europan 12 - Kristinehamn
The condition of contemporary cities is the discontinuity of the space that is fragmented and divided by the increasing number of boundaries in a myriad of disconnected spaces. The new inner urban park is counter designed as a link to connected different parts of the city and linked to the existing green structures and paths, plannig the future development of the city around the urban park.
In the Kristinehamn’s cityscape the landscape is the main actor of the new public space, a place where the nature is a scenic design and the park is a stage for people life. The new inner city park interacts with the existing green surrounding infrastructures, working like a zipper linking the center to the new commercial area.
The new urban space is a place where there is a deep integration between the city and the public space, the nature and the landscape. This new urban place contains many facilities for collective and shared activities that help the cultural exchange and the integration between different generations, residents and
immigrants, locals and tourists, between needs of all demographic age groups and varied interests.
The new inner city park become a hub of structures for many different activities for the leisure time. There are facilities for sport, for concerts, for playing music, for hobbies, for meetings, for city or group events and for wellness. This hub works for the locals and also is an attraction for the tourists and visitors in all the seasons.
The void is the constitutive element of the new urban spaces: the emptiness that elsewhere is simply only the space between things, in the project becomes the primary structure of the city, a void that finds its reasons and its viability in relation to the context of which conveys the flows.
The spatial quality of the park predetermines not only a few options for use, but rather provides vast areas for a creative and informal adoption of the location by the visitor. All elements of the park were designed for multipurpose uses, for a flexible utilization, for different activities and for being used during all day and during the night.
