A redesign of a pedestrian passage in Skärholmen Centrum : - variation on modernism´s theory of functional color

Abstract: Original project of Skärholmen was composed of a system of public spaces, but this was `broken´  by the closure of the connection between the two squares in 1986. Street between shopping buildings became part of the shoping mall. The current situation is dominated by the activity of consumption, and Storholmsgatan is characterized by an atmosphere of anxiety and constant over-stimutation. The project aims to think through what form of ´restoration´ of this system of public spaces could take. How can we work with quite constrained, long, linear spaces as site for architecture? What is the role of rhythm in producing experience? A theme for design is to produce spacial hierarchy and make  a contemporary variation on modernism’s approach of the funcional color in design process.