KIMBERLY DISLEYPORTFOLIO 2013-2014

Kimberly Disley19920307-0181The Swedish School of Planning (BTH), Spatial Planning Bachelor Programme

Kimberly Disley

Born 7th of March 1992, Kristianstad, Sweden

Östra Prinsgatan 17, lgh 1201371 31 KarlskronaSweden

kimberly.disley@gmail.com

(0046)768-355533

This is me!

Kimberly Disley

Born 7th of March 1992, Kristianstad, Sweden

Östra Prinsgatan 17, lgh 1201371 31 Karlskrona

This is me!

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A House for Everyone A new Cultural Activity Center KarlskronaFM1470 - Architecture and Public SpaceYear 3, November 2014

Vertical flowsMaking way for new development by making way for peopleStockholmFM1469 - Complex Urban Planning ProjectsYear 3, Oktober 2014

Sustainable:izing SundsvallMaking Sundsvall more sustainable: from regional to block level strategiesSundsvallFM1465 - Planning och SustainabilityYear 2, Februari 2014

What is landscape?Investigating discourses about landscape for future planning strategiesKarlskronaFM1463 - Natural Resources and LandscapeYear 2, September 2013

Sundsvall

Stockholm

Karlskrona

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The following projects are a selection of projects aiming to showcase different types of work, with varying

focuses and processes, conducted during my time at the Spatial Planning Programme at BTH.

A House for EveryoneA New Cultural Activity Center

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Assignment: An individual projekt with the goal of designing and visualizing a new Cultural Activity Center/Performance Center in Karlskrona.

Requirements: The building should be approximately 900 square meters in total and contain two theatre/performance halls, one large and one smaller, supply room, dressing rooms and boxes, a foyer with toilets and a connecting cloakroom, a café and space for exhibitions. This should be presented through floor plans, cross-sections, façade illustrations and visualisations of the building in relation to its surroundings.

Prerequisites: A small and cramped plot with a slope which is located on a calm side-street to the main shopping street. One of the neighbouring buildings is a church.

Main objectives: A cultural activity center should always be a building available to everyone – no matter where you are from, your age, your abilities, your background or your gender. Karlskrona is a city that is dominated by public space in a large scale in relation to the size of the city. Therefore, I also wanted my cultural activity center and its yard to have a smaller and more intimate size and feel. I wanted the center to aesthetically link to the surrounding buildings and not be too much of a statement in itself, but instead a building that the citizens of Karlskrona relate to and make their own. The center should be a place for unexpected meetings and for bridging cultural and social gaps through these meetings.

Concept and design: The main motif for my cultural activity center was the modest shape of a house which in its simplest form can be found in the repetitive roofs of the building and the trellis porticos leading to both the main and the rear entrances. The reason for the choice of a house shape as motif, was that the cultural activity center should be A House for Everyone, as the slogan reads. The concept can be compared to the framework of a roof. For a roof of a house to hold, it needs to consist of several trusses. In the same way culture can only arise and be produces by the constitution of a society, a society consisting of many citizens – makers and observers, artists and collectors, actors and audiences. The cultural activity center is designed with the human scale in mind and in an intimate and private expression for everyone to feel welcome and at ease to create and take part of culture.

NThe new cultural activity centers location on Trossö

Second floor plan.

Ground floor plan.The shape of a house as motif when designing the new cultural activity center.

FLOOR PLANS

CROSS-SECTIONS ROOFING STUDIES

ROOFING STUDIES FACADE ILLUSTRATIONS

Facade facing east with surrounding buildings.

Facade facing north with surrounding buildings.

VISUALIZATIONS OF THE NEW CENTER

Rear entrance way next to the church.

View over the courtyard.

View from the new opening through the wall from Landbrogatan.

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PLAN OF SURROUNDINGS

Plan showing the cultural activity center’s surrounding along with a new pathway through a stone wall along Stora Möllebacksgränd. This pathway connects with Landbrogatan and the central bus stop located a short distance in that same direction which will make the building more accessable.

MODEL BUILDING

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Vertical flowsMaking way for new development by making way for people

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Assignment:To reshape a city district in Stockholm for future development following Stockholm City Planning Council’s visions and goals in groups of two. The district me and Viktor Becker, whom I worked with, were assigned to analyse and reshape the area surrounding Södertäljevägen just south of Stockholms inner city limits by Liljeholmen.

Requirements: An assessment of the area’s current conditions, Stockholm City Planning Council’s main objectives and goals along with strategies and ways of reshaping and redeveloping the area was to be presented in a plan programme and a report.

Prerequisites: Södertäljevägen today is one of the main motorways leading in to Stockholms inner city, stretching from the E4 in to Södermalm. The dimensions of the motorway were set during the 1950’s and therefore are very adapted to the demands of motor vehicles. Still, this road is often afflicted by vehicles queuing, especially during rush hours. The road is also a big barrier between different districts that geographically are located very near each other, but psychologically are far apart due to a lack of connectivity due to the barrier effect that Södertäljevägen creates.

Main objectives:For the city of Stockholm to be able to expand and for people and companies to be able to move or locate there the city has to build more and develop its service and infrastructure supply. The area around Södertäljevägen is one of a few designated areas for further development. This area is located very close to the inner city and is well supplied by service and infrastructure. This makes the area strategically well suited for further development. However, for the area to function as a whole and for people to be able to move swiftly in and around and to and from, its connectivity has to improve and the area has to be adapted to the people working and living there, instead of the vehicles passing through. This is why Södertäljevägen has to be remade. Me and Viktor both played and equal part in the analyse and ideas for how to reshape the area.

Concept and design:As main inspiration for our project we had The High Line Park in New York City along with the prevailing cycle infrastructure strategies and projects in countries such as The Netherlands and Denmark. We also

looked a lot towards Jan Gehl’s theory of planning in a way that makes room for people and meetings in the city through better connectivity and paying attention to scale. This view alongside a desire to make the area more sustainable by expanding the opportunities to travel in environmentally friendlier ways acted as the two main concepts for our reshaping of the area as to make way for new future development.

Södertäljevägens localization in Stockholm.

Södertäljevägen today:- Good passability for cars- High noise levels- Poor air quality- Aestetically dominating- Inadequate possibilities for walking and cycling- Physical barrier between districts- High trafiic intensity and traffic jams

Södertäljevägen tomorrow:- Restricted traffic on smaller street- Thorughfare in tunnel beneath ground- Less noise- Improved air quality- Improved possibilities for walking and cycling- Separated and safe pedestrian and cycling ways- Green passage- New meeting points for increased social sustainability- Destination point for residents as well as visitors

PROPERTIES: CURRENT & FUTURE

PROPOSED PLAN THOROUGHFARE

Plan of Södertäljevägen’s reshaping. Buildings only show proposed ways of using new construction rights when space is freed due to a new formation of the road. Following six original maps (line work) made by Viktor Becker, coulouring made by me.

Plan of thoroughfare below ground. All traffic passing through the area in toward the inner city goes through a tunnel and then curfaces again before bridging the water over to Södermalm.

Tunnel for passing traffic in to the inner city

LOCAL TRAFFIC PUPLIC TRANSPORT

Plan showing how the local traffic is restricted in the area. All motor traffic in towards the inner city has to go back and through the thoroughfare below ground.

Plan showing how the public transport has precedence over other traffic. Public transport is the only motor traffic allowed to drive through the area without going through the tunnel.

Side parking mixed with planted trees

Dislocation of car traffic to make room for bus stops

Obligation for cars to give way for public transport through roundabout

Separate outer lanes for public transport

Bus stops with easy access to the dockside

Roundabout where public transport can drive through instead of going round

Separate inner lanes for public transport

Train stop for Tvärbanan

Car traffic has to drive round bus stops located alongside the bus lane

Transition to joint traffic lanes with prioritization for public transport

The superstructure over the railway tracks of Tvärbanan

HIGH LINE CYCLE WAY

Plan of the new elevated High Line passage above the local city street Plan of the elevated cycle way above the High Line.

Stairs up and down from the High Line

Elevator in buildings leading up and down from the High Line Vegetation and places to sit

along the High Line

Extended space for public and possibilities for shops/cafés in the buildings linked to the High Line.

Extended space for public use and possibilities for shops/cafés in the building linked to the High Line

Connection between the elevated cycle way and Liljeholmsbron

Increase and decline to the elevated cycle way and connection to the local cycle network

Elevated cycle way for increased possibilities for commuting by bicycle

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CROSS-SECTIONS

Cross-section of the area showing the relation between street, High Line and elevated cycle way. Cross-section of an area where the High Line extends towards the surrounding building creating squares or social meeting spaces.

CROSS-SECTION MEASUREMENTS

Cross-section of thoroughfare with measurements in meters.

Cross-section of city street with measurements in meters.

Cross-section of the High Line with measurements in meters.

Cross-section of the elevated cycle way with measurements in meters.

Sustainable:izing SundsvallMaking Sundsvall more sustainable: from regional to block level strategies

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Assignment:To operationalize the vague concept of Sustainability in practice through spatial planning at different planning levels: Regional, City, District and Block in a medium-sized Swedish city. In our case this city was Sundsvall and our group consisted of myself, Karin Wilstrand, Fredrika Sandblom, Magnus Bohman and Gustav Jönsson.

Requirements: The group should settle for four strategies or measures for different levels of spatial planning for Sundsvall to become a more sustainable city – on all levels. These strategies should all be motivated through literature and should all be thought through based on sustainability’s three pillars: social sustainability, ecological sustainability and economical sustainability.

Prerequisites: All groups were assigned a medium-sized city and had to reach agreement concerning four strategies for this city without reading the planning documents of the municipal and let these documents affect our decisions. All strategies should therefore be based solemnly on maps, geographical conditions and pure facts.

Main objectives:To find solutions and strategies, suited for Sundsvalls conditions, that through spatial planning can be implemented but still taking all three dimensions of sustainability into account. All members of the group discussed and decided which strategies that were suitable and which ones to be chosen. The work with the visual material for each strategy was then distributed between us and my main task concerned the regional level. Therefore this level is represented more in detail.

Concept and design:Our collective name for the four strategies became Green Mobility because all four strategies could be linked to either a more environmentally friendly transport or less need of transport. The regional level through sustainable public transport and Green TOD:s. On a city-wide level, also through more environmentally friendly transport, by taking advantage of Sundsvall’s topography and using cable cars. On the district level focus was on cycling and walking. Making the city better connected and accessible by removing or piercing barriers. For the last and most detailed level, the block level, urban gardening could be linked to mobility by the decreasing need for transporting food.

Regional map. Original map by Gustav Jönsson and Magnus Bohman. Colouring by me

City map. Original map by Gustav Jönsson and Magnus Bohman. Coloured by myself.

REGIONAL LEVELA new train station and more compact building by Birsta City shopping center

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biological diversity

Map showing location of Birsta City shopping center.

Vision of a more susatinable and compact area around Birsta City. Original picture from Google Maps, adapted by me.

Diagram showing how Birsta City could be linked into the railway network. Diagram by Gustav Jönsson

SUSTAINABILITY IN SUNDSVALL

CITY LEVELA new cable car network between the north and south hills of Sundsvall

DISTRICT LEVELRemoving and peircing barriers for better access to the city on foot and by bicycle

BLOCK LEVELUrban gardering for local produce, lessening the need for food transports

Map showing suggested location of the new cable car route and stations Map showing our chosen city district.

Diagram showing how the district is full of barriers that should be pierced or removed for better accessability for pedestrians and cyclists.

Picture of how the cable car system can be integrated in the city silhoutte. Revised from original picture made by Magnus Bohman.

Map showing our chosen city block.

Map showing where other urban gardens could be located in the city.

Pictures showing urban gardening. Revised from original picture made by Karin Wilstran.

What is landscape?Investigating discourses about landscape for future planning strategies

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Assignment:To investigate and identify different discourses concerning landscape by interviewing people living in a certain place outside of Karlskrona. The project was carried through in groups of 5 – myself, Matilda Nilsson, Anna Török, Fredrika Sandblom and Axel Lönnqvist and the area we were assigned is named Harstorp and is located 13 kilometers north of Karlskrona. After identifying discourses strategies for future development were to be formulated for the area.

Requirements: To identify discourses and formulate strategies for development based on the interviews done, place inventory and the identified discourses.

Main objectives:To find out what the residents of Harstorp value in the area and how they look upon the surrounding landscape. To formulate strategies for development with the residents’ interests in mind and without compromising or destroying what they value most in the area and landscape. The interviews and written material was shared equally between the group members. The hand-drawn pictures and maps were distributed between three of us, whereas some of these are represented here.

Concept:What we realized while interviewing residents in the area, was that they truly appreciated the calm and rural feeling of the area and surrounding landscape. They did not want Harstorp to be anything else than what it is today and did not see any specific needs that were not fulfilled in the area. To many, the area is filled with family history, opportunity, calm and freedom. Therefore our strategy for the area became Continuity with a focus on maintaining the aspects that the residents value the most – free accessibility to nature and landscape, freedom to carry out different activities in nature, the feeling of community, the calm and steady stream of new residents moving to the area and restoring the older and appreciated landmarks and structures in the area.

CHOSEN STRATEGY

IDENTIFIED DISCOURSESLandscape as backcloth

Landscape as a sense of belonging to a place

Landscape as freedom

Landscape as activity

LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTICS

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bathing

huntingrecreation

varied landscape

countryside

belonging

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memories

walks

wide-open views

small scale

wild animals

Illustrations showing the varied and clipped landscape that creates edges and different spatial divisions in the landscape.

Illustration showing the landscape’s values based on the interviws.

KIMBERLY DISLEYPORTFOLIO 2013-2014

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