Emplacement

We can see Hammarö territory like a sum of different systems: Urban, Architectural, Mobility, Landscape and Social. Every layer is defined by a very strong connection with nature, that is the  Identity of the place and its inhabitants.

Natural processes are the driving force of the project, considering nature by three different apectss: environment, heritage and time.

Project considers connection an re-connection like the most important available tools to generate a new natural equilibrium in the place.

Actually existing buildings are not connected with the environment. The lack of pedestrians, bikes and mobility has created an abandoned landscape. Environment and its ecological balance can be  restored developing a new paths system between lagoon and the future town center, between nature and community. This project will create meaning and feeling by wing elements of the historic heritage of the land.

Utilizing the existing structures as an outline for the development, project will allow a permanent urbanistic and architectonic design strategy ready to future growth or decrease of the area. Future development will incorporate cultural elements to the existing urban plan. This heritage of Hammaro concerns:

The existence of pavilions with its old uses; the presence of the long-time paths and its connection between lagoon, farm and towns; typical Swedish rural Landscape with his woods and fields. Design strategy regenerates all these physical characters achieving a restored cultural landscape. At last the project gives prominence to the Time like expression of nature and life cycle, and not like an economical parameter.

Project doesn’t look for a fast urbanism, a totally solved masterplan with a new well-defined urban form. To produce an organic and healthy Hammaro community, we need time and a progressive growth. For an efficient integration of the proposal with social and economical environment, the growth will be divided in different phases like an important resource, not only as an economic point of view, but an opportunity to development architecture with logical of maximum flexibility and progressive adaption. Duration of every phase should depend from natural rhythms of social and economical growth.

Used tools are rehabilitation and  recycling of existing buildings, urban structures and landscape. This project is trying to achieve a model of development that will conserve and adapt the original buildings as main idea to rejuvenate the environment.

The first phase is a social-economical reactivation: re-use the existing pavilions to generate economic growth and social activities that will promote “new” facilities. 

This renovation of the existing pavilions need to be attractive to the younger generation; strategy is to improve coworking and new technologies companies and  creative factories, mixed up with new entrepreneurial activities concerning land use and heritage, like agriculture, breeding, fishing, handcraft, arts, education and hospitality.

To fulfill the necessary this has to be an ever evolving project that will always preserve and utilize the existing structures.