DESCRIPTION
Our project takes the whole of the North/South bike and pedestrian path under examination. The current anonymous path with its asphalt pavement and concrete curb does not provide places that encourage for habitation. At the moment, the path is a pure transit space and lacks any notion of place. At the same time the landscape that the path crosses is and endless park or grass-surface that also contributes very little to creating public encounters. A park in Sweden is of most value to its users during the summer month (June – August) when the University holds its semester break, during the winter months it is of little use for public life. What we are proposing in our project is to turn the North/South connection into an event-promenade.

The asphalt path will be flanked by an urban furniture-band, providing a new kind of public space and generating community life. This furniture is a continuous strip stretching all the way from the Design Center in the North to the South of the Campus. It introduces a human scale along the promenade and is made in wood, a warm material contrasting the existing materials.

DESCRIPTION
This band becomes a recognizable element of the promenade and facilitates the identification of public with public space on the campus. The new furniture will absorb all the functions that are required in public space. It will provide seating, street-lighting, bike-parking, pavement, places to gather, places to work, places to play, places for contemplation, amphitheaters for out-door lectures, sport facilities, protection from wind and weather and much more. This activating strip will work as a catalyzer for collective performance on the campus.

It will turn the current transit space into the vital spine of the LTH. This spine is gathering and linking the squares, buildings and landscape along its stretch and functions as a curator of public space: a "place-maker" for the LTH campus.