The Shoreline of Östhammar

2009
The brief for the competition site consists of three different parts: the park, public amenities, including a spa, and the hotel. The task was to make a scheme that encompassed these three parts and structures them into a whole. The winner proposal gives most opportunities for development. It was also a tastefully composed project with all requested details present.
In the program and proposal a big hotel is the centerpiece. Therefore the hotel is crucial for the implementation process. The winners have been commissioned to refine their proposal. The honorable mention has worked on a different part of the area.
This proposal leaves most of the park and offers a convincing scheme for connecting and restoring the waterside parks on the site and in the centre of the city of Östhammar.

2010-2012
The municipality has tried to sell the winning project to investors but the project has been considered too big and risky for this rather small municipality.
Future possibilities were discussed. Unfortunately the heart of the project makes it difficult for the municipality to involve the winning architects.
The honorable mention project presented far-reaching and creative proposals for the city park located within the competition area. The parking proposal was both an attractive design and feasible at reasonable costs for the municipality.
The architects were assigned to participate in producing a detailed plan and a design program for the park with additional kiosks.

2012-2013
Construction in four steps.
1_Demolition: demolish beach road at Sjörtorget, provisional sheds, walkway at Klappstugan, walkway at parking, reduce existing parking. 1_Construction: construct new buildings, new trade stalls, new walkway and bridges, northern part of the historic quayside, new parking, get new design to existing parking, new entrance plaza to the park created at the pump house, open pump house for new activities, new diagonal street with plants and gravel surfaces, new entrance to the park with plants and trees in the north part, planting new trees to replace elms.
2_Construction in the south part of the park: build new activity trails along the historic shoreline, new bridges and wild meadow in Strandparken, southern part of the historic quayside, new entrances to the park in the south, new pavement along a part of Guldskärsgatan, new graveled place at music pavilion, existing playground will be extended and linked to new route, new plants and existing restored, new trees in the park.
3_Demolition: demolish existing surface water conduit, walkway over surface water conduit, a part of the north harbor.
4_Construction: new surface water creek, re-use the extract materials, new pedestrian bridge over the creek, new entrance on south-west, picnic areas, new walkway in the south-east, new parking extension in Stradvägen, restored quays at Hambassägen.
The inauguration of the projet took place in June 2013.