Byutvikling Hillevåg
This project documents and orients the future planning of the formerly industrial neighbourhood of Hillevåg, in the south of Stavanger. Hillevåg arises as a material case study for the realization of social sustainability in Nordic urban environments. While the concept has now become near-ubiquitous, socially sustainable designs remained formally and conceptually underdefined. Through our use of contextualised definitions, contemporary references, diagrams, or policy document excerpts, we put together an architectural portrait of social sustainability, and test its implications for the development of Hillevåg. So, our study is declined along various formats; each format functions as a pedagogical tool for targeted actors: city planners, architects and designers, city residents.
Our in-depth catalogue of examples is divided in seven themes: 1) Architecture and Building Cultures, 2) The Productive City, 3) Urban Furniture, 4) Green infrastructure, 5) Transformations and temporary measures, 6) Inclusive Streets and 7) Neighbourhoods. It is designed as a learning, open-access document on the multiple forms that social sustainability takes – pictures, drawings, data and text analysis demonstrate that socially sustainable futures have as much to do with ownership models, relation networks and State-funded programs as with buildings, streets and parks. Renderings and plans of three focus areas of Hillevåg are then shown as one practical, possible version of Hillevåg. It represents 3RW’s answer to the question: how do we ensure that our cities develop towards just, desirable futures?
Defining “social sustainability” in city planning and architecture is an exercise that necessitates visual support. Themed collections of references are associated with different areas of Hillevåg, extending political actors and inhabitants’ imagination of their neighborhood. In addition to the mapping of built amenities, special emphasis is given to potential street-level qualities, semi-private outdoor spaces and roof profiles.
