SIA. A case study on continuous development within the existing urban fabric.
(2018) AAHM10 20182Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- The world is in transition. Europe is a Europe of transition. And so is the city; an incomplete, ever-changing and complex construct.
While life itself is built upon the concept of change, organic order and vitality, society is currently finding itself struggling not to fall behind time. The Industrial Revolution has led to greater productivity and larger economic turnovers. Developments picked up speed and lives have been changed radically ever since. Digitalisation amplified the sharp acceleration of our time, characterised by a significantly high turnover in knowledge and driving developments are increasingly out of control for humans. Living in this fast-moving environment implies difficulties in making predictions about the... (More) - The world is in transition. Europe is a Europe of transition. And so is the city; an incomplete, ever-changing and complex construct.
While life itself is built upon the concept of change, organic order and vitality, society is currently finding itself struggling not to fall behind time. The Industrial Revolution has led to greater productivity and larger economic turnovers. Developments picked up speed and lives have been changed radically ever since. Digitalisation amplified the sharp acceleration of our time, characterised by a significantly high turnover in knowledge and driving developments are increasingly out of control for humans. Living in this fast-moving environment implies difficulties in making predictions about the future, which in turn will lose their validity faster. Carrying this topic forward to the field of architecture, a contradiction between a future that grows increasingly fugacious and the long-term planning and building process is displayed. This leads to the main question of how to allow flexibility, eventualities and uncertainties within a static system, as this is how the field of architecture is perceived at first glance.
The aim of this thesis work is to strive for a design strategy identifying long-term and short-term values, which react upon existing modes of life and the structure of collectives. The case study is located in Sweden's third largest city, Malmö. The earliest and most industrialised town of Scandinavia struggled from post-industrialism and currently finds itself in times of fast growth and development. To be more precise, the study is based in Sofielunds industrial area, a unique district in Malmö. Characteristically, it hosts a wide variety of actors producing goods, services and provides culture. The development of the neighbouring area Rosengård and the implementation of two new train stops, "Rosengård" and "Persborg", initiated a process of change that will inevitably affect the industrial area of Sofielund. (Less)
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- author
- Hopfner, Magdalena LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- AAHM10 20182
- year
- 2018
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- continuous development, slow growth, existing urban fabric, Sofielund, industrial area, architecture
- language
- English
- id
- 8990258
- date added to LUP
- 2019-07-08 09:07:37
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abstract = {{The world is in transition. Europe is a Europe of transition. And so is the city; an incomplete, ever-changing and complex construct.
While life itself is built upon the concept of change, organic order and vitality, society is currently finding itself struggling not to fall behind time. The Industrial Revolution has led to greater productivity and larger economic turnovers. Developments picked up speed and lives have been changed radically ever since. Digitalisation amplified the sharp acceleration of our time, characterised by a significantly high turnover in knowledge and driving developments are increasingly out of control for humans. Living in this fast-moving environment implies difficulties in making predictions about the future, which in turn will lose their validity faster. Carrying this topic forward to the field of architecture, a contradiction between a future that grows increasingly fugacious and the long-term planning and building process is displayed. This leads to the main question of how to allow flexibility, eventualities and uncertainties within a static system, as this is how the field of architecture is perceived at first glance.
The aim of this thesis work is to strive for a design strategy identifying long-term and short-term values, which react upon existing modes of life and the structure of collectives. The case study is located in Sweden's third largest city, Malmö. The earliest and most industrialised town of Scandinavia struggled from post-industrialism and currently finds itself in times of fast growth and development. To be more precise, the study is based in Sofielunds industrial area, a unique district in Malmö. Characteristically, it hosts a wide variety of actors producing goods, services and provides culture. The development of the neighbouring area Rosengård and the implementation of two new train stops, "Rosengård" and "Persborg", initiated a process of change that will inevitably affect the industrial area of Sofielund.}},
author = {{Hopfner, Magdalena}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{SIA. A case study on continuous development within the existing urban fabric.}},
year = {{2018}},
}