STAD I SKOG . SKOG I STAD
KYMLINGE, SUNDBYBERG, SWEDEN - AUTUMN 2016
KYMLINGE, SUNDBYBERG, SWEDEN - AUTUMN 2016
In Sweden we love nature. We want to live close, have access and stay in it. Despite this, more and more people are moving to big cities for various reasons and this movement contributes to a worrying housing shortage, with Stockholm as the clearest example. We need more housing. We need to expand and create new neighborhoods. But above all we need to think about how we do this. Can one in any way take into account both the value of nature and the need for housing and create something in between a city and a nature area? An environment in which the calm forest in Kymlinge, which is used extensively by exercisers, is preserved, while the conditions for using it equally frequently by residents are created without excluding the previous. A unique urban environment where nature and buildings are treated equally but as two separate elements that constantly meet under different conditions.
Due to smaller footprints on the buildings, compared to nearby residential areas, the district gives the impression that it consists of small buildings from above. In fact, they are taller buildings that integrate with the trees in the forest and in many cases extend over the tree tops while leaving space for nature and the existing activities on the ground. As a method of obtaining a fade of buildings from the city center and out from it, treat the buildings equally with the forest and last but not least give them shape variations, a grid has been created and used as a principle throughout the new area of Kymlinge.
