Housing Development in Stockholm

Issue
10/2019 Hybrid Forms of Construction
Author
Frank Kaltenbach
Source
DETAIL
Task
New construction
Location
Sweden, Stockholm
Architecture
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
A housing block with two faces: to the north and to neighbouring buildings at the side, the dwell-ings are screened off with wooden facades; to the southern park, they are glazed.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
Stepped down to the southern corner of the site, this housing development with 169 dwelling units resembles a natural hill. With an outer skin of cedar boarding, the architecture also adopts the theme of the Gärdets Sports Fields in front of it. The grid dimensions on which the scheme is based are the human scale of a room 3.60 ×...
A housing block with two faces: to the north and to neighbouring buildings at the side, the dwell-ings are screened off with wooden facades; to the southern park, they are glazed.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu