Stockholm in Water

Stockholm is usually described as a city on water. The strategic placement between saltwater and freshwater have throughout history provided diverse and nutritious living conditions for water species. Today, shallow waters that many species are dependent on have disappeared in central parts of Stockholm, either by becoming new land areas or being excavated to create deeper harbors. There is a need to re-connect with the once cherished water body of Stockholm and to alter the idea of a city on water, to a city in water.

Proposal
• Reshaping artificial edges of culturally significant sites to enable human interaction and thereby reestablish an emotional attachment to the waterbody of Riddarfjärden.
• Reshaping artificial edges to recreate lucrative living environments for fish and mainly the key indicator, perch.
• Deal with sewage water ending up in lake Riddarfjärden through sequences of wetlands.
• Create new floating edges where human actors and non-human actors can co-exist.