Malmoe (o Malmö), the third largest city in Sweden, has one of the ecobarrios executed in northern Europe theoretical exemplary of what should be a sustainable neighborhood. We talked about the district 600 housing Västra Hamnen, Located next to the West Bridge.
The Scandinavian city after celebrating the European Fair Housing 2001, has responded, with the execution of this neighborhood, the challenges in this event for future cities.
For over fifteen years, the council was psyched to its citizens on environmental issues. The focus is global and integrates all levels: encourages children in schools to plant trees and making improvements to the public transport system. But the flagship project is the transformation of the western port area, what was a working-class neighborhood in decline, has become one residential with all the advances in ecological.
An urban project can be considered "sustainable" when it incorporates all the constraints linked to the three areas of sustainability: environmental, economic and social. Quite often certain urban projects are labeled erroneously as ecobarrios when only possess qualities mediambiental field, not complying with the economic and social sustainability.
Alongside this neighborhood Malmo in Europe could also be taken as an example Vauban in Freiburg (Germany) and Hammarby Sjöstad, in Stockholm (Sweden)
Broadly speaking, the main features of the district are as follows Västra Hamnen:
- The 100% of the energy consumed is derived from renewable sources produced locally. For example, extracts heat pump groundwater from the North Sea and the network reverts to heating and air conditioning of the city. An installation 1.400 square meters of solar panels also provides the city power grid.
- As for mobility planning of its inhabitants, Malmö has favored the use of bicycles and public transport that electricity and gas used as fuel- from the port area to downtown and the neighborhoods of the city. Also, has limited car use.
- The buildings of West Port, that have 3.000 square meters of green roofs, are flanked by two large parks designed to accommodate local plant species, allowing air purification city. Formerly an industrial area virtually abandoned, West Port had a surface contaminated with chemical residues, were decontaminated before building homes and facilities. In this way it has become a leisure of great importance for the citizens of Malmö, mainly by contact and enjoy the sea.
Made waterfront deck and stairs where people can
sit and rest.
- The citizens of the new neighborhood recycle and properly classified 70% generating waste. A subway system transports waste pneumatic suction previously classified. The biodegradable, for example, are transformed into biogas for heating subsequently employed.
- All homes in this suburb of Malmö have wireless broadband Internet.
Hamnen Västra Waterways
Public spaces where the pedestrian is the protagonist. Background, Turning Torso Tower Calatrava
It is a common project based on the awareness of the population and in the vocational commitment of elected politicians, which should serve as an example for many European municipalities.
As explained Carlos Alberto Regolini, Doctor of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid:
"The result is companies that make cities healthier, efficient and attractive, while cities make more competitive companies, aware and integrated. "
