Report: VERKET

How can Ulricehamn’s wastewater treatment plant and the surrounding area be transformed for future needs? The practise-based research project VERKET, in collaboration with Ulricehamn municipality, explores how innovative design and management can improve the use of seemingly outdated resources.

The geography of the project is the Fiskebacken and more specifically the Ulricehamns wastewater treatment plant, built in 1955. The facility has been upgraded over the years but increasing population and increased requirements for treatment make it unsustainable to continue developing the facility. With the municipality’s plans for a new location, conditions are created for a change of the use of the current wastewater treatment plant and the surrounding area.

Through a call, team VERK-SAM was selected to make an inventory, analyze, and develop a management plan containing strategy, method, and design proposals through practical research. The assignment aims to show how the wastewater treatment plant’s structures and the surrounding area can be taken care of and managed to become a resource when the area opens up to a public space.

The inventory and report below are written by team VERK-SAM. The report contains strategies, methods and design proposals for the care and management of the wastewater treatment plant structures and surrounding area. It summarizes a dedicated effort and shows how seemingly outdated resources can be transformed for future needs through interdisciplinary analysis and innovative design.