Creating a well-connected social and ecological infrastructure in Järva, Sweden
How do we face problems that occur in urban areas and how do we work with the potentials of the areas already existing? The suburbs around the Järva area outside of Stockholm have a head start when it comes to being close to nature. The four suburbs of Kista, Husby, Rinkeby and Tensta are located around the large Järva Wedge. It is a huge natural area that stretches from far out in the rural areas, into Stockholm, creating an ecological passway into and through the suburbs and the city.
Even though nature is close to these areas it’s not always easily accessed. As three architecture students, Carolina Tideman, Mandong Zhu and Nadia Vidor from the university of KTH, Stockholm we asked the following questions. How to blur these borders, bring in more nature into the urban area and how we with ecological infrastructure can help minimize problems of rising urban temperatures as well as create social activation and raise feelings of safety. In this masters project we’re focusing on one of these suburbs, Rinkeby, to find solutions by strategic planning and visualization. Together with Eveliina Hafvenstein Säteri, an urban planner at Stockholms Stad, we’ve looked at the great aspects of the area, as well as the social and ecological issues currently faced by the region, to discuss what could be done to help counter these problems and find solutions. Here you’ll hear parts of our discussions as well as parts of our process.
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