Place: Uppsala, Sweden
Team: MASU Planning (Main advisor / Landscape architect), Bjerking (Engineer), Lighting Design Collective (Light designer)
Client: Municipality of Uppsala
Size: 9.000m2
Timeline: 1st prize in competition, 2024 / Construction, 2025-2026
Rosendals Trog
Rosendals Torg is designed as a vibrant urban living room, offering space for everyday life and events of all sizes, creating a welcoming & adaptable heart for the neighbourhood.
The square is designed to be both dynamic and calm at the same time, allowing everyone to find a spot that suits their specific needs for the day – whether they want to be active or relax.
A natural meeting place
The project is a result of a two-phase competition where our entry ‘Gläntan – a natural meeting place’ was selected as a winner.
Gläntan means clearing, and our vision has been to create a safe, sustainable, and inclusive urban space in the form of a multifunctional and resilient meeting place. A natural gathering spot with abundant greenery, addressing climate challenges through measures such as rainwater management and a high proportion of recycled materials, which reduce the project’s overall climate footprint.
When Rosendals Torg is completed, it will be a cozy and vibrant square with a focus on green spaces. A square filled with activities, surrounded by streets with shops, entertainment, a library, a sports hall, and an activity building, making it the heart of one of Sweden’s most innovative residential areas.
The Jury motivated the winning project as follows:
“The project is a result of a two-phase competition “The proposal is well-developed and convincing, with its logical structure striking a good balance between a square and a green, urban oasis. The open space in front of the cultural house naturally transitions into a softer and greener form towards the surrounding streets and the pavilion. Gläntan is created with a raw elegance, a strong sense of form in the use of recycled materials, and well-studied details in the interplay of materials. The proposal beautifully combines the free forms reminiscent of forest spaces with the square’s solid and flexible surfaces.”
