Stig L. Andersson

Portfolio

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  Al Fay Park (2020-2021)

  Al Fay Park in Abu Dhabi is the emirate’s first biodiversity park and represents a paradigm shift in how to design and imple-ment city nature in the dense megacities of the Middle East.
  The 27,500 m2 park is the first urban park in UAE focusing on biodiversity, social activities, and microclimate optimization. Designed aesthetically and climatically to be “the coolest place in town”.
  Al Fay Park is designed utilizing the latest knowledge and research in microclimate optimization and urban sustainability. Its high density of trees, plus modern irrigation systems, thus ensures that it uses 40 percent less water than traditional parks while providing a cool, comfortable, and unique round-the-clock place for all residents and visitors in Abu Dhabi to meet, play and live.
  
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  https://www.sla.dk/cases/al-fay-park/

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  Bjørvika Masterplan and urban spaces (2005-2023)

  New neighborhoods are often built according to plans in which public spaces occur as ‘gaps’ between the buildings. In Bjørvika Harbor, the planning is happening the other way around.
  As master planner and lead landscape architect, SLA is leading the regeneration of Oslo´s harbor and main water-front – the largest urban development project in Norway. In an international competition in 2005, SLA won first prize with a proposal to regenerate Oslo’s old industrial harbor and create a new mixed-use city district. SLA’s landscape-led masterplan reconnects central Oslo with its harbor and creates a new mixed-use district where city and water unite visually and physically.
  
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  https://www.sla.dk/cases/bjorvika-masterplan-and-urban-spaces/

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  China Mobile Nature Campus (2020-2023)

  The landscape for China Mobile Nature Campus is designed as a central green nature park – right in the middle of a hyper urban context. The nature park will be the heart of the new Head Quarter of China Mobile, tying the office building plots together in one coherent nature-based design.
  The nature park creates good working and living conditions for the employees by bringing nature into each em-ployee’s daily work life and ensures that all employees are encouraged to connect, innovate, and share knowledge.
  The China Mobile Nature Park is designed as one circular ecosystem that brings utility value, amenity value, and branding value to China Mobile. With the design, we are pushing the nature park right up close to the buildings and even extending it onto the rooftops. The aim is to create a direct relationship between workspaces and nature, thus maximizing the healthy, creative, innovative, and social effects of the park’s biophilic design – even when inside the buildings.
  The Nature Campus is a place where employees’ physical and mental health is in focus. This is not only good for the employees but also a good investment for China Mobile, as having healthy and happy employees will reduce illness and stress and attract the best workforce today and in the future.
  
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  https://www.sla.dk/cases/china-mobile-nature-campus/

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  Downsview (2019-2051)

  SLA is lead landscape architect for Toronto's new 520 acres resilient development project that will bring people, place, and nature together.
  Downsview will be developed on the site of the former Bombardier Airbase, and today the area is divided by roads, rail lines, and airbase. The new plan creates a new hierarchy between nature, public space, buildings, and infra-structure.
  The master plan’s guiding concept is ‘City Nature.’ In Downsview, one hundred acres of new open space will slice through the neighborhoods, creating small and mid-sized parks that carry rainwater, migrating species, cyclists, and kids at play – together with 50,000 units of housing for 80,000 people and more than 40,000 jobs by 2051.
  Crafted with comprehensive dialogue between a world-class design team and the community, the resilient master plan for North Toronto’s new Downsview district is green-minded, human-scale, and people-first.
  
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  https://www.sla.dk/cases/downsview/

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  Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: Empowerment of Aesthetics

  Stig L. Andersson was appointed Curator of the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014. The exhibition chal-lenges the dominant rationalist approach to architecture, by reintroducing the forgotten forces of aesthetics.
  The Danish pavilion is part of a larger project called ‘DK2050’ that debates the future of Denmark. DK2050 asks the ques-tion: How will we live in Denmark in 2050? What challenges will we face? And how can cities, politicians, and each one of us participate?
  In the 2050-scenario of the Danish Pavillon, both rationality and aesthetics are essential forces in our future cities and society. They are equal tools in our navigation and decision-making processes towards a sustainable way of life.

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  Naturkraft (2017-2020)

  The ambition of Naturkraft, located on the Danish west coast, is to create an iconic exploratorium and nature arena about the power and aesthetic values of nature.
  The nature arena encourages and challenges visitors to 1:1 experiences on the powers of nature through physical play, enlight-ening learning activities, and intuitive understanding of the interaction between humans and nature. Here, visitors will get fas-cinated by, experience, feel, and sense how the physical and aesthetic powers of nature will shape the sustainable cities and communities of the future.
  
  SLA has based the foundation of Naturkraft’s new nature on comprehensive research on the local area’s unique geodiversity, nature, and cultural history. Based on a 17-kilometer long ‘cross-section’ of the existing nature, eight specially designed nature typologies – such as the Sand Dune, the Heathland, the Marsh, and the Carbon Forest – have been combined into a new form of human-made ecosystem. An ecosystem-based equally on scientific insight into local geology, biodiversity, and cultural history as well as on the desire to create the strongest possible nature experience in Naturkraft.
  
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  https://www.sla.dk/cases/naturkraft/

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  Reinvent Paris – Ternes-Villiers (2015-2019)

  In the project Ternes-Villiers, SLA's winning project in the international mega competition Reinventer Paris, a 5,500 m2 urban roof deck is put across the Boulevard Peripherique – the big ring road that circles the whole of Paris. Combining city nature-based ecosystem services, fully climate-adapted urban spaces, and new social meeting places with underground parking, pedes-trian-friendly connections, and large roof terraces, which among other things will house a tea plantation, SLA works with city nature and urban life as complete ecosystems and creates brand new urban experiences and green contexts with cleaner air in an otherwise grey and traffic-congested part of Paris.
  
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  https://www.sla.dk/cases/reinvent-paris-ternes-villiers/

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  YUÁN - International Master Garden

  SLA’s founder Stig L. Andersson was, together with four other internationally renowned landscape designers, selected to cre-ate International Master Gardens for the Beijing International Horticultural Expo 2019.
  SLA’s Master Garden is YUÁN, a new Chinese sign for ‘garden’. In the project, SLA aims to create a new meaning of the Chinese garden in the Anthropocene era. YUÁN draws on a deep knowledge of China’s cultural history, nature, art, archi-tecture, and philosophy and re-uses these elements in a new and profound way. Thus, YUÁN shows how we can use traditional Chinese culture and nature in modern city planning to improve the quality of life for China’s population, while at the same time solving many of the challenges our cities, our world, and we ourselves, face today. In this way, YUÁN’s reinterpretation of historic elements in a present setting also (re)connects the visitors with nature – a connection so many modern city-dwellers, not only in China, have lost.
  
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  https://www.sla.dk/cases/yuan-international-master-garden/