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ANNIKA FERNLUND, HUB PARK
The art of combining proven
systems for new solutions.
If you’re passionate about systems in synergy.
When you love to combine proven systems from
different sectors to create completely novel and
better solutions. It’s a bit like when one plus one
equals three. Well, then it’s no wonder that you might
choose to get two university educations and then
continue to cross-fertilise various sectors in your
professional practice.
Annika Fernlund is a mobility strategist and prop-
erty developer at Hub Park, a role that gives her the
opportunity to pursue her passion for new solutions.
And although getting two degrees wasn’t a conscious
strategy when she began studying Civil Engineering
for Roads and Waterways and later continued her
education at the School of Architecture. Her two
lines of study instilled her with ideas and thought
processes that synergise when she strives to find
solutions and systems that did not exist before.
Annika’s master’s thesis at Lund University’s
School of Architecture was a good indication of her
future professional path. Her project proposed con-
necting literature and public transport, bringing the
Stockholm City Library into the metro and vice versa.
It certainly had all the naive idealism of a student
thesis, but the intention – to think in new ways about
old, established systems – was just the beginning of
something more.
“I didn’t get into architecture school the first time areas. Because if you like systems in synergy, it’s no
I applied, so I initially studied civil engineering for
roads and waterways. And in retrospect, that proved
to be a fantastic complement to my architectural
education,” says Annika as she reflects on how things
don’t always turn out the way you planned. But then
they often end up even better.
Earlier in her career, Annika spent several years at
an architectural firm. After that, she spent a few
years as an independent consultant, working largely
with property development. But a few years ago,
Annika took her craze for synergising systems to
the next level when she started working with the
mobility buildings of the future at Parkering Malmö.
The experience, knowledge and desire to be at the
forefront were all there, and Annika was given free
rein to develop ideas and mobility solutions for
Malmö’s parking companies, their facilities and their
service offerings.
“I really enjoyed working at P-Malmö and the pro-
jects we developed. But I felt strongly that I wanted
to be able to apply my ideas to projects throughout
Sweden, and since municipal companies aren’t
allowed to invest outside their own municipality, the
idea of finding something else began to germinate,”
explains Annika about how she ended up at Hub Park.
At Hub Park, Annika works exactly as she wants,
focusing on solutions that maximise the good instead
of minimising the bad. She strives to run her projects
with circular economy and to use them to connect
various systems to create a new and better whole.
These projects offer Hub Park’s customers (munici-
palities and real estate companies) both innovative
mobility solutions and complete energy solutions
for their mobility buildings and the surrounding
wonder that you might connect parking garages in
the city with solar parks in the countryside, or with
new logistics and charging nodes throughout the
urban area. And that approach creates new solutions
and offerings.