Slussplan

Pocket park on the canal

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Slussplan is located along one of Malmö’s important urban links - Östra förstadsgatan - which connects Malmö’s town centre with its eastern district Värnhem. The space’s triangular plot unites one of the City’s tallest residential buildings with the historic Rörsjö Canal via a stairway down to the water’s edge. The urban park design integrates artwork by Malmö Artist David Svensson, whose inspiration from maritime history and aesthetics complements the space greatly.

The triangular park is divided into two parts featuring circular vegetation beds adorned with shrubs and plants on one side and an active urban square on the other. The composition of the square is tied together by the four large Kebony wood sculptures that form seating furnitures. The largest of the furnitures is a wooden stairway by the water that has been rotated to face the sun, inviting people to interact with the water in a way they couldn’t before.