Towards an Interactive Winter City- New Directions for Kiruna

• Main Author: Sarkar, Wrishitesh
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö 2020
• Subjects: winter city; Kiruna; Sweden; Lapland; urban deformation; interactive urban spaces; sustainable urban design; climate comfort; summer; winter; landscape; urban strategies; Arts and Architecture; Arctic; Tuolluvaara
• Online Access: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/9029789

Kiruna, the northernmost city in the sub-arctics of Sweden, is currently witnessing an unprecedented deformation and reformation of the urban form due to the ongoing erosion of the land mass. This has made it necessary to move the city centre around 3 kilometres to the east. Due to the deformation timeline, it has opened up new possibilities of expanding the city further towards the north-east and east with the Tuolluvaara landform as it's core. There have been questions still prevalent as to how to make the urban realm in winter cities more usable and interactive while maintaining the winter mobility. This project explores this possibility of expansion through a design proposal of the urban environment keeping in mind the sub-arctic conditions and respecting the existing unique landscape of Kiruna. The aim is to understand how site-specific strategies can be implemented to maintain the regional and local connections and to make Kiruna an interactive winter city.