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STP - Stockholm City Gate

PROJECT Stockholm City Gate CLIENT Stockholm City Transport Authority COLLABORATORS Grontmij Spacescape BUDGET Unknown SIZE 58 Ha LOCATION Stockholm, SE STATUS 1st Prize, 2010

NOISE FROM THE HIGHWAYS

How do you put Stockholm on the world map and create a unique landmark that is more than a visual icon?
NOISE BARRIERS AND TREES PROTECT THE SURROUNDING AREAS

The planned Hjulsta Intersection 15 km north of Stockholm where two European highways bypasses converge into a three level intersection, amounts to the largest infrastructure project in Sweden. The highways create physical and visual barriers between the surrounding neighborhoods and divide the area into four parts. Our proposal, the Energy Valley, re-connects these in an un-hierarchical and democratic way through a continuous circular bike and pedestrian loop aligned with public buildings and functions, including a shopping- and sports centre, a hammam and a mosque which will attract visitors from Stockholm and its suburbs. By introducing natural environments of differing characters within the loop, the Energy Valley turns into a pie shaped park of pine-and oak forests, wetlands, grass lawns and hilly terrain creating the journey along the loop a multifaceted experience for cyclists and pedestrians. In Hjulsta new buildings and facades are embedded in the existing structure and new residential typologies have been added to include greater housing varieties. In order to mark the visitors entrance to Stockholm we have designed an illuminating oating sphere that reects the surrounding. This icon is constantly updated and constantly in motion. 30% of the oating spheres surface, which turns towards the sun, has solar cells that can produce enough energy to heat the air inside in order to keep the suspense and at the same time provide enough energy for 235 single-family household.

HOW DO YOU CREATE A LANDMARK, WHEN ALL YOU CAN SEE IS THE SKY?

THE REFLECTIVE SPHERE TRANSFORMS THE LANDSCAPE INTO A LANDMARK

SOLAR CELLS PRODUCE ENERGY TO THE BUILDINGS IN THE AREA

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STP - Stockholm City Gate

PROJECT Stockholm City Gate CLIENT Stockholm City Transport Authority COLLABORATORS Grontmij Spacescape BUDGET Unknown SIZE 58 Ha LOCATION Stockholm, SE STATUS 1st Prize, 2010

How do you put Stockholm on the world map and create a unique landmark that is more than a visual icon?
The planned Hjulsta Intersection 15 km north of Stockholm where two European highways bypasses converge into a three level intersection, amounts to the largest infrastructure project in Sweden. The highways create physical and visual barriers between the surrounding neighborhoods and divide the area into four parts. Our proposal, the Energy Valley, re-connects these in an un-hierarchical and democratic way through a continuous circular bike and pedestrian loop aligned with public buildings and functions, including a shopping- and sports centre, a hammam and a mosque which will attract visitors from Stockholm and its suburbs. By introducing natural environments of differing characters within the loop, the Energy Valley turns into a pie shaped park of pine-and oak forests, wetlands, grass lawns and hilly terrain creating the journey along the loop a multifaceted experience for cyclists and pedestrians. In Hjulsta new buildings and facades are embedded in the existing structure and new residential typologies have been added to include greater housing varieties. In order to mark the visitors entrance to Stockholm we have designed an illuminating oating sphere that reects the surrounding. This icon is constantly updated and constantly in motion. 30% of the oating spheres surface, which turns towards the sun, has solar cells that can produce enough energy to heat the air inside in order to keep the suspense and at the same time provide enough energy for 235 single-family household.