Reorientationstt
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The document proposes seven interventions to improve the city of Murmansk. The interventions aim to soften the inner city, make industrial areas more accessible, and connect people with the surrounding landscape. The interventions focus on temporary or evolving projects involving ecology, creativity, and diversity. They include turning unused garages into art studios, building a pier on the fjord, planting an apple farm, creating a kiwi garden in an apartment complex, converting an empty factory into a flexible space, and connecting the interventions with an express train line. The goal is to activate underused spaces, bring nature into the city, and provide opportunities for art, culture and community.
Reorientationstt
- 1. REORIENTATIONS Maps These maps visualize the relation between different buildng types in Murmansk. It is striking how few single houses there are all over the city and how similar the living blocks appear. The map showing “other buildings” are in a high number related to industry. These buildings are numerous in the outer parts of the city. They create heterogenic and differenciated spaces in contrast to the inner city. Inteventions I have made seven proposals of actions that could be done in order to improve the city. I want to soften the raw feeling that the inner city gives, make the industrial areas in outer city areas more available to the citizens and make people get in contact with the landscape surrounding them. Key words for my interventions are ecological processes,creativity and innovation and diversity. In all interventions have I focused on temporality in one way or another, meaning that I am mainly throuwing the first stone into something that might become a cairn, or something totally different,
- 2. Bird´s nest Lightway express Applefarm Kiwifruit backyard Flexi Factory Pier Garage rock and Art Studios Roads and railway 4-9 storey buildings, schools and hotels Single houses and 2-3 storey buildings Garages Houses not for living Intervention map
- 3. GARAGEROCK AND ARTSTUDIOS The unique garages of Murmansk has a long history could be handed a garage as a studio for whatever crea- and are special to the russians not only because of tive field they are pursuing. their appearance, but because of the many activities and gatherings that have taken place there since the Art, music and creativity are some of the key stones in a 70s. Sadly, a lot of them are being thorn down today society. to make place for parking houses. Fewer garage owners use their garage in the social way they used The garages are quite easily moved, so they can move to before. them and shape the outside area after own preferences. But even though the garages are loosing its previous It is not sure how this project would develop over time, but program, they have too many positive sides to remove hopefully there would be more creative, happy youth, them completely from the city. maybe with initiative to make cultural and social changes in the city. The offers for youth in Mutmansk are very few, even though there is being built one youth house today. I am suggesting that determined youth from murmansk
- 4. BARENTSFJORD PIER Today most of the coast in Murmansk is not In the wintertime the water freeze. Then the available for the citizens. Pier turns out as a waiting bench for people ice skating down the fjord. I want people to get better contact with the fjord. The pier can be built longer and change after needs. Maybe we find out more about the fish I have made a pier that goes straight out on the and seals so that we can adapt it more to their fjord and goes down into the water. needs. Bird´s nest From the end point you can sit and watch the By making some of traffic through the dock, I city from afar. hope this can make the coast more available for the citizens. If the ocean is clean enough for the salmon one can fish or take a bath and watch birds and people sailing.
- 5. APPLEFARM People sitting between the trees, eating apples After doing research and finding out that On this collage I have also made a bigger apple trees, allthough not the same type in space for vulnerable road users, so that the south, do grow in the Arctic, I figured people easily could be either skiing in the why not plant one here in Murmansk, right winter or bicycling in the summer. next to the road for cars? Maybe this could expand, attracting birds and wildlife, and the people of Murmansk would harvest it and make cider, like a new Hardanger?
- 6. THE KIWIFRUIT BACKYARD WAKING PEOPLE UP FROM THEIR “SLEEP” BY ART MAKE PEOPLE THINK “he Arctic Beauty Kiwi is a native of Russia. The most MAKE VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE hardy of all kiwi vines, it is able to withstand temperatures of -40 degrees, and thrives from Canada to Florida. It's vibrant shades of hot pink, white and jade colored leaves make it a perfect show piece for your garden. Another THE WAY THE CITY IS, IS NOT A MUST, THEY ARE added feature of the kiwi is that it grows equally well in sun INDEED FREE AND CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT Most of the huge building blocks in the inner city has no or shade, however to get the brightest colors it is best to green area and no place for the people living there to meet plant it in a sunny spot. The fact that they naturally attract butterflies and hummingbirds to your yard is just another and children to play. bonus you get by adding the THE UGLY TRUTH; DON´T CLOSE YOUR EYES TO IT. IT IS Arctic Beauty Kiwi your garden.” I have made a proposal for a half inside-, half outside A REASON WHY WE FEEL BAD REALISING REALITY, AND garden placed in the middle of the backyard. THAT IS BEACAUSE IT IS WRONG Suggestion for plants are the arctic kiwi, arctic berries and other fruit. The building materials are fishnets on which the plants grow. The whole structure is easily adjusted to make new spaces and facilitate the plants growth. In spring, summer and autumn it is a blossoming flower and fruitfest, while in the winter, the snow on the net make walls and roof like an iglo, and the naked trees create diverse spaces. The organic grains softens the hard concrete block surroundin it. This is a space that changes vastly all year round with the plants, it can also be ajusted mechani- cally by changing the wires keepin it up.
- 7. FLEXI FACTORY Much due to the declining population, Mur- By finding a new program for one of them, mansk have a lot of empty and decaying build- there is a reason for people to hang out on this ings. Many of these can become usable by industrual part of the city which is heterogenic only a little work. These buildings have char- and full or surprises. acter and make unique spaces. As a further development I hope that people I have made a new program in one of the can see the potensial in the old before building empty factories on the coastal side of the city. something completely new. The program is actually anything from con- serts, markets, exhibition area etc. With a couple of handy hands one can easily trans- form it into almost anything.
- 8. MURMANSK EXPRESS Murmansk has many traintracks. I have made use of an unused one and turned it into a different kind travelling for murmansk citizens. It is faster, more eco-friendly than cars and more fun. It connects my other interventions in the city.
- 9. BIRDS NEST The idea of the birds nest is to incourage people to go out of the city and and see the surrounding nature and wildlife. It is mainly a pathway out of the city which ends up on a mountaintop nearby. The path is easy on the landscape. It can easily change direction and spread out grains. The current endstop is a viewpoint where one can look at the city from afar, with a birds view, without any enormous statues next to you.