STRATEGY SCALE 1:20000

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The strategy reorganises Malmö’s coastal and inner-water structure through a system of green corridors, blue connections and soft transformation zones, redefining the waterfront as an active urban–ecological threshold. The territorial structure is built on five strategic operations: 1. Water Barriers The existing basins and harbour waters are recognised as strong spatial borders. Instead of treating them as inactive edges, the strategy uses them as structuring voids that organise development, public spaces and ecological corridors. 2. Open Water Connections New open water links dissolve the rigid separation between the sea, inner canals and green systems. These connections allow water to penetrate deeper into the urban fabric, introducing cooling, retention and biodiversity-supporting landscapes that form the base for Nature-Based Solutions (NBS). 3. Green Connections A continuous network of linear green corridors connects coastal landscapes, parks and inner green areas, creating an ecological spine that supports pedestrian and cycling movement while reinforcing environmental continuity. 4. Soft Transformation Zones Selected areas are defined as soft transformation zones, where new public programmes, landscape infrastructures and low-intensity development can gradually replace rigid industrial or infrastructural uses, forming inhabitable urban thresholds. 5. Missing Connections & Weak Areas Weak and fragmented zones indicate strategic gaps in the urban structure. These areas are targeted for new pedestrian, cycling and landscape links that reconnect isolated districts to the waterfront system. Highway and infrastructural barriers are crossed by new transversal links, turning former hard borders into permeable urban seams. This territorial framework directly supports the architectural intervention on the coastal peninsula, where water, green infrastructure and pavilion structures form a new public ecological district.

STRATEGY SCALE 1:2000

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The selected project area is located in Malmö, at the meeting point of the sea, a canal and three urban zones with clearly differentiated functions: a residential area, a sport and leisure complex, and an underused green peninsula. Despite their proximity, these zones remain spatially and functionally disconnected. Hard waterfront edges and the canal itself operate as physical and perceptual barriers, fragmenting public space and limiting everyday access to the water. The site was chosen as a representative example of a contemporary urban coastal threshold, where water and infrastructure divide the city instead of connecting it. The area reveals a clear conflict between the natural value of the waterfront and its current infrastructural and technical character.The strategic objective of the project is to reinterpret this fragmented boundary as a spatial seam — a continuous, inhabitable structure that reconnects the separated zones into one coherent urban landscape system. Rather than introducing new building density, the strategy focuses on spatial continuity, public accessibility and ecological performance. The main strategic principle is the differentiated transformation of edges: while some waterfront sections are strengthened to protect the city from flooding, others are deliberately softened to enable contact with water, social activity and ecological integration. Through this approach, the former barrier becomes an active connective layer between the sea, the canal and the urban fabric.