Architecture and Compensation : Renewal and Expansion of the City Library in Gothenburg
Paper i proceeding, 2022
The objective is to investigate, analyse and discuss compensation in architecture and planning processes. The specific goal is to produce knowledge on how key players practise compensation and understand heritage values and architectural qualities. The research is based on a single case study. From a selection of 39 contemporary, detailed development plans obtained from the City Planning Office in Gothenburg, one plan has been chosen for investigation in this paper. The motive behind this selection is that the expansion provides both an interesting background to quality issues and raises important questions concerning the renewal of a public building at a site of great value for citizens.
Key documents in the case study have been analysed through close reading. Knowledge has also been developed through analyses of drawings, illustrations, site visits and discussions at seminars.
The detailed development plan can be understood both as a product and a process. Seen as a product, compensatory measures are embedded in the plan as fixed regulations to support renewal as well as to safeguard values and architectural qualities. These regulations concern both land use and architectural design. Compensatory thinking as part of the planning process is expressed through changes based on comments from key actors, starting with the design of the expansion of the library, and is continued in the transformation to make the renewal possible through the detailed development plan.
Architecture
Quality
Detailed development plan
Design
Value
Compensation
Författare
Magnus Rönn
Chalmers, Arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, Byggnadsdesign
Compensation in Architecture and Archaeology – On Compensation as a Project, Method and Professional Practice
52-82
978-91-983911-3-8 (ISBN)
Kiel, Germany,
Drivkrafter
Hållbar utveckling
Styrkeområden
Building Futures (2010-2018)
Ämneskategorier
Arkitektur