Kiruna: a Swedish town that will change places
Some architects are known to move the masses with its design to leave any gaping, but few are those who can literally move entire cities. One of them is the Studio of architects Swedish White Arkitekter recently won an international competition to move the city of Kiruna, in Sweden.A century of mining has caused several cracks and cracks in the basement that destabilize the foundations of the small town, and the White Arkitekter presented a plan to resettle the city over the next few decades.Kiruna was founded by a mining company in 1900, and subsequent years of iron extraction have destabilized the foundations of the city. Thus, it is necessary the relocation of the city and of its 20,000 inhabitants â€" see a current photo of the city in the Gallery (Photo 19).The project presented by the architects winners intends to move the city from West to East, a process that will take place in several stages, and make the city a more vertical than horizontal space.The first phase of the plan will create a new center of the city, which will be a great Avenue with direction from West to East that will pass through the Centre of the current city. Gradually, the density in the East of the new city will be increased while the West buildings are dismantled."Relocate literally a city will be a bit like walk like a centipede with their house and move feet in slowly a few kilometres to the East," says Mikael Stengvist, architect of atelier chosen, cites the Inabitat.
Although the process is inconvenient for the inhabitants of Kiruna, there are some advantages associated with the massive relocation project. Since the city expanded rapidly due to its dependence on ore, the location lacks modern infrastructure, which makes it isolated. Part of the project of relocation of Kiruna will contemplate a new transport system, including trams and trains will improve links to neighboring towns. There are also high hopes that the new city attract new business and trade, making the city less dependent on the ore.
The ore in this town is limited, since there isn't much raw material to extract. When iron runs out, the municipal authorities intend to transform the surroundings of the mine and part of the ancient city in a Green Park that aims to be a waypoint on the reindeer migration route.
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