Project Description:

The cultural axis is a historically important part of central Vänersborg that, over the years, became increasingly peripheral and disconnected from city life. Once clear in aesthetics and concept, the site grew unfocused, overgrown, and fractured. Our design to revitalise the park redefines its borders, restores clarity to the axis, and introduces new functions to create a civic meeting place for the city’s inhabitants.

The axis now unfolds as a sequence of renewed spaces, reconnected through unified site furnishings and strengthened visual connections. At its heart lies the market square, redesigned with a level surface and coherent floor pattern that allow flexible use. In the central section, two forest-like blocks merge into a structure that frames the church within a magnificent colonnade, where all sculptures of the axis are collected and displayed. At the far east, the former school site is transformed into an enclosed cultural hub, combining adapted buildings, a new cultural facility, and an inner arboretum.