As a concern for how new city developments invest in commercial public space of economic activity rather than cultural activity and inclusion, part of a global trend and also the case of Umeå’s ambition to reach the population growth of 200 000 inhabitants by the year of 2050. The question to be asked in this regard is what kind of effect does this produce on the way we as local inhabitants can take control and be part of the creation of our own living environment? Or are we just victims of a life consumed by slow decay due to the capital dominance? In relation to this main concern, the project has been developing through the aspect of acknowledging inferior space and abandoned objects as a method and typology to analyze alternative ways to perceive the city off based the logic of clear function and use, but in terms of human interaction and subjective perception of space. The point of departure and important key element for this development derived from the early stages of research and influential work by Robert Smithson’s Monuments of Passaic New Jersey, (1967) with a main quote on the description of Smithson’s work and the term of monuments, here defined by Ann Reynolds as: “how something plot out and charge a space with meaning” Learning from memory traces of an abandoned set of futures evoked the idea and strive towards creating space not tied to a specific use or function, but as a collaboration and juxtaposition between form and the viewer’s experience. In add to an understanding of a presence which ties together the past and the present as an indirect translation of the developed concept for contemporary Ruins, as the perception of void. The ruins association to object defined through the observer became a guideline towards the aim of designing nonhierarchical space, free of us and interpreted by the visitor within the city scape. Based on this foundation this thesis aims to examine the possibilities of architectural structures which can encourage and create conditions for new cultural and social meetings. The abstract concept of space and deliberate openness to interpretation can allow the visitor to take co-authorship of their own living environment based on their personal understanding and imagination of that space. The action is by deliberate disjunction between form and viewer’s experience forced by a superimposition plan as a design strategy for redeveloping the current Döbelns Park into a new culture park in the city context of Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden. Fragments of the park will in add create a system of integrated monumental sculpture scapes, as a network of in-between small scale interventions adapting to specific site conditions together with implemented greenery. To secure areas within the city scape with access to greenery and social interactive meeting points, part of the Urban strategy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-138799 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Ahlqvist, Stina |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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