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Slussholmen - Södertälje

Sweden's largest lock will be renovated in 2022-2025 and with that the adjacent Slussholmen will be available for Södertälje municipality to develop. It will be an opportunity to create a long-awaited city park in the center of Södertälje. SYSTRA was commissioned to produce a design program for the park. The vision is for Slussholmen to be a city park for everyone, a green addition to the inner city, a place where Södertälje's location - between Mälaren and the Baltic Sea, along the water and between the slopes - becomes clear and visible. It must also be a place that respects the cultural environment and honors both the 20th century and the 21st century's "roaring twenties", which are times of great contrasts and challenges. Both of these times are also based on new relationships between cultures in society that arouse a sense of adventure and wonder. We see Slussholmen as a vessel for this, an opportunity to discover the abstract such as friendship, inspiration and dreams but also the opportunity to discover the islet's different parts, its atmospheres and activities. We hope that Slussholmen can become a 20th century cruiser in the present. The design of the park was done in close collaboration with the municipality's landscape and planning architects and with the participation of Södertälje's citizens. In addition to increased biological diversity, climate adaptation and connection to the city's traffic network, the design of the park has three focus areas;

Cultural environment as within the entire lock area there are several valuable objects saved, including buildings that can give an insight into what it was like when the lock was built in the 1920s. The entire area is also classified as an important cultural environment. We want to honor this precious environment by continuing with design principles inspired by Swedish Grace and also using materials that were used during that time, for example granite, wood and thin steel.

Water contact is a fact on Slussholmen, which is surrounded by water on all sides, we want to increase direct contact with the water and also bring as much as possible into the park. The relocation of Slussgatan enables a larger grass area that directly borders Maren. The park slopes down, with different slopes, towards the water, which gives different experiences depending on where in the park you are. There will be various piers that provide the opportunity to get out on the water and also water playgrounds and drinking water fountains with direct access to clean water.

Programs with play at the forefront aim for Slussholmen to go from being only a functional area to a park for Södertälje's citizens. This means that there will be room for different activities that suit different groups in society. During our citizen dialogue, the need and wishes to have a real playground in the center of Södertälje were raised, we wanted to work on this further and the park should therefore offer a large playground and other playful ways to experience the rest of the park.

Project made in collaboration with SYSTRA

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Slussholmen playground - Södertälje

Flow like water

Inside the cane thicket

The water cycle

Project made in collaboration with SYSTRA

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Marenplan - Södertälje

Marenplan is located in central Södertälje where the water meets the city. The place is like a balcony or gateway to nature and the slussen area. A new hotel is to be built, and with this the entire square and even the quay are rebuilt. Systra was tasked with adjusting previous design proposals and doing detailed planning for the entire square, the quay and the close Ekdalsgatan. On the north side of the area, in front of the hotel, a long rainbed with trees is proposed to separate the furniture zone and the quay from the pedestrian area and outdoor seating of the new hotel restaurants. The western part is proposed to have a rain bed and a low fountain. Here the connection to the water is strengthened and the fountain gives life to the place. The fountain can be turned off and on the flat surface a stage can be placed in front of the existing grand staircase that links Marenplan with Storgatan. Next to the stairs, new plantings and a ramp are proposed to improve accessibility up to Storgatan. Tullgränd is the name of the small alley west of the hotel where another staircase with underfloor heating connects the square with the streets above. The entire quay has been extended and is being rebuilt, it is at a lower level than the square and is made with brushed concrete and wooden surfaces. The square, the quay and the stairs will become an important part of the city and will attract people to come here for stay, play, activities and meetings. This square is for everyone.

Project made in collaboration with SYSTRA

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Living walls design and construction at Karolinska biomedicum

Project made in collaboration withDaniel Bell Landskap and Greenworks

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Le vie d’acqua, EXPO Milan 2025

La Via d'Acqua is an environmental landscape redevelopment project that is among the major projects of the 2015 Universal Exposition, configuring itself as a connection of the exhibition site with the territory that hosts it and an essential intervention for the functioning of the site itself: a hydraulic system and connection between the water system of the Villoresi Canal to the north and the water system of the Milan “Navigli” to the south.

A project of great landscape-environmental as well as hydraulic value, which develops from a derivation of the Villoresi canal along the Guisa, Lura and Olona valley systems up to the Expo site; from here, crossing the large parks of the western belt and also redeveloping a territorial system south of Milan, it enters the historic “Naviglio Grande”, in connection with the Darsena and the center of Milan. The route crosses the vast system of existing parks and protected areas, where they can find an ideal location and an opportunity for enhancement and dissemination also further achievements and testimonies relating to the theme of the Universal Exposition "Feeding the planet, energy for life".

The need to bring water to the exhibition site is combined with that of building a permanent irrigation infrastructure to serve the agricultural areas to the west and especially to the south of Milan; furthermore, the construction of the new canal becomes an opportunity to define new scenarios for the landscape and use of this territory, as well as for the promotion and enhancement of existing resources.

Via d’Acqua Sud - from the exhibition site to the Naviglio Grande - approximately 11.35 km of which 3.52 km are ducted and the remaining 7.83 km are open air. The contexts crossed vary landscapes from the dense urbanised fabrics area to the vast open spaces and agricultural horizons of the parks west of Milan (Trenno Park, Boscoincittà, Parco delle Cave). The canal in the long exposed sections becomes an opportunity to redraw urban spaces that are now little characterised or to enrich the vast urban parks it crosses, in others it helps to redefine and redevelop the boundary between urbanised (Baggio) and open spaces (Parco delle Cave) or to improve the environmental insertion of the Olona diverter. The service runway that runs alongside it does not coincide, if not for short stretches, with the main connecting route between Canale Villoresi, Expo Site and Naviglio Grande, but is nevertheless integrated with the existing and planned user networks.

Along the canal there are parks and areas with different characters: the Fontanile (a small lake), the Sorgente (a water square), the Pertini Park (with shady areas and a large salix structure), the Deviatore Park (with a thematic garden and water channels) and finally the area of San Cristoforo where the canal of the Via d'Acqua enters the Naviglio Grande and the cycle-pedestrian ridge connects with the itinerary along the Naviglio and the Via di Mezzo of the Parco delle Risaie.

Project made in collaboration with SAP and Gioia Gibelli

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Park Lesina, Presezzo | Italy

Project made in collaboration with SAP

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Leolandia amusement park, EIA, Capriate | Italy

This project analyses the landscape impact of the urban variation of Leolandia amusement park. The intervention in analysis consists of an overall redevelopment destined to the creation of a "village" (with hotel, conference center, shopping mall) and an amusement park with different types of attractions.

The analysis defined the landscape impact relevant but tolerable. This conclusion implies the need of appropriate mitigation and compensation works. It is in fact planned to build a tower that will become a real landmark, the critical aspects of the landscape aspects are mainly linked to this, both on a local and on a super-local scale.

Project made in collaboration with SAP

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Renovation of the town main square, Ciserano | Italy

The project intends to respond to the need to bring the main square of the town back to purely pedestrian use, through a redevelopment operation of the furnishings and paving, previously mainly in asphalt and porphyry.

The project starts from the idea of a unified redevelopment of the town center. For this reason the project starts from considering necessary the creation of a regular grid, conceived starting from the size of the parvis of the parish church. The churchyard lends itself well to providing an extensible meter to adjoining spaces: in fact, it has a regular shape, attributable to a square, on which, moreover, the most valuable façade of the whole area looks out. Starting from the churchyard, therefore, the mesh is extending along regular paths, describing, in principle, squares of 12 by 12 meters. In reality, this grid then ends up adapting to different spaces, emphasizing privileged directions and axes.

The grid is physically defined by strips of white granite 1 meter wide; in some parts there are cast iron channels for collecting rainwater. The fields between the bands, on the other hand, are paved with red porphyry granite cubes. Within the grid, a further geometric figure takes on particular importance: it is an ellipse, located right in the center of Piazza Papa Giovanni XXIII. The ellipse design, made of cobblestone, comes from the ideal extension of the raised "island" previously existing and characterized by the presence of a sort of lime trees groove. The design of the ellipse is intended to emphasize the importance of this element: some of the existing lime trees (the most external ones) are left in place while the innermost ones are cutted (the grove was too dense for a healthy development of all the specimens ).

In this ellipse, a complex consisting of two fountains is designed in place of the existing monument that has been removed. One of them is located in the far east of the ellipse and is characterized by an above-ground granite basin. In the center, the basin bears the base that holds a bronze monument; the monument, in turn, is bathed in jets which, starting from the perimeter, are directed towards the center. The other fountain, located in the ellipse but on the opposite side, instead consists of a granite circle placed at the level of the pavement; jets of water emerge from this disk which, in fact, are the real elements that make up the fountain. The choice of this solution was dictated by the desire to create a reference to the idea of the fountains, present in the surrounding countryside, and a reference to their gushing out of the ground.

The two fountains are connected by a thin cobblestone strip: this material symbolically wants to remember a stream of water, as if born from the "fountain" the water itself reached the main fountain feeding it.

Project made in collaboration with SAP

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Analysis and mitigation of a new road, Casalpusterlengo | Italy

Project made in collaboration with SAP and Gioia Gibelli

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Park and library | Stezzano

Concept for a new public library with park

Project made in collaboration with SAP

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Youth center park | Bonate Sopra

The outdoor space of this youth center are designed to host several functions related to sports and conviviality.

There are: - a large paved area for community party or dinners (that can be covered with a marquee) - a football field - a volleyball / basketball field - a playground with slings and slope - a vast lawn for free activities

Project made in collaboration with SAP

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Dordo park | Bonate Sopra

The project concerns the construction of a park along the Dordo stream. The park area is located along the left bank of the stream in the municipality of Bonate Sopra (BG).

The proposed project involves the construction of a large linear park with a strong naturalistic value, typical of the surrounded area.

The project uses three simple elements typical of the local landscape: tree-lined rows, small woodlands and white roads. These elements are composed together creating the design of the park itself.

The project intervention in addition to re-naturalise the suburban area along the torrent draws the urban margin by mitigating and resolving the current rupture between the countryside and urbanised areas.

The natural connotation of the entire park allows to minimise maintenance and the relative management costs, this is due to the presence of spontaneous meadows, arboreal rows and wooded areas that require minimal care.

Project made in collaboration with SAP

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“Arco Verde” Ecological network

Arco Verde is a project for ecological and regional re-stitching, with an overall “linear” development in the upper Bergamo plain of over 35 km.

A feasibility study (2015) which involved a total of 44 municipalities, 6 Local parks, 4 Mountain Communities, 1 Nature Reserve and 4 Regional Parks, identified 17 areas, for which they have already been elaborated preliminary projects of intervention.

The history of Arco Verde begins in 2012, the year in which the project was conceived and was presented at the Cariplo Foundation as part of the call for tenders "Realizing ecological connection". The Arco Verde project carried out a Feasibility Study aimed at creating an ecological continuity band, capable of linking the courses of the Adda, Brembo, Serio and Oglio rivers along an overall “linear ”Of the corridor of over 35 km. The purpose of this "green infrastructure" is to contribute decisively to complete the network of the ecological network of the province of Bergamo, defining an important corridor that connects, in an east-west direction, the four main rivers present in the territory, already identified as Primary Ecological Corridors in the Lombardy Regional Ecological Network document.

https://www.arcoverdebergamo.it/

Project made in collaboration with SAP and other professionals

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Furnace park | Madone

The “Parco della Fornace” is part of a broader plan that pursues the idea of creating a unitary intervention, which manages to combine the presence of the public park with that of the residence: intervention whose fulcrum is made up from the planned redevelopment of the ancient furnace.

The new park dialogues with the furnace complex, a fundamental historical pre-existence for the territorial context and an essential element of local, personal and community "micro-stories" of the inhabitants.

The project starts from two fundamental assumptions:

the attention paid to the creation or maintenance of optical cones towards the furnace from the streets and through the new residential compartments;

the native deciduous species taken from the vegetation of the wooded strip that borders the nearby Dordo stream, also taking into account the maintenance of some existing poplar specimens.

The park project is based on some basic layouts and compositional elements:

a dorsal path with a north-south position that identifies the distinction between public and residential areas: on it runs a cycle path accompanied by a row of cypress poplars, to emphatize the structural extent;

a route with an east-west position that, crossing the new residential settlement, leads the nearby river park into the urban park, leading to the tree species of the river itself. The layout takes up the design of the ancient country road that crosses the places, preserving and enhancing it. This path is accompanied by flowering apple trees.

Between this route and the furnace area, a large surface accommodates two spaces, one with urban gardens and the other with a play area. All illuminated with lampposts of different colors poles.

In the overall design of the park there are also rows of Morus platanifolia placed in a fan shape in a large triangular lawn; this lawn will be maintained in alternate mowing in order to allow the park's biodiversity to increase.

Project made in collaboration with SAP

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Villa by the water | Djursholm

This private garden by the water have a swimming pool, a viewpoint, a pier and a living wall in the pool house. The amazing designed meadow by the water really give you the feeling of seasons changing.

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