Farsta Center is the largest shopping mall in Stockholm with over 150 stores and over 40,000 m2. It was developed in the 1960’s as the centre of Farsta – a Stockholm suburb developed from modernist ideals of life in the green and separation of functions. Today Farsta Centre is the first of 9 strategic growth centers in Stockholm – one of Europe’s fastest growing city regions. Can we transform Farsta Centrum from a 1960’s mall into a vibrant, active, diverse and dense city centre for the inhabitant of Stockholm?
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Stockholm is one of Europe’s fastest growing city regions. Over the next 30 years it is expected to grow by 140.000inhabitants.
To handle this growth the City of Stockholm has defined 9 growth centres around Stockholm. The first one to bedeveloped is Farsta.
Farsta was developed in the 1960’s as part of an ambitious vision for the suburbs as self sustaining entitiescontaining both housing, work-places, and city centres. In the centre of Farsta was Farsta Centrum, a state-of-the-artshopping mall.
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Today, Farsta Centrum still has a lot qualities – high quality modernist architecure, good sized public spaces, set in alush and beautiful landscape
Our plan for Farsta Centrum aims to transform it from a shopping mall, into an active, vibrant and lively city centrefor the inhabitants of Farsta
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We propose 3 strategies:
Strategy 1 – Create neighbourhoods!The Station Neigbourhood-The Park Neighbourhood,The City Neighbourhood
Strategy 2 – Activate!An active and recreational spine becomes the heart of the area and connects it to its surroundings.
Strategy 3 – Connect!A series of promenades connect existing and new, the different neighbourhoods and the area to its surroundings
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Project Info:
Architects: COBE
Collaborators: SLA, Tyréns, ICP, Yngve Andrén Konsult
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Client: Atrium Ljungberg and the City of Stockholm
Program: Strategy and development plan
Size: 15 ha
Status: Parallel assignment 2014, on-going
Team: Dan Stubbergaard, Mads Birgens, Simon Sjökvist, Alexander Ejsing, Michal Michalowski, Ludvig Holtenäs
