RESPONSIVE SYSTEM

Team point of view

”Responsive System” emphasizes dynamic processes, resilience and adaptation through time, reactivating cultural and ecological dynamics at the water’s edge, accommodating the fluctuations of the river and the lake. The project responds to the hydrological, urban and ecological conditions that characterize the city of Kristinehamn as it meets the river. Rather that proposing an isolated answer, we identify a system of urban voids that can be connected and activated within a responsive framework for ecological and urban change. Moving beyond engineering, we envision the site as a dynamic water filter that supports a wide range of urban programs. The transition from river to land is thus seen as a gradient from wet to dry, a gradient evident in time, movement, vegetation, and in changing depth.