HYLLIE STATION BUILDINGS

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We create a new and green gathering point in Hyllie that with a station building, housing and a station square strenghtens a livable, diverse and vibrant city life. The station area and the masterplan are based on the existing qualities, where the city and the surrounding landscape are incorporated in one structural concept, integrating the train tracks as an active component.

Project information
Partner-in-charge: Ole Schrøder
Employees: Sofie Mandrup Andreassen, Elaina Keppler og Lars Vinther
Client: Malmö Municipality
Program: Masterplan and development of station area
Place: Hyllie, Malmö, Sweeden
Type: Competition
Areal: 12.000 m2 (site) + 54.000 m2 (the three buildings included in the masterplan)
Team: THIRD NATURE + Tham & Videgård Arkitekter + FEW Agency + Ikano Bostad
Period: 2017. Completed.

VISION
Hyllie is the story about how a city in short time was established on a bare field and how the development of it happened on the city’s own terms. Today, Hyllie is experienced as a fragmented city because of the existing and mono-functional enclaves, the monotonous building typology and the surrounding landscape all functioning as isolated elements. Hyllie is missing a holistic concept that reinforces the relations between the fragmented elements, with the ambition to create an adventurous, green and livable everyday life. We wish to suppress the fragmented city through a holistic concept, that incorporates the city’s many structures and the surrounding landscape in one structure,integrating the train tracks as an active component.

The concept aims to develop a neighbourhood, that with a social and climatic balance in mind is adaptable to its context. The city nature will be integrated with the built, to ensure a green Hyllie and furthermore to integrate the nature’s processes to strengthen ecosystems, recreational potentials and a climatic performance in the future neighbourhood. We believe this approach, contributes to a socially strong neighbourhood, that releases space for the social meeting between humans in public spaces and the good everyday life for the individual.

MASTERPLAN – THE DISPLACED GRID STRUCTURE
The purpose of the masterplan is to create a neighbourhood, that is developed from east but organised from west. Thereby Hyllie’s existing grid structure is united with the surrounding landscape. The neighbourhood’s grid structure is displaced because of the train tracks direction, which allows space for a recreational path. Simulations of the landscape’s natural conditions such as weather and wind conditions, have determined the structure of the masterplan, with the intention of creating the best and quality enriching spaces for the users. Furthermore, the simulations are used in the three-dimensional development of the neighborhood.

It means displacements and variations in height and volume is defined by microclimate, wind optimization and the amount of light in the individual homes and other functions. At west, the masterplan adapts to the landscape as the building is oriented and opens towards the green landscape, and is reduced in scale and density. At east, by the train tracks and the surrounding streets, the masterplan appears as a space-creating element, which amongst other reduces noise in the inner courtyard and streets.

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THE RECREATIONAL PATH
We wish to create a simple orientation, availability and activity in the neighbourhood. This is ensured by creating natural connections, that create spaces for intuitive movement. Everyday flow and connections within the masterplan is optimised by organising an easy connection through the area with room for public and green urban spaces that strengthens city life, communities and good neighbourliness.

We have created the train tracks and the new walking bridge as a natural liaison to a close-connected city life. It is strengthened by the visible and recreational program of the terrain that stretches along the train tracks.

This new path serves to function as an infrastructural connection, a noise barrier, create adventurous and sensuous spaces and display Hyllie’s identity when arriving with train. The recreational path is created by merging nature into urban spaces, based on human movement, activity and curiosity in every form. The nature will create room for various experiences, where the residents and school kids for example can botanise and learn about the wild, Swedish flora and fauna. The variation of level in the terrain will create small hills for running, play, tumbling or tobogganing. The path becomes a holistic element, that creates a united, active, identity-building and vivid path for everybody’s use in Hyllie.

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THE STATION SQUARE AS THE NEW GATHERING SPACE
The ambition for Hyllie’s new station square is to create the city’s new, central gathering space, that adds new values to the neighbourhood and meanwhile solve infrastructural challenges. Many directions cross at the station square, and this pattern of movement underlies the configuration of the three buildings and the square.

We have developed the area with the ambition to include various functions, that establish and ensure life around the clock. The station house and the two other buildings, will include public functions at ground-floor. The station house will accommodate business and the two other houses will accommodate residentials. The inspiration behind the station house is based on the character of an old station house, that includes functions connected to traveler’s needs.

The public functions in the proposal are among other a Food Court, book café, pentaquie bar, winter garden, auditorium for big events and nursery and greenhouses on the roof. All together the area will support and facilitate a multifarious, vivid and vibrant city life.

The vulnerable road users are priority in the proposal. The level free access offers complete availability and close relation between the inside and outside. The proposal favours bicyclists with an easy infrastructure between an underground bicycle parking space with direct access to the platforms, the station house and the rest of the neighborhood.

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VIVID, TEACHING AND GREEN NEIGHBORHOOD
In our proposal, the nature makes up the frame and stage floor to the everyday city life. The meeting between the nature’s casual effect, the various terrain and the building’s geometry create high sensuous urban spaces, where nature’s processes are integrated. This meeting is reinforced as a pedagogical sensibility, that invites to reflect upon the good life and our acts in the world. The sensuous life must always be one of Hyllie’s qualities, both at the public station square and throughout the small urban spaces in the masterplan.

The nature’s processes, for example rain waters flow, evaporation of plants and trees variability, are displayed in the urban spaces and thereby the citizens are introduced to the hidden relations in nature that we are normally separated from in our cities. Working with an inviting type of urban space where the users live in close relation to the nature, strengthens the individual and the community’s initiative and life-value.

Well on it’s way towards a third nature. The winning proposal is like a meteor strike in the functionally divided city

Boris Brorman Jensen in The Architect

It is captivatingly futuristic and, alongside the other comparatively simple schemes, speculates just how advanced we could be if we hadn’t neglected our urban waterways for so long.

Financial Times on HOW

A jury member described it as ‘academic hippie platitudes – plenty of feel-good, but completely unnecessarily high readability index’.
The most original is in the solutions presented. Not least what a jury member call ‘the Big Rainwater Penis’.

Creative Business Cup jury

The winning project of the Europan competition presents a visionary proposal for how we draw nature back into the city and utilize the qualities that it can give to the cityscape.

City Architect of Copenhagen, Tina Saaby

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