Skivarp is a passing through village about a thousand inhabitants, located in the south of Sweden. The road that cross it has been losing the coherence with the village compared to its historical links. Thousands of cars every day, no attraction either compensation from that, so the mayor and the population decided to get back to a more logical and adapted design. The work had been done with two other persons (one from Sweden and another from Slovenia) ending about two months, focused on a sensitive approach. Working through the history, people observations and many other statements listing the physical and abstract landscape from one end to the other. A video 'deconstruction' tool has been created and used to make the project as close to the reality as possible.
Read this doc on Scribd: Autoprésentation SKIVARP Project 4 design SLU Alnarp, Sweden, winter 2007 The PROJECT 4 DESIGN course train the ability to handle complex problems of design in an urban or rural context and to find a well-based and personal expression for our solution. Thus the course content ranges from design theory via creative idea to proposals for practical realisation. Authors • Helena Olsson, SLU Alnarp Sweden, 25 • Eva Brovinsky, University of Ljubljana Slovenia, 21 • Jean-Baptiste Lacombe, Ensap Bordeaux France, 26 There is is through Skivarpin the south of skåne. It has grownpart around one From beingsmall village has throughout history village which has, to pride The road lot a part of traffic passing through the been a big up of together Skivarp a a of heavy the village and giving something positive its with the speed, roads in this area, route number an anonymous part of and the villagers, become ahas today turned into 101 fromthe roadto Ystad. and the main the road big problem for Skivarp. Today Malmö system of identity. route 101. have become two separated parts of what once was one unit… the village “We want to connect the village and the road back together again.” Methodology • • • • • not to use maps use first hand information listen to the village and experience it driving through it many times feel its pulse from the road • make a movie of the village from the Step 1 road… Press play layers The chosen layers arethe village structure fromstructures. First tool Deconstructing the 4 minutes movie. the road: to perceive only a few of perceived Press space space Each layer is important for thefromgoandroad was village structure from the road. Each a movie madekey to the forththe identified as a layer. element seen back forward of through the village. perception Next slide How to define the layers? Step 2 “edges” are define by the balance between: open space enclosed space semi open space “spots” are define as: Important part of the culture Remarquable structure Strong element “lines” are define as: Perpendicular structure Walls, hedges, tree raws Roads, etc… Chapter compostion This composition of layers combined with the village structure, its history and landscape surroundings became a wide knowledge database. The composition is a strong component in the method and was the tool which lead closer to the essence of the village pulse… Line chapter Hedge chapter Mill center Road to Abbikas House passage Old road entrance pauses In order to make a logical elements from each were more distinct than others. Overlapping the layers, a few composition these chapters are interacting. For example, the pause becomes more passive chapter, centre is an active At this point different chapters became clear (mill while thecenter, old road, etc...). chapter. Line chapter Hedge chapter Mill center Road to Abbikas House passage Old road entrance Introducing connections between the road and the of Increasing the the whole village structure, the process village emphazing each surrounding. in its chapter became richer. Design These are a few of the chapters were the method were taken to the next designlevel. A couple of example, where the method was experimented with, will now follow… Entrance from Malmö: introduce the village by tree lines. Entrance from Ystad: replanting the grave hill. Entrance from Ystad: replanting the grave hill.
