The gotlandic mix salad

Location: Visby, Sweden

Team Melita: Prisca Arosio and Vittoria Rossi

Competition Info: Europan 2019, Productive Cities - implanting (Ensuring the cities to be both productive and sustainable, they have to interlink resources, mobilities and conditions of fairness so that to create new dynamics according two aspects: productive milieus and productive uses.)

Dimensions: Strategic site 10 ha - Project site 2 ha

Program: residential area 8,370 smq gfa, commercial area 760 smq gfa, office space 840 smq gfa, total parking area 16,000 smq gfa of whitch 1,024 smq gfa for residents and 2,310 smq gfa for office use.

2019

The future vision of Östercentrum is a mix of various elements, combined together to create a complete mixed use structure, as if it’s a collection of green ingredients for a MIX SALAD. Each piece of the design is added to create a productive system. The masterplan is in a way that lets every small peace to work together to create something for the good of the Island. The design will enhance the quality of life as a whole. Each component is crafted while contributing to the existing eco-system. The “Live Components” are powered by people and their social connections. Östercentrum will be dedicated to Food production and will help to raise inhabitant’s spirit and the island’s economy to build up a food culture identity. Food will be the pride for Gotland!