Vision for Tampere West+
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
VISION FOR TAMPERE WEST+ A COLLABRATIE PLACEMG CHARRETTE FOR THE WESTERN CITY CENTRE € € € € € € “Getting to know other businesses & city council people & understanding the big picture - everyone now sees the whole Vision. Going forward we will understand the whole picture & it will be easier for us to make decisions knowing this.” CONTENTS 2 EUROPE 3 COLLABORATIVE PLACEMAKING 1.1 Why a collaborative Charrette 8 1.2 The WEST+ Process 10 The following partner jointly contributed to the PLANNING BRIEF (ANDREAS) WEST+ project City of Tampere FINLAND 2.1 Stakeholders’ Objectives 15 2.2 Experts planning brief 16 Tram Programme 2.3 Public Community’s Brief 18 2.4 Key Themes 20 D-Kulma TAMPERE WEST+ VISION EQ 3.1 Placemaking Concept 24 HELSINKI Finnpark 3.2 Vision Masterplan 38 3.3 ‘Tame the car”/ Mobility 42 Lahtiset Oy 3.4 Connecting Green 52 3.5 Cultural Loop 68 Metsä Group/ TAKO CHALLENGE & OUTCOME 3.6 Keskustori 76 POK/ Sokos 3.7 The nine blocks 94 3.8 Increase residential 100 Särkanniemi - Amusement Park THE CHALLENGE • How to create additional attractions and support 3.9 Business- and Employment Areas 112 cultural institutions? It is clear that every inch of the city centre has a story 3.10 Celebrate the waters 114 Sponda to tell, of historical backgrounds, previous planning • How to keep important jobs in WEST+, when decisions, political priorities and much more. At the everywhere else in Tampere new business areas INNOVATION & SUSTAINABILITY Varma are being developed? same time, the city’s agenda is full of challenges as its 4.1 Innovation Strategy 124 declared aim is to become carbon neutral already in These and many more issues have been considered VTS 4.2 GreenScenario 128 2030, which is 5 years earlier compared to Finland as a during a complex Community Planning process. country. “Finns always like to have a good race!”, yes, 4.3 Sustainability Goals and Tools 130 but in the western part of Tampere city centre those A VISION FOR TAMPERE WEST+ responsible are facing any number of dilemmas, which Key ideas that emerged from the Vision Charrette were WAY FORWARD are asking for clear answers, including: presented to the local community with a worldwide 5.1 Main Vision Elements 138 THE PLANS CONTAINED IN THE VISION WORK ARE NOT ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EXISTING PLANS, FORMULAS, ETC. OF THE CITY OR OTHER PARTIES. THE AIM • Introduce walking and cycling to reduce car usage. live stream on Wednesday 30 September 2020: 5.2 Next Steps for Tampere City 140 OF THE WORK HAS BEEN TO FREELY BRING NEW PERSPECTIVES TO THE DISCUS� • Attract thousands of new residents whilst keeping Keskustori as the revitalised heart of West+ including a 5.2 Politics & WEST+ Town Team 142 SION, WHICH IS WHY IT HAS BEEN DESIRED TO MAKE PRESENTATIONS THAT ARE wintergarden, mobility hub, new footbridge links and NOT IN LINE WITH CURRENT DECISIONS OR PLANS. THE FEASIBILITY AND FURTHER important green and leisure features that make a PLANNING OF THE PLANS WILL BE REVIEWED AT A LATER STAGE, IF NECESSARY. difference in liveability. exciting events all year round: establishment of a new APPENDIX vibrant mixed use urban quarter with a new ‘culture • Strengthen the commercial heart despite reduced 6.1 Web-based public questionnaire 146 EDITORIAL loop’ linking visitor attractions within West+; PUBLISHER: CITY OF TAMPERE car parking. investment in parks and green spaces around West+ 6.2 Survey Housing Co-operatives 148 VISIONING TEAM: JTP (LONDON), EBLE MESSERSCHMIDT PARTNER (TÜBINGEN), ANDREW CAMERON ASSOCIATES (LONDON). RAMBOLL STUDIO DREISEITL (HAM- • Activate joint projects and teamwork between 6.3 Hands on Planning Tables 158 with new connections focussed on active travel, BURG), IDEASCOUT (TAMPERE) public and private sector, whilst there isn't always including pedestrianisation of Kauppakatu linking 6.4 WEST+ Visioning Panels 178 PROCESS DESIGN & FACILITATION: VON ZADOW INTERNATIONAL trust between those parties. LAYOUT: ANDREAS VON ZADOW through to a rejuvenated Hämeenpuisto; a review of 6.5 FIVE STAR CITY CENTRE Panels 184 • Develop Keskustori, Tampere’s most important new housing development opportunities, parking and GRAPHICS: JTP, FRED LONDON, VERNA HAHTOLA EDITORS: MIKKO SIITONEN, FRED LONDON, ANDREAS VON ZADOW square: which uses should there be in the future? building-height policies in the central West+ area. TAMPERE 2020 A VISION FOR WEST+ INTERNATIONAL TEAM 4 5 ( Pictures 1-4 Atelier78 MASTERPLANNERS PLACEMAKERS Architectural Images Fotohaus TRAFFIC PLANNERS TAMPERE OFFICE TAMPERE 2020 A VISION FOR WEST+ COLLABORATIVE PLACEMAKING 1 CHARRETTE 1.1 WHY A COLLABORATIVE CHARRETTE? 8 COLLABORATIVE PLACEMAKING CHARRETTE 9 . HIGHLY COMPLEX SITUATIONS . BETTER DECISIONS . SPEEDIER DEVELOPMENT 9. MORE SUSTAINABILITY Charrettes are an excellent methodology to use in Having a shared overview of the urban planning The fact that so many important stakeholders and Collaborative thinking leads to better-integrated, multi stakeholder situations dealing with strategic, situation which the diverse group of stakeholders decision makers understand the complexity of the sustainable and more people oriented solutions that urban design decisions of major importance, as they and decision makers can discuss and develop situation through their creative collaboration helps support social life and health and increase the allow fair and transparent facilitation between all together provides a much better understanding of to pave the way ahead; Charrettes can have a sharing of resources, infrastructure and sustainable environmental, political and economic interests. the complexities and the ‘do’s and don'ts’. As a breakthrough effect which can accelerate the mobility. result, subsequent decisions, for instance of public timescales for development. planning frameworks or private investments, will be . PREVIOUS PROCESSES FAILED much better informed. 10. PREPARE FOR PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT Charrette processes are often commissioned when 8. MORE APPROPRIATE RESULTS Charrettes provide a safe, confidential atmosphere the ‘normal’ development tools such as architectural The holistic view provided by a Charrette process that allows transparent and creative exchange competitions failed to deliver satisfactory results. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES will establish the base for more integrated solutions; between stakeholders. As an optional next step, Sometimes Charrettes are used as a ‘third way’ to Charrette processes often result in delivering more there are no high quality, place making solutions wider public may also be included through overcome conflicts or deadlock situations that are than was envisaged by the initial brief. Inspired by without integrated planning. Spaces, services and Community Planning processes. preventing important future developments. the creative work, exciting results and future uses for the future users and customers of an area opportunities, additional stakeholders join ‘the club’ have to be designed beyond individual ‘box thinking’ and contribute their ideas as they take on board the or private property boundaries. Charrettes enable . TEAM BUILDING . FRESH VIEWS OF OUTSIDERS ‘win-win-win’ nature of the project. New public participants to think ‘outside their boxes’ so that the In highly complex or pressurised projects, a A key aspect for a Charrette is for it to be run by an funding lines are often found by Charrette outcomes will work better for everyone. Charrette process helps to identify and communicate experienced, interdisciplinary team of professionals participants to support the delivery of a project, and the key themes amongst a diverse group of actors from ‘outside’. Their independent, neutral views the Charrette report can be used as a great and initiators. Typically this leads to close enable them to facilitate the local process and to marketing tool for future initiatives of all kinds. collaboration that unites the players, rather than deliver design proposals that respond to the brief, everyone acting on their own and thereby getting reflect previous ideas and incorporate the into conflict with the other parties. stakeholders’ agendas. They may introduce new ways of thinking about longstanding problems. 4. ACCELERATE COMMUNICATION The basic idea behind a Charrette is to get the various stakeholders together in a forum that encourages them to exchange standpoints and ideas whilst jointly developing solutions. It creates a momentum to which all stakeholders are invited to contribute, whether from the public or private sector, local, regional or maybe even national authorities. Making this happen is not always easy but, because a Charrette creates not only a forum to be seen and heard but also an opportunity to exchange ideas and generate new ones, even major players tend to participate, giving rise to break- throughs in project communication that are unlikely to arise through traditional design processes. TAMPERE 2020 A VISION FOR WEST+ 1.2 THE WEST+ PROCESS 10 COLLABORATIVE PLACEMAKING CHARRETTE 11 WEST PROCESS DESIGN LÄNTISEN KESKUSTAN VISIOTYÖ The city of Tampere invited an international team led TAMPERE WESTERN CITY � VISION WORK by Von Z adow International and J TP to undertake a nine-month, interactive Charrette process, working with stakeholders and the wider community to create a Vision for the regeneration of the western part of the city centre, known as West+. WEBSITE INFORMATION A wide range of experts, city planning departments, Local interest groups and representatives of political parties were integrated into the 9 -month process. People