Travelling over Göta älvbron from the central station to Hisingen, Ringön is catching your eye. With the harbour and its cranes it is mentally, and by image, significant for the

identity of Gothenburg. The view tells you about what has built the city; labour based industry and shipping businesses. But new times are a heading. Bigger industries are

moving east and due to bigger ships, as one of many reasons, the harbour is moving out Göta älv. Gothenburg has developed towards a city based on knowledge industry and events. Ringön, a place today rarely visited by the average gothneburger but full of industrial activities, is

emptied out of the life it so far know. Along with this, RIngön is confronting future flooding.

As Ringön was originally a built island, it was built into Hisingen when Göta älvbron was constructed in the 1930*s. This means Ringön is defined as a weak spot when flooding issues are arising.

This project aims to deal with the move of activities and the threat of that Ringön is confronting in the future. As the identity is found as an essential and important part of Ringön, the image and the silhouette is a theme following the analysis and building on to the proposal. Proposing a kept morphology but a change of programme, extenstions of networks of public space, infrastructure and water RIngön give Gothenburg a new area where gothnburgers can live, work, pass by tram on their way to the centre, study and much more.

Varvstaden Ringön

Johanna Anderson-Ida Maria Classon- Elahe Karimnia-Nazanin Mehrin-Sahel Rezaee

Industrial Situation in Gothenburg

These areas are facing a new future as harbour industry is moving.

Industry is currently located by the water in Gothenburg

Gothenburg has to deal with future flooding problems

Göta älv has been filled with land during the last centuries.

Point of Departure

Ringön is located central in Gothenburg

A city fragmented by the river

What is identity?

Materials, harbour, buildings, streets, silhouette, hidden actors or production based programmes?

1-Street Network

3-Water

2-Tram line

4-Green

Ringön in the context

Image of Ringön, Silhouette

Ringön Today Scale Analysis

Ringön Today Landscape

Ringön Today Water Front

Ringön Today

Program

Human scale

Flooding issue

1.Industrial silhouette

3.Infrastructure

2.Built structure

4.Green as a program

5. Water

6. Program

Integration tools

: Tools for working with Ringön (industry): Keep the silhouette by keeping cranes and add some high rises. Create a network which is connection within- and to Ringöns surroundings. Extending the all ready existing boat line. Use green as a programme instead of a network in order to keep the industrial identity. Create a network by a continuous built structure.

Design Layers

Illustration Plan

Green Water Future Potentials Saved typology Changed typology

1.Water 2.Tram Line 3.Street Structure

1.

3. 2.

Context of Ringön

System for programme

Qualifications for buildings to be kept

Using Industrial left over, Containers, Tram Tracks …

Tools for working with Ringön (flooding): Use trees suitable for wet lands and moist soil. To use three types of ponds for water collection; natural pond, swimming lake and energy plant. To make the water front accessible for everyone we made it public by adding public programme such as offices, high rise housing and public transport along the water.

Living with water

Detail Plan

Flows of people and their concentration

Keeping Morphology Changing Typology

Cross Section of Action Plan

Varvstaden Ringön