Parking; expired; transformation of a 50-year-old rowhouse parking lot into complementary housing and climate resilient green space
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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Master's Thesis
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Sweden is estimated to have between three to five parking slots per car, which adds
up to a total parking area that exceeds the total residential area in the country. At
the same time, housing shortage is a fact in many cities, and so are the increasingly
prevalent problems related to climate change, such as floodings and heat waves. This
thesis aims to investigate if and how urban parking space could be transformed to
help mitigate both of these issues. Focus is put on the shared parking lots in rowhouse
neighbourhoods, through the example of Persikogatan in Gothenburg.
Literature reviews and contextual research concludes that the role of private cars in
urban environments has changed significantly since the neighbourhood was built 50
years ago. The expansion of public transport along with introduction of carsharing and
other mobility solutions provides opportunity for re-evaluation of these types of older
residential parking spaces. Moreover, new multi-family housing is designed with less
than half of the parking space provided in Persikogatan. The research also provides
key strategies for housing shortage mitigation and climate resilience improvement.
These include dedicating the new housing to specific age groups and improving the
diversity of housing sizes, as well as increasing the ratio of green to paved area in the
neighbourhood.
Through an iterative design process, involving site visits, reference studies and model
explorations, all this research was translated into an architectural design proposal
taking half of Persikogatan’s parking space into consideration. The previously paved
area is replaced by green and permeable landscaping, new common spaces and 12
additional apartments catered specifically to elderly.
The thesis results in a site-specific proposal, designed to complement the existing
housing and functions in Persikogatan neighbourhood. However, the discourse and
many of the design features are also applicable to other similar projects and shows
how a previously unquestioned urban typology can be better utilised with consideration
to current day needs. The thesis also gives explicit examples of how building
material from redundant structures can be revitalised in a new context, and how
characteristic design features could be interpreted in new ways
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Housing shortage, climate resilience, depaving, sustainable densification, urban transformation