Super Sustainable City Exhibit / Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture
Niclas Dahlgren
At an exhibit in Gothenburg, architects Fredrik Kjellgren + Joakim Kaminsky from Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture have designed a sustainable city as a ”glimpse of a possible sustainable future” for Sweden. The project, entitled Super Sustainable City, takes the analytical findings of a previous green initiaive,”Gothenburg 2050″ and presents a new “architectonic vision.”
More about the exhibit after the break.
The vision sees the Gothenburg River as the center of the new city. By focusing the urbanscape around the river, there will be shorter transportation times and the surrounding areas will be used to grow food and provide space for locally processed energy sources. To connect the city, the proposal utilizes “links” that actively join the community. A link can be a city street that will be redesigned to be filled with “happenings”. People can live on this link which will become a mega-structure over the river to “create a life of itself.”
The exhibit will be open through August and allows visitors to see possible steps that may be taken to turn Gothenburg into a sustainable entity. The project team, Super Sustainable©, has grown to consist of a group of committed people from all over Europe. Super Sustainable© is committed to “exploring, promoting and developing sustainable design solutions at all scales, from small gadgets to urban planning.”
Check out their blog and more details about the exhibit here. All images from the architects, unless otherwise noted.
Rooftop gardens, wind and solar power… what a great innovation, who would have ever thought of that? Wow, this is really going to be a SUPER sustainable city. (note the sarcasm)
Today there is an overuse of the term “sustanaible” as much as of the term “love”.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….somebody wake me up when Swedish architecture becomes any good…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Swedish architecture is steeped in history. Unfortunately, politicians and others have stood a bit in the way of super 21st C architecture (at least in Stockholm). That is not to say Swedish architecture is not ‘any good’, ‘loth’ (very vague comment). There are many examples of great architecture…
This idea is at least taking a step in the right direction. There are major expansion plans for Stockholm so I’m guessing planning for Gothenburg will be somewhere on the agenda.
Swedish architecture is really more about function than it is about form. I’m sure we’ll see lots of great sustainable architecture from Sweden in the future!
as of today, we are already experiencing a weather crisis all over the world. yes, this is sustainable, what about the problems that the river may cause?