OanhNguyen RopstenJunction Reflectionpaper

ROPSTEN
JUNCTION
Social infrastructure
within the SymbioCity
Oanh Nguyen Thi Kieu
ROPSTEN
JUNCTION
Social infrastructure
within the SymbioCity
Oanh Nguyen Thi Kieu

Master Dissertation of program
“International Master of Science in Architecture”,
KU Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, Campus Sint -Lucas Ghent
Author: Oanh Nguyen Thi Kieu (r0474907)

Academic promotor: Adrià Carbonell
The academic year 2016

Published in 13.06.2016,
Gent, Belgium.
Student work of Design Studio
PROMISCUOUS
ASS E M B L A G E S
T e r r i t o r y , E c o l o g y
& the Welfare State
Stockholm Royal Seaport
Stockholm, Sweden
4 Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen
Contents
FOREWORD 7 REFERENCE 58
TERRITORY 8 01. IIT MCCORMICK TRIBUNE CAMPUS CENTER 60
SITE STUDY 10 02. OSLO OPERA HOUSE 62
01. STOCKHOLM ROYAL SEAPORT 12 03. LOUVRE LENS 64
02. VISON 2030 14 04. BUILDING TECHNOLOGY 66
Construction phases 15
Symbiosis 18 INTERVENTION 68
Site visiting 20 01. CONCEPT 70
Existing ground plan 28 Spatial diagram 72
Existing pedestrian walk 29 Functional scheme 73
Movements 31 02. URBAN STRATEGY 74
03. ZOOM IN 32 03. MATERIALITY 76
Heat pump 34 Site plan 78
CHP energy harbor 36 Urban facade 79
Fly-over 38 Section AA 80
Old Lidingöbron 40 Projective map 81
Scenarios of sptial organizing 82
THEORITICAL APPROACH 42 04. ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTION 82
01. RESEARCH QUESTION 44 Ground floor 83
Infrastructure 45 Construction layers 84
Social Infrastructure 46 Section BB 85
02. STOCKHOLM CONTEXT 48
A city with an active leisure scene 52 LITERATURE 88
A closeknit city 53
03. A MATTER OF THINGS 54
04. GO WITH THE FLOW 56

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F O R E W O R D
I would like to send sincere thanks to Prof.

Adrià Carbonell with all of your guidance,
patience and words of encouragement to
choose the interesting subjects that can
provoke my architectural mindset, instead
of a safer choice.
And I also sincerely appreciate the chance

that BTC gave me this two years pro-
gramme, that virtually broadens my
knowledge and life experience.
I’m grateful for supports and understand-

ing from my family and friends
Last but not least, thanks to myself for

having enough courage to be a whole-
hearted person on the work that I’m doing
now and the future.

TERRITORY
“A territory is a geographic space, aphysical collection of qualities and characters”
_ Territorialis(m), Paola Viganò_
“An understanding of the relations among multuple rationalities, ecological and

social, can offer oppoertunities to intersect and integrate various territorial layers”
_ Territorialis(m), Paola Viganò_

“An area of land under the “A behavioural phenomenon “A appropriation of a place from a
jurisdiction of a ruler or state” associated with the organization of species or group that through this
“An area of land under the A
“space behavioural
into spheres of phenomenon
influence or A appropriation
“process defines of its aown
placeterritory
from a
jurisdiction of a _Oxford
ruler Dictionary_
or state” associated with the territories
clearly demarcated organization whichof species
and the or group that
limitation through this
of movements in
space
are madeintodistinctive
spheres of andinfluence
considered or process
a precise defines
area” its own territory
_Oxford Dictionary_ clearly
at leastdemarcated territories
partially exclusive by which
their and the limitation of movements in
are made or
occupants distinctive
definers”and considered _ Territorialis(m), Paola Viganò_
a precise area”
at least partially exclusive by their
“An area of land under the A _ Land,
“occupantsbehavioural
orterrain, phenomenon
territory,
definers” Stuart Elden_ “A appropriation of a place
_ Territorialis(m), Paola from a
Viganò_
jurisdiction of a ruler or state” associated with the organization of species or group that through this
space_ into spheres
Land, terrain, of influence
territory, or
Stuart Elden_ process defines its own territory
_Oxford Dictionary_ clearly demarcated territories which and the limitation of movements in
are made distinctive and considered a precise area”
at least partially exclusive by their
TERRITORY TERRITORIALITY
occupants or definers”
TERRITORILISM_ Territorialis(m), Paola Viganò_
TERRITORY
Physical basic TERRITORIALITY
_ Land, terrain, territory, Stuart Elden_
Condition/status/ TERRITORILISM
A form of contemporary urban
A mode of operating territory + social artifact.
Physical basic Condition/status/ A form of contemporary urban
A mode of operating territory + social artifact.
Geography of state power
TERRITORY TERRITORIALITY TERRITORILISM
Constant human element (biological A means of [re]directing attention
+ social) toward what constitute support in
Geography of state power
Constant human element (biological A contemporary
means of [re]directing attention
urban territories
Physical basic + social)
Condition/status/ toward what constitute support
A form of contemporary urban in
Political technology Human social organization has Focus on time,
contemporary lifecycles,
urban territories
changedA more
moderapidly
of operating
than biological territory + social
impermanence, biotic artifact.
and social
Political technology HumanBut
drives. social organization
in the future, the has
bio- Focus onrelations
time, lifecycles,
Geography of state power changed more rapidly
ethological than which
imperatives biological impermanence, biotic and social
Constant
drives. human
But
obscured in element
the
any future, (biological
the bio-
social-political A means of [re]directing
relations attention
ethological+imperatives
social)
interpretation which toward what constitute support in
obscured any social-political contemporary urban territories
interpretation
Political technology Human social organization has Focus on time, lifecycles,
changed more rapidly than biological impermanence, biotic and social
drives. But in the future, the bio- relations
ethological imperatives which
obscured any social-political
interpretation

SITE STUDY

A brownfield turns to be a residential
area; harbors and industrial zone live in
human settlement. That is one part of
the ambitious project Stockholm Roy-
al Seaport, Stockholm, Sweden. Mak-
ing space from a wasteland somehow
adapts the demand of extending urban
context in Stockholm. It reminds me
about the power to change and to help
of architecture.

01. S TO C K H O L M R OYA L S E A P O RT
The City of Stockholm owns 67 % of the land within its municipal boundaries, a fact
that makes it a strong actor in the regeneration and extension of the city through
both small and large developments.
The city expansions are also regulated by the municipal planning monopoly that
applies all over Sweden. The extensions of the city take thus place as large develop-
ment projects, coordinated with infrastructure and other necessities. In recent dec-
ades these expansions have taken place on industrial sites or on abandoned freight
train stations. The Royal Seaport project is being built in the port of Värtahamnen,
which is Stockholm’s largest port , (2008) 2010-2030
STOCKHOLM
ROYAL SEAPORT
STOCKHOLM CITY EXTENSIONS 2007 Source: Stad of Stockholm

02. VISON2030
Stockholm Royal Seaport (SRS) is to become a global showcase for sustainable ur-
ban design. Innovative environmental technologies and creative solutions are to be
developed, used and displayed in a world-class environmental urban district.
SRS will be largely based on old brownfield sites, and port area. Here, 10.000 new
dwellings and 30.000 new jobs are planned.By 2030, SRS is free of fossil fuels. And
by 2020, carbon emissions are lower than 1.5 tonnes per person. SRS is adapted to
future changes in climate. SRS is a part of central Stockholm, close to everything
and the place that people want to both live and work in. Also SRS has gained a
modern, environmentally friendly and welcoming entrance from the Baltic Sea.
Construction phases
3 - Loudden 3 - Frihamnen 2 - Värtahamnen 1 - Hjorthagen
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Source: Stockholm Royal Seaport - Norra Djurgårdsstaden – Vision 2030

NATIONAL LEVEL
Government Riksdag
24 ministries Swedish parliament
21 Counties 21 County Councils

Healthcare
County
Regional planning Offices
administrative
Public transport
REGIONAL LEVEL
board
A u t h o r i t i e s Storstockholm Lokaltrafik AB Co.
Public transport City network
290 Municipalities Municipal Councils Development Office

(Exploateringskontoret)
Stockholm Stockholm City Council
The biggest municipality
The City Building Office
(Stadsbyggnadskontoret)
own
The Traffic Office
LOCAL LEVEL
Stockholm harbour Co. Executive board (Trafikkontoret)

City planning Committee
Real estate & Traffic Committee Offices
Environment & Health Committee
Source: Loudden – A controversial harbour for petroleum

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
products in Stockholm, report, KTH

Private actors/
The Development Office The City + developers
(Standard) (Proposal) Community ?
PURE City own land
The City Building Office Bottom-up  Lack of public
High
cost
ECONOMIC
Economic feasibility & accountability
LOGIC (planners)
profitability
 Promoting
Coordinate btw public authorities citizen
engagement
Issue of building and design quality Green building
RESOURCE EFFICIENCY ENVIRONMENTAL

PROFILE
Promoting The Planning
Administration
Power of ≈ Reduce considerations

about building & design
The decision is based upon the
Departments asseumption that polital parties
quality
and ogagnisations
Political-economic
Self-feeding
Government Environmental
social
Stockholm
Royal Seaport
Cleaning
Sell land Private
High price developers
Compension
Evacuation affected
stakeholders
Ground work
equip Real estate Customers
Developing projects
facilities High price (high income)
Establish infrastructure
…
Source: ESPON TANGO - Territorial Approaches for New Governance, Case Study 2: Territorial Governance to achieve resource efficient urban development in
Stockholm: good practices without consistency? , Mitchell Reardon & Peter Schmitt, Nordregio

Symbiosis
“A mutually beneficial relationship
between different people or groups”
Source: Oxford Dictionaries
SymbioCity is one of the remarkable ambitious of Stockholm Royal Seaport (SRS).
Their approach mainly focuses on interacting and benefiting. For them, symbiosis
means finding synergies between urban systems. SRS develops their projects as
urban areas in a way that saves resources, drives sustainable growth, enhances
human capital and alleviates poverty.
However, in the architecture context, symbiotic relationships can be achieved in a

diversity of levels and forms. The interventions can be preceded under the frame-
work between architecture object and saving natural resources; between different
sections within one architectural object or interaction with social impact…
What is morphology of symbiotic architecture under the interpretations of territory?

In SRS project, that frame of SymboCity hazily emerges. Therefore, it provokes my
thoughts and starts to define a thesis’ research question.
Ropsten junction in the new proposal from Stockholm Stad is located in the border
between the residential area Kolkajen-Ropsten and the CHP energy harbor, an in-
dustrial zone. Rethinking the sense of this urban cross could be and finding a clear
identity are real challenges.
Slum in Dharavi, India

Designer: Hugon Kowalski , UGO architecture and design: let’s talk about garbage
1. Kolkajen - Ropsten
Residential district that is half
constructed on landfill includes
2000 housing units, 70.000
m2 of office, retail and other.
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Platform for loading and stor-
ing input of Värtaverket CHP-
plant that provides clean and
safe electricity for the area
Source: Selected proposal from Stockholm Royal Seaport

Site visiting
[03.11-11.11.2016]
I believe intuition is the first and crucial

tool to help an architect approach the
site. It is strong enough to provoke his
or her initial thoughts and capture a sen-
sation of the place.
“ The biggest impression when I went

through Ropsten junction is the parking
underneath the fly-over leads to Lidingo
and the heaviness of massive infrastruc-
ture. The huge spare space between and
underneath the touch-down infrastruc-
tures that is next to the waterfront gave
me a curiousity because this situation was
presented in a different way with my per-
ception. For me , this space was more valu-
able than it performed when I was there”
_Oanh Nguyen
(Ropsten, Stockholm, November, 2016) _

Image: Paking at Ropsten Station, photo by Oanh Nguyen
Source: Photos by Oanh Nguyen & google.maps
Flows of movement
Ropsten Junction is full of

movement. The ovelaping and
interaction between flows of
public transport, car, bike, pe-
destrian create a complexity
of this area in both horizontal
and vertical orientation
Water
Eventhough being close

to coastline, there is
lacking of connnection
with water. The sensa-
tion about this element
is neglected, except the
meaning of transport.
In-between
Undefined space exists

between 2 mass touch-
down infrastructural
components (the metro
station and the flyover)

Technical Component
The district heat pump station appears

interestingly on the site by exposing the
techinical pipes. They twist, they over-
lay, they sprawl alongside a water deck,
a pedestrian road, they wrap around a
typical technical mental box...
They are alive in the way they work and
somehow join in the urban fabric with a
rough touch of industrial manner.

Legend:
Legend:
1 Ropsten stop
1 Ropsten stop
2 Parking
2 Parking
3 Heat bump station
3 Heat bump station
4 Light rail line
4 Light rail line
5 Gas station
5 Gas station
6 Taxi boat deck
6 Taxi boat deck
7 Storage for CHP harbor
7 Storage
Bus stop for CHP harbor
2 3
4
6
2
5
7
Existing ground plan

Existing pedestrian walk
Flows fragment the site into pieces that

reduce the land use efficiency
Image: Paking at Ropsten Station, photo by Oanh Nguyen
bike
Tram
Welcoming services Metro Taxi

boat
Bus
Car
Movements

03. ZOOM IN

Heat pump
in
m As a part of the District heating and
zoo
cooling system in Stockholm, the Rop-
sten heat pump plant produces heat us-
ing natural cycles. Solar energy stored
in the water at Lilla Värtan is con-
verted using electricity into environm
The North Quay

1. Cold seawater used to 2. Energy from the district 3. Nighttime and times when 4. The low temperature in
cool the closed water loop cooling system is recovered the need for cooling is limited, the district cooling system is
of the District Cooling sys- and recycled in the district cold water is stored in the ac- transferred to the building’s
tem. The seawater is then heating system cumulator closed loop distribution sys-
returned to the lake tem via a heat exchanger.
District heating and

cooling in Stockholm
Source: Fortum Heat pump Ropsten station 1 Heat pump Ropsten station 2
CHP energy harbor
in
m CHP energy harbor (Energihamnen), lo-
zoo
cated at Norra Kajen. This where all the
fuel arrives that is used in Värtaverket and
several of Fortum Värme’s other facilities
in the Stockholm region. Fuel (biofuels
like grot, wood chips...and coal is possible
reservefuel) transported to Energihamnen
by boat or rail in order to minimise the
environmental effect of transport, thus
benefiting both the local and the global
environment.
From here, liquid fuel is transported to
other facilities with quays by means of a
specially developed double-hulled barge.
The North Quay

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CHP energy harbor

Plant location, logistic, fuel supply
D = 25-40m
Source: Fortum Existing storage tank

Fly-over
in
m Clearance of the existing flyover is 4.5m
zoo
The North Quay

4.5
7.5
Clearance of the existing flyover is 4.5m
Structural component of normal fly-over

in
m By 1925 a steel truss bridge, 9.1 metres
zoo
wide with a 6.7-metre roadway, replaced
the second pontoon bridge. It had 2 rail-
way tracks in the same carriageway as the
road.To avoid foundation work at the max-
imum depth a 140-metre-long truss arch
was used, and to allow a horizontal clear-
ance of 5.3 metres for boats the bridge
was provided with a simple 20-metre-long
bascule leaf.
After the new bridge was built, cars were
no longer allowed to cross. It has one
tramway and the other half of the bridge
is used for bicycles and pedestrians.
The North Quay

Current sailing free heights.
Illustration: Atkins
Source: www.lidingosidan.se
Source: Wikipedia
THEORITICAL
APPROACH
flexibility
Complexity
Recreation Generating
Well-being
S ocia l inf ra s tructu re
Waterfront
Go with the flows
Interaction
meeting point
Existing structural conditions
01. RESEARCH QUESTION How can architecture break through the a splitting
impact of an urban cross and function itself as a
social infrastructure ?
Abstract:
From the ambitious of Stockholm Royal Seaport, the concept of SymbioCity is represented in a different aspect. The sym-
biotic relationship in architecture context is observed by the lens of territory. That leads to infrastructure as a study object,
because of their splitting impact and undefined in-between spaces...Ropsten junction is an experiment of ultilizing the gaps
in a better way by creating more appropriate gaps. Redefine the travel nodes at the site allows adjusting the flows of move-
ment. From that, the architecture interventions are shaped. That is a consequence of why redefine the flows is a crucial step.
With the intervention that provides an symbiotic relationship, infrastructure have a potential to join in the urban fabric as a
social infrastructure, generate the public connection, besides being a basic installation for functioning of a community.
Infrastructure
1. An underlying base or founda-
tion especially for an organization
or system.
2. The basic facilities, services, and
installations needed for the func-
tioning of a community or society,
such as transportation and commu-
nications systems, water and power
lines, and public institutions includ-
ing schools, post offices, and pris-
ons.”
Source: www.thefreedictionary.com
“In many cases, the urban fabric is
wrapped around or fragmented by these
infrastructural projects, causing scale
contrasts and struggle to integrate with-
in, generating processes of misappropri-
ation or misuse”
_Kris,SCHEERLINCK; Touch-down infra-

structure, Streetscape territory research
project, August 11, 2015_
The impact of a normal infrastructure is

deviding a site into fragments.
To achieve overlaping platform in differ-

ent levels, fly-over leaves many of un-
defined spaces in transitioning heights.
Social Infrastructure
“Social infrastructure consists of the so-
cial connections and the organizations
and services that build them in a com-
munity. Strong social infrastructures cre-
ate strong communities with resilience
and the foundations for growth in both
economic capital and social justice
_Eric Klinenberg, Sociology professor,

New York University_
Source: www.npr.org
“As architects it is critial to understan-

dour role in shaping territories on mul-
tiple scales and defining where the com-
posite systems and new spatial qualities”
_Katrina. STOLL, Scott.LLOYD; Infra-

structure as architecture:Designing
composite networks. jovis Verlag GmbH,
Berlin, 2010._
“Social infrastructure is the lifeblood of

a cities spirit. I strongly believe that in-
vesting and embedding social infrastruc-
ture such as schools, cultural institutions,
health and places of worship that breathe
life deep into the fabric of the city, not in
separated precincts, into our dense urban
environments and public space amenity,
will enable our globe to embrace urbanism
and drive the output of liveable cities for
tomorrow”.
_Woods.BAGOT;Research blog, “Social
infrastructure as a city’s lifeblood”, 12
February, 2012._
Social Infrastructure: New York
Authors/Editors: Andrew Benner
James Andrachuk
Publication 2015
Yale School of Architecture
Distributed by Actar D.
Designed by MGMT Design New York
Social Infrastructure: New York is one

of a series that documents the Ed-
ward P. Bass Distinguished Fellowship
at the Yale School of Architecture. This
book includes the studio led by Doug-
las Durst of the Durst Organization, a
leading New York firm known for spear-
heading sustainable high-rise develop-
ments, architects Bjarke Ingels and
Thomas Christoffersen of BIG, and Yale
faculty member Andrew Benner. The
studio explored potential synergies be-
tween public and private programs in
the design of inhabited bridges cross-
ing major waterways in New York City.
The featured projects here demon-
strate a diverse range of approaches
for combining residential, cultural, and
commercial activities on complex and
dense infrastructural sites in imagina-
tive and productive ways. The book in-
cludes interviews with the professors,
an essay by Bjarke Ingels, and the
studio projects. Edited by James And-
rachuk (’12), Nina Rappaport, and An-
drew Benner (’06) the book is designed
by MGMT. Design.

02. STOCKHOLM CONTEXT
Listing similar situations in the inner City of Stockholm showns how Stockholm
deals with that in present and what are PROs and CONs of the other study cases ?

High dense housing
Service
facilities
Recreation
Office
The most popular programs in the surrounding of urban cross as fly-over.

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01. 02. 03. 04.
ROPSTEN STOCKHOLM CENTRALE SLUSSEN GULLMARSPLAN

A city with an active leisure scene
A survey of residents showed that Stock-
holm’s young people are very satisfied
with the cultural and sports activities
available. The survey also showed, how-
ever, that further work would be useful
on Stockholmers’ overall experiences of
culture and sports. Three out of five in-
dicators’ annual targets were achieved
in 2014. Considering the above, the City
Executive Office assesses that the opera-
tional goal was achieved in part in 2014.
Stockholmers read, learn and reflect

From the studies, it is clear that the per-
centage of Stockholmers who regularly
read books is significantly
higher than among residents of Stock-
holm County and Sweden as a whole.
Surveys show that the
percentage of library users increased
during the year.
Facilities that encourage exercise

and movement
The City ensures that the facilities main-
tain a high level of quality. As the popu-
lation of Stockholm
grows, the offering increases.
_Stockholms Stad, “A city with an active

leisure scene”, City of Stockholm Annual
Report 2014, www.stockholmannualre-
port.se_

A closeknit city
_Stockholms Stad, “A city with an active

leisure scene”, City of Stockholm Annual
Report 2014, www.stockholmannualre-
port.se_

03. A MATTER OF THINGS
_Manuel.DE SOLÀ-MORALES; A matter of things. Nai Publishers,
Belgium, 2008 _
Manuel de Solà-Morales, Barcelona architect, who created new concepts and in-
troduced innovative practices for transforming urban design in Europe. Manuel’s
comprehension of the city can be summarized under 3 headings:
1. To create a Place (Things Invented)
2. Condensed form (Things Overlapping)
3. Heterogeneous Accumulation (Things in Conflict)
Sola-Morales compares his actions in the urban fabric to one who practices acu-
puncture or surgery, making precise moves. He then proceeds to ‘show’ how he has
resolved complex challenges with reference to projects that he has tackled.
Operaplein, Antwerp, Belgium (2004-2009)
Planning and urbanization project, infrastructure and buildings

39,500 m2: 37,984 m2 public space, 20,225 m2 tunnels and parking.
Urban transformation of Antwerp city centre in the vicinity of the Opera. The project proposed the decisive organization on
the surface and below ground of the existing infrastructure (roads, metro and pre-metro) and the new public spaces and
new buildings. The proposal covers the construction of a tunnel (2 +2) to bypass the central zone linked to a large under-
ground car park, the remodelling of the Antwerp Opera pre-metro and metro stations and the development of the public
spaces on the surface.
Source: www.architectureandurbanism.blogspot.be/2012/01/manuel-de-sola-morales-matter-of-things.html
www.manueldesola-morales.com/proys/Operaplein_eng.htm
04. GO WITH THE FLOW
Architecture, Infrastructure and the Everyday Experience of Mobility
_Gilles DELALEX_
This thesis queries the status of buidings, infrastructure and cities in a space in-
creasingly shaped by flows. How do flows address architecture and urban design?
How do they influence thier forms, meanings and processes? Can flows become
an objecct of design?

Urban pacemaker
“This third project is a teamwork made in collaboration with Kenta Kishi, Tan Kok-Meng and Maria Sopanen, and supervised
by Raoul Bunschoten, during the international workshop “Soundings for Architecture 2”, organised by the Alvar Aalto Acad-
emy and the schools of architectures of Finland.”
“A motorway crosses the city of Jyväskylä, separating the city centre from the lakeshore. The bypass motorway is perceived
as a barrier that limits the extension of the city towards the lake. Psychologically cut off, the potential of the lake and its
shore remains a nagging problem to be resolved. Hence, the city of Jyväskylä, just like Chambéry, suffers from a disconnec-
tion from its infrastructures.”
“We propose to transform the motorway into an urban pacemaker, which aspires to be a generic throbbing machine that
produces pulses and impulses stimulating chains of reactions in the city. The urban pacemaker is like a time machine playing
on various sequences of events, each one having its own time and frequency.”
Source: “Go with the flow- Architecture, Infrastructure andthe Everyday Experience of Mobility”, Gilles Delalex, University of Art and Design Helsinki
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01. IIT MC C O R MICK TR I B U N E
C AMP U S C EN T E R
Chicago, USA
Designed by OMA, Partner: Rem Koolhaas
“Rather than stacking activities in a multi-storey building, we opted to arrange each
programmatic element of the Campus Center in a dense single plane that would
foster an urban condition. To achieve this, in 1997 OMA carried out a study to map
the “desire lines” of student foot traffic across the campus. These intersecting di-
agonal paths are maintained inside the Campus Center itself, linking the multiplicity
of activities via a network of interior streets, plazas, and urban islands that form
neighborhoods: 24-hour, commercial, entertainment, academic, recreation, and
other urban elements in microcosm”
_OMA_
IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center
“Desire lines”
Stacking activities
Interaction

02. O SLO O P ER A H O U S E
Oslo, Norway
Designed by Snøhetta 2
“The dividing line between the ground ’here’ and the water ‘there’ is both a real and
a symbolic threshold. This threshold is realised as a large wall on the line of the
meeting between land and sea, Norway and the world, art and everyday life. This
is the threshold where the public meet the art.”
“The building connects city and fjord, urbanity and landscape. To the East, the ‘fac-
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reheasal rooms at the upper levels, workshops at street level. The future connec-
tion to a living and animated new part of town will give a greater sense of urbanity.”
_Rose ETHERINGTON, Dezeen Magazine, 9 April.2008_
Oslo Opera House
Rising from a fjord, Snøhetta’s Oslo Opera House has become a kind of public square
Public platform
“Seeing through”
Sense of Urbanity

03. LOU VR E LEN S
Lens, France
Designed by SANAA
“The 360 meter long, steel and glass structure is integrated within a 20 hectare
wasteland that was originally used as a coal mine before the 1960s. It is expected
to attract 500,000 visitors every year and envisioned to help revitalize the post-
industrial town.”
“SANAA, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa wanted to avoid creating a dominating
fortress, opting instead for a low, easily accessible structure that integrates into the
site without imposing on it by its presence”
_Karissa ROSENFIELD, Archdaily.com, 29 December.2012_

Musée du Louvre, Lens
Lightness
Material, color, size
Cluster

04. BU ILDIN G T ECH N O LO G Y

INTERVENTION

01. C O N C EP T
Understand problematic issues of the site and define a new sense for the place.
The idea is relocate the travel node, to shape pedestrian walk. Thus, The site have
more efficiency in land use and still maintain the good flows of circurlations.
The architecture interventions are added in the gaps between travel nodes that
increase the interaction between activities, create a bond in community.

1. Existing situation 2. Re-position and connect travel nodes
Legend:
Destination points
Main functions
Travel node
Road
Tram line
3. Architectural intervention 4. Creat destination points to generate the interaction Metro
Spatial diagram
Re-locate travel nodes.

Add interventions on pedestrian walks.
Legend
Travel hub
Multifunctional house
Public platform
Office
Functional scheme Fitness centre/

Swimming pool
Hotel
Healthcare clinical
Dramatic change on flows of movement

02. UR BAN ST R AT E G Y
According to the life style of Stockholmers, this concept can be a pilot project that
is spreadwide in the City of Stockholm. Undefined gaps left from the infrastructure
work have a potential to transform into “a place” and join in the urban fabric.
Moreover, the project also focus on the waterfont factor that is known as a funda-
mental means of transport in Stockholm. Reconnect to the water in term of recre-
ation, Ropsten case have a chance to bring the water factor get involve in people
daily life as an new breath. The waterfront becomes a platform to reunite the urban
fragments.
Urban strategy

03. MAT ER I ALIT Y
The material scheme aims to the highlight the lightness of architecture, in con-
trast of the heaviness of infrastructure context. The exaggeration of the opposite
relation gives an apparrent presence of urban scenery.

1. Heat pump plant 1 2. Silo at CHP energy harbor 3. Existing houses in the surrounding
4. Heat pump plant 2 5. Underneath the fly-over

A
Site plan

Urban facade

Section AA

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Projective map

Scenarios of sptial organizing
04. ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTION
The multifunctional house creates flexibility for the space, also the urban sense.
The main aim is create a meeting point, located underneath the touch-down infra-
structure can offer “a place” to the public and useful in a sense of pleasure.
This architecture development is a choice that has to deal with the existing struc-
ture somehow still maintain the mixture of the surrounding areas’ identities
(industrial zone and residential zone), also break through the splitting impact of
normal infrastructure via the waterfront platform.

B B
Ground floor

Construction layers

Section BB

L I T E R A T U R E
Paola.VIGANÒ; Territorialis(m), Studio

Report, Spring2014, Harvard University
Graduate School of Design.
Katrina.STOLL, Scott.LLOYD; Infrastruc-

ture as architecture:Designing compos-
ite networks. jovis Verlag GmbH, Berlin,
2010.
Manuel.DE SOLÀ-MORALES; A matter of

things. Nai Publishers, Belgium, 2008.
Gilles.DELALEX; Go with the flow - Ar-

chitecture, Infrastructure and the Every-
day Experience of Mobility, Publication
Series, University of Art and Design Hel-
sinki. Finland, 2006.

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ROPSTEN

Oanh Nguyen Thi Kieu

Author: Oanh Nguyen Thi Kieu (r0474907)

The academic year 2016

Student work of Design Studio

Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen 5

I would like to send sincere thanks to Prof.

And I also sincerely appreciate the chance

I’m grateful for supports and understand-

Last but not least, thanks to myself for

Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen 7

_ Territorialis(m), Paola Viganò_

“An understanding of the relations among multuple rationalities, ecological and

_ Territorialis(m), Paola Viganò_

Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen 9

10 Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen

Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen 11

STOCKHOLM CITY EXTENSIONS 2007 Source: Stad of Stockholm

3 - Loudden 3 - Frihamnen 2 - Värtahamnen 1 - Hjorthagen

Source: Stockholm Royal Seaport - Norra Djurgårdsstaden – Vision 2030

24 ministries Swedish parliament

21 Counties 21 County Councils

A u t h o r i t i e s Storstockholm Lokaltrafik AB Co.

Public transport City network

290 Municipalities Municipal Councils Development Office

Stockholm harbour Co. Executive board (Trafikkontoret)

Environment & Health Committee

Source: Loudden – A controversial harbour for petroleum

16 Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen

RESOURCE EFFICIENCY ENVIRONMENTAL

Power of ≈ Reduce considerations

Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen 17

SymbioCity is one of the remarkable ambitious of Stockholm Royal Seaport (SRS).

However, in the architecture context, symbiotic relationships can be achieved in a

What is morphology of symbiotic architecture under the interpretations of territory?

Slum in Dharavi, India

2. CHP energy habor

Source: Selected proposal from Stockholm Royal Seaport

I believe intuition is the first and crucial

“ The biggest impression when I went

20 Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen

Ropsten Junction is full of

Eventhough being close

Undefined space exists

24 Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen

The district heat pump station appears

Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen 25

28 Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen

Flows fragment the site into pieces that

Welcoming services Metro Taxi

Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen 31

32 Ropsten Junction - Social infrastructure within the SymbioCity . Oanh Nguyen

The North Quay

District heating and

The North Quay

CHP energy harbor

Source: Fortum Existing storage tank

The North Quay

Structural component of normal fly-over

The North Quay

_Kris,SCHEERLINCK; Touch-down infra-

The impact of a normal infrastructure is

To achieve overlaping platform in differ-