Posted June 22, 2026
MARIEVIK+ Transition Lab for Circular and Adaptive Urban Living Environments
MARIEVIK+ is based on a key societal challenge: future urban development must combine environmental performance with social value creation and long-term economic resilience. Buildings are not merely physical structures. They are frameworks for everyday life, relationships, activities, and opportunities for growth over time. The project explores how circular and adaptive solutions can be understood, valued, and implemented in a more...
MARIEVIK+ is based on a key societal challenge: future urban development must combine environmental performance with social value creation and long-term economic resilience. Buildings are not merely physical structures. They are frameworks for everyday life, relationships, activities, and opportunities for growth over time.
The project examines how circular and adaptive solutions can be understood, evaluated, and implemented in a more integrated way. In the digital lab, the project partners are working on reduction roadmaps, data-driven analysis, and future scenarios for buildings and urban environments. In the financial lab, the scenarios are analyzed from an investment and value creation perspective. Selected solutions are then tested in the physical prototype lab in Marievik.
Marievik serves as the project’s primary site for physical prototyping and learning in a real-world urban environment. At the same time, MARIEVIK+ will work with additional urban contexts, building portfolios, and use cases throughout Sweden. By linking climate performance, adaptability, reuse potential, social value creation, and investment logic, MARIEVIK+ aims to contribute to a more resource-efficient and resilient built environment.
The project will also contribute to a broader shift in how buildings and places are planned, developed, and valued—from individual projects and short-term initiatives to long-term living environments that can remain relevant and create value over time.
Three labs—one shared transition process
Financial Lab: Investment logic, valuation models, and decision support that highlight long-term environmental, social, and economic values.
Digital Lab: Scenario analysis, data-driven modeling, and digital tools for understanding the future potential of buildings and sites.
Physical Prototype Lab: Testing circular and adaptive solutions in a real-world urban environment in Marievik.
Partners
Elena Malakhatka – Chalmers Next Labs
Agnieszka Zalejska Jonsson – KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Janica Wiklander, Linda Teng, Alexander Montell – THRIVE REGEN IMPACT
AMF Fastigheter is the project’s key location-based partner in Marievik.
The project also brings together a broader group of partners and stakeholders, including public sector entities, real estate organizations, and suppliers, such as the City of Stockholm, Uppsala Municipality’s School and Care Facilities Division, the City of Gothenburg, MKB Fastighets, Stena Fastigheter, Skanska, Brukspecialisten Sverige, Cemfoam, Evia, Nordnest, Smartax, and Tarkett.
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