Jakriborg

Looks like a beautiful old town but it’s really not that old.

Built in the late 1990, the small village is the living dream of 2 brothers Jan Berggren and Krister Berggren that was designed with the help of 2 architects Robin Manger and Marcus Axelsson.

The name of the town comes the first name of the two brothers Ja from Jan and Kri from Krister.

As I’m passionate about architecture I was delighted to walk through the narrow and short streets of the small village and I have enjoyed taking pictures.

  

The style is a mixture of medieval and pre-industrial architecture and I think the architecture follows the principle of New Urbanism movement because:

• The place has a discernible center
• Most of the dwellings are within a five-minute walk of the center
• At the edge of the neighborhood, there are shops and offices of sufficiently varied types to supply the weekly needs of a household.
• An elementary school is close enough so that most children can walk from their home.
• There are small playgrounds accessible to every dwelling
• Streets within the neighborhood form a connected network, which disperses traffic by providing a variety of pedestrian and vehicular routes to any destination.
• The streets are relatively narrow and shaded by rows of trees. This slows traffic, creating an environment suitable for pedestrians and bicycles.

Just between Lund and Malmo, the small village offers the peace and quite that the almost 500 inhabitants looked for and is still very connected with the major cities.

Julmarknad Jakriborg