Renovation and Renewal of Harbour Area in Helsingborg

• Main Author: Wang, Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: KTH, Urbana och regionala studier 2020
• Subjects: urban design; urbanism; harbour; renewal; Helsingborg; Landscape Architecture; Landskapsarkitektur
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-301726

The project site in Helsingborg is located on a pier in a harbour area in Öresund, in Sweden’s southernmost province of Skåne. Helsingborg is Sweden’s eighth largest city. It is a densely built urban city, with a large former port area under redevelopment. The project site covers an old warehouse building - Magasin 405, and its surrounding plot. The goal is to re-use and repurpose the warehouse into a attractive meeting place in the city, while adding building volumes and public space to accommodate public activities and housing units within the project site. The new proposal is aiming to revatalize the waterfront area of Oceanhamnen (the Ocean Harbour) and help connect the segregated neighbourhoods ’North’ and ’South’ (”Norr” and ”Söder”) of the city centre. The renovation of Magasin 405 will make the waterfront district, and the city as a whole,more dynamic.