1. REORIENTATIONS
Planting a tree
Inhabiting a factory
Hijacking a train
Keeping the garages and
inviting a new program
Make contact with wa-
ter
Inteventions
I have made seven proposals of actions that could be done
in order to improve Murmansk. Key words for my interven- Putting up a “tent “ in
tions are ecological processes,creativity and innovation the garden
and diversity.
In all interventions have I focused on temporality both in a
longterm sense and shortterm. Hopefully my actions will
develop further by themselves, improving life in Murmansk
for both humans, landscape and wildllife.

2. Bird´s nest
Lightway express
Applefarm
Kiwifruit backyard
Flexi Factory
Pier
Garage rock and Art Studios
Intervention map
Roads and railway 4-9 storey buildings, schools and hotels Single houses and 2-3 storey buildings Garages Houses not for living

3. GARAGEROCK AND ARTSTUDIOS
The unique garages of Murmansk has a long history though there is being built one youth house today.
and are special to the russians not only because of I am suggesting that determined youth from mur-
their appearance, but because of the many activities mansk could be handed a garage as a studio for
and gatherings that have taken place there since the whatever crea-tive field they are pursuing.
70s. Sadly, a lot of them are being thorn down today
to make place for parking houses. Fewer garage Art, music and creativity are some of the key
owners use their garage in the social way they used stones in a society.The garages are quite easily
to before. moved, so they can move them and shape the
outside area after own preferences.
But even though the garages are loosing its previous
program, they have too many positive sides to It is not sure how this project would develop over
remove them completely from the city. time, but hopefully there would be more creative,
happy youth, maybe with initiative to make cultural
The offers for youth in Mutmansk are very few, even and social changes in the city.

4. BARENTSFJORD PIER
Today most of the coast in Mur- In the wintertime the water freeze.
mansk is not available for the citi- Then the Pier turns out as a waiting
zens. bench for people ice skating down
the fjord.
I want people to get better contact
Bird´s nest
with the fjord. The pier can be built longer and
change after needs. Maybe we find
I have made a pier that goes out more about the fish and seals so
straight out on the fjord and goes that we can adapt it more to their
down into the water. needs.
From the end point you can sit and By making some of traffic through
watch the city from afar. the dock, I hope this can make the
coast more available for the citizens.
If the ocean is clean enough for the
salmon one can fish or take a bath
and watch birds and people sailing.

5. APPLEFARM
People sitting between the trees, eating apples
After doing research and finding out that apple trees, allthough not
the same type in the south, do grow in the Arctic, I figured why not
plant one here in Murmansk, right next to the road for cars?
Maybe this could expand, attracting birds and wildlife, and the
people of Murmansk would harvest it and make cider, like a new
Hardanger?
On this collage I have also made a bigger space for vulnerable road
users, so that people easily could be either skiing in the winter or
bicycling in the summer.

6. THE KIWIFRUIT BACKYARD
WAKING PEOPLE UP FROM THEIR “SLEEP” BY ART
MAKE PEOPLE THINK
“
MAKE VISIBLE THE INVISIBLE
Most of the huge building blocks in the inner while in the winter, the snow on the net make
city has no green area and no place for the walls and roof like an iglo, and the naked THE WAY THE CITY IS, IS NOT A MUST, THEY ARE
people living there to meet and children to trees create diverse spaces. The organic INDEED FREE AND CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT
play. grains softens the hard concrete block sur-
rounding it.This is a space that changes
vastly all year round with the plants, it can THE UGLY TRUTH; DON´T CLOSE YOUR EYES TO IT. IT IS
I have made a proposal for a half inside-, half
outside garden placed in the middle of the also be ajusted mechani-cally by changing A REASON WHY WE FEEL BAD REALISING REALITY, AND
backyard. Suggestion for plants are the arctic the wires keepin it up. THAT IS BEACAUSE IT IS WRONG
kiwi, arctic berries and other fruit. “he Arctic
Beauty Kiwi is a native of Russia. It it is able
to withstand temperatures of -40 degrees and
it grows equally well in sun or shade, how-
ever to get the brightest colors it is best to
plant it in a sunny spot. Tthey naturally attract
butterflies and hummingbirds.”
The building materials are fishnets on which
the plants grow.The whole structure is easily
adjusted to make new spaces and facilitate
the plants growth.In spring, summer and
autumn it is a blossoming flower and fruitfest,

7. FLEXI FACTORY
Much due to the declining popu- area etc. With a couple of handy
lation, Mur-mansk have a lot of hands one can easily trans-form
empty and decaying build-ings. it into almost anything.By finding
Many of these can become a new program for one of them,
usable by only a little work. there is a reason for people to
These buildings have char-acter hang out on this industrual part
and make unique spaces.I have of the city which is heterogenic
made a new program in one of and full or surprises.As a further
the empty factories on the development I hope that people
coastal side of the city. The pro- can see the potensial in the old
gram is actually anything from before building something com-
con-serts, markets, exhibition pletely new.

8. MURMANSK EXPRESS
Murmansk has many traintracks. I have made use of
an unused one and turned it into a different kind
travelling for murmansk citizens. It is faster, more
eco-friendly than cars and more fun.
It connects my other interventions in the city.

9. BIRDS NEST
The idea of the birds nest is to incourage people to go out of the city
and and see the surrounding nature and wildlife.
It is mainly a pathway out of the city which ends up on a mountaintop
nearby.The path is easy on the landscape.It can easily change direc-
tion and spread out grains.
The current endstop is a viewpoint where one can look at the city
from afar, with a birds view, without any enormous statues next to
you.