Sollentuna Boulevard
(2018) AAHM01 20181Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- This work focuses on the southern part of Sollentuna municipality and the adjacent suburbs of Kista, Husby and Akalla located in the northernmost part of Stockholm municipality, which henceforth will be referred to as “Kista”.
The urban core of Sollentuna/Kista is strategically located both close to Stockholm but also along the north going road towards both Arlanda airport and Swedens fourth city, the university city of Uppsala. Also the old marketplace of Sollentna is situated at a natural crossroads between a fjord (Edsviken) and a large north-south going lake (Norrviken) where roads connecting the densely populated western suburbs and the wealthy but sparsely populated eastern ones intersect. This historical crossroads has become the... (More) - This work focuses on the southern part of Sollentuna municipality and the adjacent suburbs of Kista, Husby and Akalla located in the northernmost part of Stockholm municipality, which henceforth will be referred to as “Kista”.
The urban core of Sollentuna/Kista is strategically located both close to Stockholm but also along the north going road towards both Arlanda airport and Swedens fourth city, the university city of Uppsala. Also the old marketplace of Sollentna is situated at a natural crossroads between a fjord (Edsviken) and a large north-south going lake (Norrviken) where roads connecting the densely populated western suburbs and the wealthy but sparsely populated eastern ones intersect. This historical crossroads has become the most heavily trafficked interchange in Sweden, and this will intensify as the new Stockholm Bypass highway opens by 2030, which will connect this interchange in Häggvik directly to the more populous but less work place dense suburbs south of Stockholm.
This bypass will take the name E4 from the road that now divides Sollentuna from Kista as it heads towards central Stockholm. This road (also called Uppsalavägen) will, if nothing is done, remain as a highway even after the bypass is finished. However, the land surrounding the present highway is very attractive and due to its strategic location, Kista has turned into the tech hub of Sweden and next to central Stockholm it is the largest business district in the capitol region.
Along the highway, planning of high density, mixed use neighbourhoods is on-going and whilst I was working with a competition during my internship in 2016 about developing one of these quite unhospitable properties called “Kilen” I started thinking about the elephant in the room: The highway. If this real estate, situated on both sides of the highway that follows the legal border dividing Sollentuna from Kista, is so valuable, why not invest money in transforming the noisy highway that soon will be relieved from much traffic by the Stockholm Bypass into a vital urban artery, not only for both traffic and business, but also for daily life and culture, as well as for architecture and art.
Sollentuna/Kista is already Swedens 5th most populous urban area and a vibrant business center. It is however not considered a proper city. It lacks historic significance and the built characteristics that constitutes a city. Nevertheless it has the potential to transform into a real city, just as many villages did at the turn of the 20th century. Yet this requires that we notice and remove the previously mentioned elephant. Only if the barrier is turned into an artery and if this transformation becomes a cultural and architectural catalyst, only then can Sollentuna and Kista stop being two separate suburbs and become ONE city.
Stockholm is being built a bypass, this project suggests that this new road truly becomes a bypass, in the sense that the highway that has divided Sollentuna from Kista should be relieved from more though-traffic than an urban environment can handle. Furthermore it studies how this large intervention can be used to support small scale city building where the free initiative is allowed space, and where many independent agents can act, and over time find an informal common understanding, in order to create a vital, contemporary city building tradition. (Less)
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- author
- Nygren, Oskar
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- organization
- course
- AAHM01 20181
- year
- 2018
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
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- Swedish
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- 9141414
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The urban core of Sollentuna/Kista is strategically located both close to Stockholm but also along the north going road towards both Arlanda airport and Swedens fourth city, the university city of Uppsala. Also the old marketplace of Sollentna is situated at a natural crossroads between a fjord (Edsviken) and a large north-south going lake (Norrviken) where roads connecting the densely populated western suburbs and the wealthy but sparsely populated eastern ones intersect. This historical crossroads has become the most heavily trafficked interchange in Sweden, and this will intensify as the new Stockholm Bypass highway opens by 2030, which will connect this interchange in Häggvik directly to the more populous but less work place dense suburbs south of Stockholm.
This bypass will take the name E4 from the road that now divides Sollentuna from Kista as it heads towards central Stockholm. This road (also called Uppsalavägen) will, if nothing is done, remain as a highway even after the bypass is finished. However, the land surrounding the present highway is very attractive and due to its strategic location, Kista has turned into the tech hub of Sweden and next to central Stockholm it is the largest business district in the capitol region.
Along the highway, planning of high density, mixed use neighbourhoods is on-going and whilst I was working with a competition during my internship in 2016 about developing one of these quite unhospitable properties called “Kilen” I started thinking about the elephant in the room: The highway. If this real estate, situated on both sides of the highway that follows the legal border dividing Sollentuna from Kista, is so valuable, why not invest money in transforming the noisy highway that soon will be relieved from much traffic by the Stockholm Bypass into a vital urban artery, not only for both traffic and business, but also for daily life and culture, as well as for architecture and art.
Sollentuna/Kista is already Swedens 5th most populous urban area and a vibrant business center. It is however not considered a proper city. It lacks historic significance and the built characteristics that constitutes a city. Nevertheless it has the potential to transform into a real city, just as many villages did at the turn of the 20th century. Yet this requires that we notice and remove the previously mentioned elephant. Only if the barrier is turned into an artery and if this transformation becomes a cultural and architectural catalyst, only then can Sollentuna and Kista stop being two separate suburbs and become ONE city.
Stockholm is being built a bypass, this project suggests that this new road truly becomes a bypass, in the sense that the highway that has divided Sollentuna from Kista should be relieved from more though-traffic than an urban environment can handle. Furthermore it studies how this large intervention can be used to support small scale city building where the free initiative is allowed space, and where many independent agents can act, and over time find an informal common understanding, in order to create a vital, contemporary city building tradition.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Sollentuna Boulevard}},
year = {{2018}},
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