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EUROPAN 15
Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Total site area: 56 ha Project year: 2019 Team Architects: Naya Stergiou, Eleni Oureilidou Contributor: Electra Kalodimidou, Civil Engineer |
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The competition task covers an old warehouse building and its surrounding plot, as well as a crane and its engine room, remnants of a time when the port of Helsingborg was bustling with life from vessels loading and shipping off. The task is to re-use and re-purpose the warehouse and crane engine room into a productive meeting place in the city, while adding building volumes to accommodate public activities and housing units within the project site. The competition proposal should present a use for the old port warehouse; crane with engine room; as well as the plot as a whole. The new content should complement Oceanhamnen (the Ocean Harbour) and help connect the segregated neighbourhoods ’North’ and ’South’ (”Norr” and ”Söder”) of the city centre. The building should make the district, and the city as a whole, more dynamic.
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Like a stretching hand, the strategy aims to bring North and South district together. Flat and sculptural pieces inspired by the Swedish nature respond through their interplay to crucial issues, like noise, pollution, flooding and mobility. The project site becomes a symbiotic neighborhood where housing, workplace, art and recreation interlock, promoting social equity and productivity. The area is configured by a series of adaptive urban elements that spread like the dissection pieces of a tangram puzzle. Magasin is revitalized as an art hub, establishing a self-sufficient economy where ‘goods’ produced inhouse are exhibited and merchandized, whereas employees can live in apartments integrated in the building. The crane is redefined as a media totem gate to the redesigned area.
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