Development of Holstebro town
Holstebro
2019 - 2049

A green strategy for the cultural hub

Holstebro has a population of 36 thousand. A 21.000m2 plot near the town centre is liberated as the town hospital will move to new facilities. This is why Holstebro municipality and the Færch Foundation have established Holstebro Development and launched a competition for the future of Holstebro.

Team Vandkunsten won the competition with strategic approaches to improve the connections within Holstebro with the town’s vibrant cultural scene, its surrounding nature, and a diversified housing catalogue.

The freeway divides the town

The town center and Holstebro’s catchment area is currently divided by the freeway which acts like a city wall around the center. Team Vandkunsten has developed strategies to penetrate the wall with landscape elements and by enhancing cultural features.

Planning for three areas

Projektfakta

Bygningsdata

Project_name: Development of Holstebro town

Category:Planning

Client: Holstebro Udvikling

Location: Holstebro

Gross_area: 21.000

Date: 2019 - 2049

Status: Under development

Opgaven

Program: Urban development

Activity: Urban planning and transformation

Job_type: 1. prize in architectural competition

contact: Jan Albrechtsen, jal@vandkunst.dk

Contact_group:Jan Albrechtsen, Maria Ramild Crammond, Pauline Faaborg, Olivia Thomsen, Nanna Marie Vindeløv-Rasmussen, Emma Rishøj Holm, Astrid Vang Kaspersen, Pernille Schyum Poulsen

Rådgiverteam

Architect: Vandkunsten Architects

Landscape: Skaarup Landscape and Torben Schønherr

Engineer: ÅF

Consultant: ICP