The Great Opportunity

The train station of the future in Flädie means that Bjärred will be part of a stronger network of sustainable public transport. The project creates a new logic for soft mobility, which provides a transition from car-based transport to a safer, faster and greener system. This will not only benefit new development in Bjärred, but for the entire city, car-dominated spaces will be redistributed and transformed from monofunctional car-based infrastructure to social human-based infrastructure.

From suburbanism to collective rural urbanism

The project articulates around 3 collective ideals:
Continuous nature - increased physical connection with nature, help to preserve and maintain nature, create conditions for observing, experiencing and learning.
Social infrastructure - soft mobility, culture, education, play and sports.
Productivity - Maker Spaces, permaculture, kitchen gardens, energy forest.

The collective ideals are supported by a framework of green and blue landscapes, urban areas and collective places that stimulate activity, participation and encounters between people, encourage pride and attractiveness.

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A new innovative model for housing

The new urban areas are designed to respond to climate change, through a green and blue strategy that not only acts as an adaptable system, giving more space for water, but it recreates lost and new habitable natures. The project also carries out a participatory process that combines citizens' needs and wishes with the project's timeline. The proposed city typologies have been studied and designed to suit local contexts and allow maximum flexibility to adapt to local conditions and the future market.

Eco (Bjärred) system

The project strives to create an intense green / blue focused environment as a way to increase the district's attraction and position it to compete better with similar contexts. This approach has two main parts: islands of housing located along existing infrastructure, and in turn a continuously expansive landscape. Each island contains different ways of life, a series of suburban typologies and a new ecosystem consisting of both urban and natural systems.

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