TY - CHAP
T1 - The Ellstorp Lot
T2 - An Undefined Urban Landscape
AU - Finn, Maria
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Since the 1990s, Malmö's Lot 30:40, situated near the railroad, has been left in a state of decay. Formerly an area of allotment gardens owned by railroad employees, this is now a disused field, with a scattering of fruit trees harking back to the now-vanished allotments. The site is occasionally maintained by its owner, Jernhusen AB, but is largely unmanaged and unscrutinized. The site appears as a mix between terrain vague and overgrown garden, but is used by city residents as a recreational area. Sometimes homeless people set up tents and cook here, but this exceeds the limit of what the owner can abide, and the temporary homeless residents are made to leave. The area is in a state that defies usual descriptions and thus offers an urban space in which activities are not defined in advance. Malmö Lot 30:40 can be seen as existing in a fluid state since it has not yet taken definite shape, yet its disordered state, it simultaeously offers some relief as a space that defies change and embraces the disordered.
AB - Since the 1990s, Malmö's Lot 30:40, situated near the railroad, has been left in a state of decay. Formerly an area of allotment gardens owned by railroad employees, this is now a disused field, with a scattering of fruit trees harking back to the now-vanished allotments. The site is occasionally maintained by its owner, Jernhusen AB, but is largely unmanaged and unscrutinized. The site appears as a mix between terrain vague and overgrown garden, but is used by city residents as a recreational area. Sometimes homeless people set up tents and cook here, but this exceeds the limit of what the owner can abide, and the temporary homeless residents are made to leave. The area is in a state that defies usual descriptions and thus offers an urban space in which activities are not defined in advance. Malmö Lot 30:40 can be seen as existing in a fluid state since it has not yet taken definite shape, yet its disordered state, it simultaeously offers some relief as a space that defies change and embraces the disordered.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004355620_010
DO - 10.1163/9789004355620_010
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-90-04-35560-6
T3 - Architectural Intelligences
SP - 157
EP - 166
BT - Architecture and Control
A2 - Ring, Annie
A2 - Steiner, Henriette
A2 - Veel, Kristin
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -