This document discusses reimagining public spaces in Rosengård, Sweden. It notes some values that have been lost in Rosengård's public spaces, like community and cultural identity. Due to its isolated location and mass of apartment blocks, it is difficult to experience interactions on a micro scale. The document proposes generating lines of flight in the background to make public life more visible. It contrasts sequential and rhizomatic configurations and their ability to hold activity and connect spaces. Finally, it frames Rosengård as being in a transitional, liminal situation as an enclave susceptible to larger forces.

1. The architectural consequences
-hunting for lines of flight in Rosengård
2. Confrontation
by Roberto Ovalle
part of the group “City in a special challenging condition (liminal situation)”
April 8-9, 2010

2. A POTENTIAL READER’S GUIDE
1. The context and the problem
2. The existing
3. A concept diagram
4. Recombining public life -brainstorm-
5. The site: the transition between full and empty
Epilogue. The 5 common points.

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6. Some of the lost values of public space in Rosengård. Some are more concrete (or architectonic) than others,
but each of these words has a spatial value directly or indirectly related to it, as well as a corresponding
problematique. As an enclave in Sweden (or a foreign exclave, depending on how you see it) Rosengård is par-
ticularly susceptible to macro-scale events, such as wars or global warming.

7. Among the mass of apartment blocks and the emptiness of
open space, it is hard to experience the micro scale in
Rosengård. In view of this situation, person-to-person
interaction becomes necessary in order to articulate the
IN (private space) and OUT (public space) of Rosengård.

8. A
A sequential configu-
ration fails at hold-
ing activity and only
serves as a connect-
ing element.
Linear lines of flight
The void
Function
Go
Rhyzomatic lines of flight
Field of activity
Func
tion
B
A rhyzomatic program-
matic configuration
allows for the for-
mation of knots of
activity, and still
serves as a connector.
Stop

9. Extreme
Cultural
Seclusion
Situation
Identity
Void
Transition
City in a special challenging condition (liminal situation) A common feeling.