions.
At west, the masterplan adapts to the landscape when the buildings orient and open towards the green landscape, and on this side, reduce in scale and density. At east, by the train tracks and the surrounding streets, the masterplan appears as a space-creating element, which amongst other reduces noise in the inner courtyard and streets.
THE RECREATIVE PATH
We wish to create a simple orientation, availability and activity in the neighborhood. It is ensured by creating natural connections, that creates spaces to intuitive movement. Everyday flow and connections within the masterplan is optimized by organizing easy movement in the streets with room for public, green urban spaces that strengthen city life, communities and friendships.
The train tracks and the new walking bridge, we create as a natural liaison to a close-connected city life. It is strengthened by the visible and recreative program of the terrain that stretches along the train tracks. This new path serves to function as an infrastructural connection, a noise barrier, create adventurous and sensuous spaces and display Hyllie’s identity at the arrival with train. The recreative path is created by merging nature into urban spaces, based on human’s movement, activity and curiosity in every form. The nature will create room for various experiences, where the residents and schoolkids for example can botanize and learn about the wild, Swedish flora and fauna. The variation of level in the terrain will create small hills for running, play, tumbling or tobogganing. The path becomes a holistic element, that creates a united, active, identity-building and vivid path for everybody’s use in Hyllie.
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THE STATION SQUARE AS THE NEW MEETING POINT
The ambition for Hyllie’s new station square is to create the city’s new, central gathering space, that adds new values to the neighborhood and meanwhile solves infrastructural challenges. Many directions crosses at the station square, and this pattern of movement underlies the configuration of the three buildings and the square.
We have developed the area with the ambition to include various functions, that establish and ensure life around the clock. The station house and the two other buildings, will include public functions at ground-floor. The station house will accommodate business and the two other houses will accommodate residentials. The inspiration behind the station house is based on the character of an old station house, that includes functions connected to traveler’s needs. The public functions in the proposal are among other a Food Court, book café, pentaquin bar, winter garden, auditorium for big events, arboriculture and greenhouses on the roof. In a close connection the area will support and facilitate a multifarious, vivid and vibrant city life.
The vulnerable road users are priority in the proposal. The level free access offers complete availability and close relation between the inside and outside. The proposal favors bicyclists with an easily infrastructure between an underground bicycle parking space with direct access to the platforms, the station house and the rest of the neighborhood.
VIVID, TEACHING AND GREEN NEIGHBORHOOD
In our proposal, the nature makes up the frame and stage floor to the everyday life and city life. The meeting between the nature’s casual effect, the various terrain and the building’s geometry create high sensuous urban spaces, where nature’s processes are integrated. This meeting is reinforced as a pedagogical sensibility, that invites to reflect upon the good life and our acts in the world. The sensuous life must always be one of Hyllie’s qualities, both at the public station square and throughout the small urban spaces in the masterplan. Nature’s processes as for example rainwaters flow, plants evaporation and trees variability, is displayed in the urban spaces and thereby are humans introduced to the hidden relations in nature, that we normally are separated from in cities. Working with an inviting type of urban space where the users live in close relation to the nature, strengthen the individual and the community’s initiative and life value.
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Client: Malmö Municipality
Program: Masterplan and development of station area
Place: Hyllie, Malmö, Sweeden
Type: Competition
Areal: 12.000 m2 (site) + 54.000 m2 (the three buildings included in the masterplan)
Team: THIRD NATURE + Tham & Videgård Arkitekter + FEW Agency + Ikano Bostad
Period: 2017. Completed.
