Circular transformation in Varvsstaden
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 1 200 000 |
| Project duration | November 2024 - September 2025 |
| Status | Ongoing |
| Venture | Impact Innovation: Designing the places of the future for attractive, accessible and sustainable communities |
| Call | Impact Innovation: Designing the places of the future for attractive, accessible and sustainable communities |
Purpose and goal
The project explores how we can re-evaluate, use and design existing urban environments in a circular and regenerative way, with an existing building facing a transformation. The project is to be an important element in the questioning of conventional methods and approaches for the transformation of existing buildings. The goal is to create visions of the future that question conventions and manifest alternative approaches to how we look at consumption and aesthetics.
Expected effects and result
By questioning conventional, linear processes in construction and property development, the visions of the future shall present new methods and approaches to the view of consumption and aesthetics. The staff house is used as an example of how we can reevaluate use, materials and aesthetics in collaboration with site and need owners. The results should inspire other projects, both in Malmö and other cities, where similar places are transformed to create value for both people and the environment.
Planned approach and implementation
The project runs from November 2024 to 30 September 2025. The activities are divided into four work packages which are not carried out in solitary processes but overlap each other in time as well as participants and competences. The activities should fuel each other and be parts of a larger context. The work package Designing future visions, where the compilation itself and the final product are completed, is a horizontal activity whose output is based on results from other activities.